color

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkʌl.ə(ɹ)/    美 [ˈkʰɐɫ.ɐ]|/ˈkʌl.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The spectral composition of visible light. uncountable
    — Humans and birds can perceive color.
  2. A subset thereof:; A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class. countable
    — Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
  3. A subset thereof:; Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays). uncountable
    — The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
  4. A subset thereof:; These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television). countable,uncountable
    — This film is broadcast in color. Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.
  5. A subset thereof:; Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. countable,uncountable
  6. A paint. countable,uncountable
    — The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
  7. Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity. uncountable
    — Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
  8. Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment. countable,uncountable
  9. A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion. countable,uncountable
    — […] her very embarrassment wore a graceful air; her high colour had softened down to a warm, delicate tint; and her dress, which looked beautifully new and fresh, was in good taste, and showed her off to advantage.
  10. Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — color commentator
  11. A standard, flag, or insignia:; A standard or banner. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
  12. A standard, flag, or insignia:; The flag of a nation or team. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — The colors were raised over the new territory.
  13. A standard, flag, or insignia:; Gang insignia. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
  14. An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — He was awarded colors for his football.
  15. The morning ceremony of raising the flag. countable,in-plural,uncountable
  16. A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge. countable,uncountable
  17. A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price. uncountable
  18. The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ) countable,uncountable
  19. Any of the colored balls excluding the reds. countable,uncountable
  20. A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext. countable,uncountable
    — At the far end of the continuum, Roger Seagraves collected personal items from people he'd murdered, or assassinated rather, since he'd done it under the color of serving his country.
  21. An appearance of right or authority; color of law. countable,uncountable
    — Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
  22. Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting. countable,uncountable
    — He smelted Wells’s colour before it was valued, and by the time anybody saw it, it had been poured into bars and stamped with the Reserve seal.
  23. To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usually prefaced with "get". countable,slang,uncountable
    — The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle.
  24. Timbre, often in relation to orchestration. countable,uncountable
    — In other words, Brahms saves the higher violin color for the more important foreground statement and assigns the soft swirling background to middle-register violins and violas, while the cellos dominate in their best voice.
  25. The quality of a particular vowel sound. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To give something color. US,transitive
    — We could color the walls red.
  2. To give something color.; To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking. US,transitive
  3. To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. US,intransitive
    — My kindergartener loves to color.
  4. To become red through increased blood flow. US
    — Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
  5. To affect without completely changing. US
    — That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
  6. To attribute a quality to; to portray (as). US,informal
    — Color me confused.
  7. To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color. US
    — Can this graph be 2-colored?
  8. To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel. US,usually
    — Many languages have a "neutral", roughly central vowel like /a/ or /ə/ which can be colored to a back, rounded vowel like [o] by an adjacent labialized consonant, or to a front, unrounded vowel like [e] by an adjacent palatalized consonant.
形容词 adj.
  1. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray. US,not-comparable
    — Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.

词形变化

colors plural colour alternative,Commonwealth,Ireland usage notes alternative colour alternative,Commonwealth,Ireland usage notes alternative colors present,singular,third-person coloring participle,present colored participle,past colored past colour alternative,Commonwealth,Ireland usage notes alternative

词汇关系

近义词
blee color hue shade tincture tint
反义词
decolor
上位词
physical property
下位词
accidental color bodycolor color of law deep color eye color forecolor high color hypercolor local color noncolor primary color prismatic colors process color pseudocolor secondary color skin color tertiary color topcolor true color true colors undercolor watercolor web color black white red green blue yellow orange brown pink purple violet scarlet magenta coffee color in discolor miscolor overcolor precolor recolor
衍生词
anticolor bicolor bodycolor coat color dilution lethal colorability color analyst color announcer color banding color bar color barrier color bass colorbearer colorblind color-blind color blind color blindness colorbreed colorburst colorcast color center color charge color-code color code color-coded color coded color commentator color compass color confinement color constancy color-coordinate color coordinate color coordinate system color coordination color depth color fade colorfast colorfastness color field color-flavor color-flavor locking color font color force colorful color grading color guard color-guard coloriferous colorification Colorify colorimeter colorimetry colorine colorisation colorise coloriser colorism colorist coloristic colorization colorize colorizer color killer colorless color line colormaker colormaking colorman color man colormap color me color model color-octet color of authority color of law color of office color of someone's money color of title colorogenic colorologist colorology coloron colorous color pencil colorphobia colorphobic color photography color pigeon color pop color-proud color proud colorpuncture color revolution color-screw color screw color separation colorsome color space color story color-struck color television color temperature color timing color triangle color TV colortype color war color wash colorway color wheel colorwise colorwork complementary color discoloration duocolor false-color Finlaycolor flame-color flesh-colored flying colors forecolor four color four color problem four color theorem full color give color to grapheme-color haircolor horse of a different color hyperbolic color hypercolor impossible color in color in flying colors in living color intercolor lend color to lip color monocolor multicolor multicolored multicolors noncolor of color off-color pair of colors pentacolor person of color play of color poster color prismatic colors pseudocolor quadricolor quincolor rainbow color rainbow-colored real-color show one's true colors spot color sulfur-color Technicolor technicolored The Color Purple tone color topcolor Tricolor troop the color true-color true colors turn one's color type color uncolor undercolor unicolor unicolored watercolor wax-color what color is the sun in your world what color is your Bugatti with flying colors colored discolor colorable colorate color by number color by numbers colorer color in color inside the lines color outside the lines color up decolor miscolor overcolor precolor R-colored vowel recolor
相关词
:Category:Colors Appendix:Colors colorably coloration tincture

词源

词源 1
From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur.
Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense.
The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).
词源 2
From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur.
Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense.
The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).
词源 3
From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur.
Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense.
The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).
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