color meaning

• Noun: color  kúlur
  Usage: US (=colour)
  
  1. A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
     "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
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  Verb: color  kúlur
  Usage: US (=colour)
  
  1. Add color to
     "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"
     - colorize [US], colorise [Brit], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn], colour [Brit, Cdn], color in [US], colour in [Brit, Cdn] 
  2. Affect as in thought or feeling
     "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"
     - tinge, colour [Brit, Cdn], distort 
  3. Modify or bias
     "His political ideas color his lectures"
     - colour [Brit, Cdn] 
  4. Decorate with colors
     "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
     - colour [Brit, Cdn], emblazon 
  5. Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
     "color a lie"
     - colour [Brit, Cdn], gloss 
  6. Change color, often in an undesired manner
     - discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], colour [Brit, Cdn]
  Adjective: color  kúlur
  Usage: US (=colour)
  
  1. Having or capable of producing colors
     "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
     - colour [Brit, Cdn]

  Derived forms: coloring, colored, colors

  See also: chromatic, coloration, colored [US], colorful [US], coloring [US], colorist [US], colorless [US], coloured [Brit, Cdn], colourful [Brit, Cdn], colourless [Brit, Cdn], uncolored [US], uncoloured [Brit, Cdn]

  Type of: act upon, adorn, affect, alter, apologise [Brit], apologize, appearance, bear on, bear upon, beautify, change, decorate, embellish, excuse, form, grace, impact, influence, interest, interestingness, justify, kind, material, modify, ornament, quality, race, rationalise [Brit], rationalize, sort, stuff, timber, timbre, tone, touch, touch on, variety, visual aspect, visual property, work

  Antonym: black-and-white, colorlessness [US], discolor [US]

  Encyclopedia: Color

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  [Law]
  A wrong committed by an officer under the pretended authority of his office; in some cases the act amounts to a misdemeanor, and the party may then be indicted. In other cases, the remedy to redress the wrong is by an action. For example Section 1983, et sec. civil rights actions often include allegations that the defendants were acting under color of state law.
  
  Pleading. It is of two kinds, namely, express color and implied color.
  
  Express Color. This is defined to be a feigned matter, pleaded by the defendant, in an action of trespass, from which the plaintiff seems to have a good cause of action, whereas he has in truth only an appearance or color of cause. The practice of giving express color in pleas, obtained in the mixed actions of assize, the writ of entry in the nature of assize, as well as in the personal action of trespass.
  
  It is a general rule in pleading that no man shall be allowed to plead specially such plea as amounts to the general issue, or a total denial of the charges contained in the declaration and must in such cases plead the general issue in terms by which the whole question is referred to the jury; yet, if the defendant in an action of trespass be desirous to refer the validity of his title to the court, rather than to the jury, he may in his plea stated his title specially, by expressly giving color of title to the plaintiff, or supposing him to have an appearance of title had indeed in point of law, but of which the jury are not competent judges.
  
  Suppose, for example, that the plaintiff was in wrongful possession of the close, without any further appearance of title than the possession itself, at the time of the trespass alleged, and that the defendants entered upon him in assertion of their title; but being unable to set forth this title in the pleading in consequence of the objection that would arise for want of color, are driven to plead the general issue of not guilty.
  
  By this plea an issue is produced whether the defendants are guilty or not of the trespass; but upon the trial of the issue, it will be found that the question turns entirely upon a construction of law. The defendants say they are not guilty of the trespasses because they are not guilty of breaking the close of the plaintiff as alleged in the declaration; and that they are not guilty of breaking the close of the plaintiff because they themselves had the property in that close; and their title is this; that the father of one of the defendants being seised of the close in fee, gave it in tail to his eldest son, remainder in tail to one of the defendants; the eldest son was disseised, but made continual claim till the death of the disseisor; after whose death, the descent being cast upon the heir, the disseisee entered upon the heir and afterwards died, when the remainder took effect in the said defendant who demised to the other defendant.
  
  Now, this title involves a legal question; namely, whether continual claim will no preserve the right of entry in the disseisee, notwithstanding a descent cast on the heir of the disseisor. The issue however is merely not guilty, and this is triable by jury; and the effect, therefore, would be that a jury would have to decide this question of law, subject to the direction upon it which they would receive from the court. But let it be supposed that the defendants, in a view to the more satisfactory decision of the question, wish to bring it under the consideration of the court in bank rather than have it referred to a jury. If they have any means of setting forth their title specially in the plea the object will be attained; for then the plaintiff, if disposed to question the sufficiently of the title, may demur to the plea and thus refer the question to the decision of the judges. But such plea if pleaded simply, according to the state of the fact, would be informal for want of color and hence arises a difficulty.
  
  The pleaders of former days contrived to overcome this difficulty in the following singular manner. In such case as that supposed, the plea wanting implied color, they gave in lieu of it an express one by inserting a fictitious allegation of some colorable title in the plaintiff which they at the same time avoided by the preferable title of the defendant.
  
  Formerly various suggestions of apparent right might be adopted according to the fancy of the pleader; and though the same latitude is, perhaps, still available, yet, in practice it is unusual to resort to any except certain known fictions which long usage has applied to the particular case. E.g., in trespass to land, the color universally given is that of a defective charter of the demise.
  
  Implied Color. That in pleading which admits by implication, an apparent right in the opposite party, and avoids it by pleading some new matter by which that apparent right is defeated.
  
  It is a rule that every pleading by way of confession and avoidance must give color; that is, it must admit an apparent right in the opposite party and therefore rely on some new matter by which that apparent right is defeated. For example, where the defendant pleads a release to an action for breach of covenant the tendency of the plea is to admit an apparent right in the plaintiff, namely that the defendant did, as alleged in the declaration, execute the deed and break the covenant therein contained and would therefore, prima facie, be liable on that ground; but shows new matter not before disclosed by which that apparent right is done away, namely that the plaintiff executed to him a release.
  
  Again, if the plaintiff reply that such release was obtained by duress in his replication, he impliedly admits that the defendant has, prima facie, a good defence, namely that such release was executed as alleged in the plea; and that the defefadant therefore would be discharged; but relies on new matter by which the plea is avoided, namely that the release was obtained by duress. Therefore, the plea in this case gives color to the declaration, and the replication to the plea. But let it be supposed that the plaintiff has replied that the release was executed by him, but to another person and not to the defendant; this would be an informal replication wanting color because, if the release were not to the defendant there would not exist even an apparent defence requiring the allegation of new matter to avoid it, and the plea might be sufficiently answered by a traverse denying that the deed stated in the plea is the deed of the plaintiff.
     
  
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  [Medicine]
  or chiefly Brit col·our n
  1
  a : a phenomenon of light (as red, brown, pink, or gray) or visual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise identical objects
  b : the aspect of objects and light sources that may be described in terms of hue, lightness, and saturation for objects and hue, brightness, and saturation for light sources
  c : a hue as contrasted with black, white, or gray
  2 : complexion tint; esp : the tint characteristic of good health — color or chiefly Brit colour adj
  
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  [Computer]
  <graphics> (US "color") Colours are usually represented as RGB triples in a digital image because this corresponds most closely to the electronic signals needed to drive a CRT. Several equivalent systems ("colour models") exist, e.g. HSB. A colour image may be stored as three separate images, one for each of red, green, and blue, or each pixel may encode the colour using separate bit-fields for each colour component, or each pixel may store a logical colour number which is looked up in a hardware colour palette to find the colour to display.
  
  Printers may use the CMYK or Pantone representations of colours as well as RGB.

• The colors used are flat and unvaried.
• You poor man. you've got a splendid color.
• Her color came and went as she listened.
• At twilight, the sky was suffused with color.
• Try to wear a color that is less obtrusive.
• I did n't observe the colors of her eyes.
• The color of red grapes is in the skin.
• The producer made a telling use of color.
• The color of the big-jawed face was high.
• She saw the flash of color again.

• "color" meaning in Chinese: 〔美国〕＝〔英国〕 colour。 n. 1.颜色，色彩；色调；着色；色素，颜料，染料；〔pl.〕 图画颜料。2.脸...
• "color" meaning in Japanese: １color, 《英》 colour n. (1) 色, 色彩; 色合; 絵の具; 血色; 紅潮; 本当らしさ, 見...
• "color" meaning in Russian: 1) _ам. = colour
• "color" meaning in French: n. couleur, ton v. colorer, colorier; fausser