Quotes about "color"

• Noun: a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; example: "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"

• Noun: interest and variety and intensity; examples: "the Puritan Period was lacking in color", "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"

• Noun: the timbre of a musical sound; example: "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"

• Noun: a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)

• Noun: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; examples: "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity", "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction", "the situation soon took on a different color"

• Noun: any material used for its color; example: "she used a different color for the trim"

• Noun: (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors

• Noun: the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation

• Verb: add color to; examples: "The child colored the drawings", "Fall colored the trees", "colorize black and white film"

• Verb: affect as in thought or feeling; examples: "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case", "The sadness tinged his life"

• Verb: modify or bias; example: "His political ideas color his lectures"

• Verb: decorate with colors; example: "color the walls with paint in warm tones"

• Verb: gloss or excuse; example: "color a lie"

• Verb: change color, often in an undesired manner; example: "The shirts discolored"

• Adj: having or capable of producing colors; examples: "color film", "he rented a color television", "marvelous color illustrations"