Color vs Bay - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light
(countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
(uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
(uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
(figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
(heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
(in the plural) A standard or banner.
The system of color television.
(in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.
(physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
(typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
(snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
* (also needs better-worded definition)
An appearance of right or authority.
(medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
To give something color.
To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
(of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
To affect without completely changing.
(informal) To attribute a quality to.
(mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color.
(obsolete) A berry.
, a shrub of the family Lauraceae , having dark green leaves and berries.
The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
The leaf of this or certain other species of shrub, used as a herb.
* Trumbull
(US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
A kind of mahogany obtained from (Campeche) in Mexico.
(geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
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, title= A bank or dam to keep back water.
An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
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, title= The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
(nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
(rail transport) A bay platform.
Shortened form of bay window.
The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
(by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
(figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
* (rfdate) I. Taylor
To howl.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
A horse of this color.
As nouns the difference between color and bay
is that color is (uncountable) the spectral composition of visible light while bay is (obsolete) a berry or bay can be (geography) a body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land or bay can be an opening in a wall, especially between two columns or bay can be the excited barking of dogs when hunting or being attacked or bay can be a brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.As adjectives the difference between color and bay
is that color is conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray while bay is of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).As verbs the difference between color and bay
is that color is to give something color while bay is to bark.color
English
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* colour (see the below)Noun
- Humans and birds can perceive color .
- Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
- He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all color ".
- Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
- a bit of local color
- The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
- This film is broadcast in color .
- He was awarded colors for his football.
- Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
- Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
Usage notes
The late (etyl) colour'', which is the standard UK spelling, has been the usual spelling in Britain since the 14th century and was chosen by (1828), along with favor, honor, etc., and is currently the standard US spelling. In Canada, colour'' is preferred, but ''color'' is not unknown; in Australia, ''-our'' endings are the standard, although ''-or'' endings had some currency in the past and are still sporadically found in some regions. In New Zealand, ''-our endings are the standard.Synonyms
* (spectral composition of visible light) blee * (particular set named as a class) blee, hue * hue, shade, blee * (human skin tone as an indicator of race or ethnicity) colour of one’s skin, complexion, blee, ethnicity, race * interest * (dark tincture) stain * (standard or banner) banner, standard * (colour television) colour televisionDerived terms
* color-blind * color charge * color code * color commentator * colored * colorful * color of fire * flame-color * colorimeter * colorize * colorism * colorless * colors * discoloration * in color * off-color * prismatic colors * true colorsAdjective
(-) (US)- Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
Verb
(en-verb) (US)- We could color the walls red.
- My kindergartener loves to color .
- ''Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
- That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
- Color me confused.
- Can this graph be two-colored ?
- You can color any map with four colors.
Synonyms
* (give something color) dye, paint, stain, shade, tinge, tint * (apply colors within boundaries of a line drawing) * blush * (affect without completely changing) affect, influence * (attribute a quality to) callDerived terms
* color by numbersSee also
* tincture *External links
* * (Colors) ----bay
English
(wikipedia bay)Etymology 1
From (etyl) baye, baie, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes .
- The patriot's honours and the poet's bays .
Synonyms
* bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurelDerived terms
* bayberry * bay laurel * bay leaf * bay rum * bay rum tree * bay tree * red bay * sweet bayEtymology 2
From (etyl) baie, from baia.Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
Synonyms
* (body of water) gulfDerived terms
* California bayEtymology 3
From (etyl) baie, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
Derived terms
* bay platform * bay window * bomb bay * buggy bay * loading bayEtymology 4
From (etyl) bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form (etyl) baier, abaier.Noun
(en noun)- Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay .
- The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.
Derived terms
* at bayVerb
(en verb)- The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed .
- to bay the bear
- (Shakespeare)