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Color vs Picture - What's the difference?

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Color is a related term of picture.


In lang=en terms the difference between color and picture

is that color is to apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons while picture is to depict.

As nouns the difference between color and picture

is that color is (uncountable) the spectral composition of visible light while picture is a representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.

As verbs the difference between color and picture

is that color is to give something color while picture is to represent in or with a picture.

As an adjective color

is conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

color

English

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Alternative forms

* colour (see the below)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light
  • Humans and birds can perceive color .
  • (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
  • Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
  • (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
  • He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all color ".
  • (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  • Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
  • (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
  • a bit of local color
  • (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 loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
  • The system of color television.
  • This film is broadcast in color .
  • (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  • He was awarded colors for his football.
  • 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.
  • Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
  • (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.
  • Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
  • (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
  • 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 television

    Derived 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 colors

    Adjective

    (-) (US)
  • Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
  • Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.

    Verb

    (en-verb) (US)
  • To give something color.
  • We could color the walls red.
  • To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
  • My kindergartener loves to color .
  • (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
  • ''Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
  • To affect without completely changing.
  • That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
  • (informal) To attribute a quality to.
  • Color me confused.
  • (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.
  • 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) call

    Derived terms

    * color by numbers

    See also

    * tincture *

    picture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author= , volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(w) , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • An image; a representation as in the imagination.
  • *(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • *:My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture . I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • *2007 , The Workers' Republic
  • *:Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up a picture' of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him.
  • A painting.
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  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=3 citation , passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures , mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
  • A photograph.
  • :
  • (label) A motion picture.
  • :
  • ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
  • :
  • A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
  • :
  • The art of painting; representation by painting.
  • *Sir (Henry Wotton) (1568-1639)
  • *:any well-expressed imageeither in picture or sculpture
  • A figure; a model.
  • *(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)
  • *:the young king's picture in virgin wax
  • Synonyms

    * (representation as in the imagination) image

    Derived terms

    * out of the picture * picture-perfect * picture postcard * (as) pretty as a picture * the big picture * picturesque * picture framing

    Verb

    (pictur)
  • To represent in or with a picture.
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  • To imagine or envision.
  • * 1967 , ,
  • Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,
  • To depict.
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    See also

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    Anagrams

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    Noun

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