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Colorized vs Colonized - What's the difference?

colorized | colonized |

As verbs the difference between colorized and colonized

is that colorized is past tense of colorize while colonized is past tense of colonize.

colorized

English

Verb

(head)
  • (colorize)

    • colorize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * colourise (UK) * colourize (UK) * colorise

    Verb

    (coloriz)
  • (US) To add color to.
    • The child colorized the drawing.
    The woman colorized her hair.
  • (US, photography, filmology) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects).
    • There is a colorized version of Casablanca.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=August 26, author=, title=Looking for America, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=What we see are beautiful overlapping NASA satellite photographs of the American mainland,

    Synonyms

    * (to add color to) color (colour), color in (colour in)

    Antonyms

    * (to change or lose color) discolor (discolour)

    Derived terms

    * colorization (colourisation) * colorizer (colouriser)

    colonized

    English

    Alternative forms

    *colonised (UK )

    Verb

    (head)
  • (colonize)

    • colonize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * colonise (UK )

    Verb

    (coloniz)
  • (American spelling)
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2003, page 509:
    • The administration finally sent a naval vessel to return the 368 survivors to the United States in 1864. This ended official efforts to colonize blacks.

    Related terms

    * colonial * colonialism * colonist * colony ----