Colour vs Sense - What's the difference?
colour | sense | Synonyms |
(lb) The spectral composition of visible light.
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(lb) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
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, title= (lb) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
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(lb) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
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(lb) Interest, especially in a selective area.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour ) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
(lb) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
(lb) A standard or banner.
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The system of colour television.
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(lb) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
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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.
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(lb) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
(lb) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
(lb) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
A front or : an ostensible truth actually false.
An appearance of right or authority.
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(lb) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
To give something colour.
To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured 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 colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same colour.
(senseid) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
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(senseid)Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Philip Sidney)
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(senseid)Sound practical or moral judgment.
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(senseid)The meaning, reason, or value of something.
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(senseid)A natural appreciation or ability.
(senseid)(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
(senseid)(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
(senseid) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
To instinctively be aware.
To comprehend.
In mathematics terms the difference between colour and sense
is that colour is to assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same colour while sense is (math: direction of rotation) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.As nouns the difference between colour and sense
is that colour is the spectral composition of visible light while sense is (manner to perceive) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.As verbs the difference between colour and sense
is that colour is to give something colour while sense is to use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.As an adjective colour
is conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.colour
English
(Color) {{ picdic , image=Color circle (hue-sat).png , width=310 , labels= , detail1=Click on labels in the image }} Alternative forms * color (US) (see the below)Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
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
* colour-blind * colour charge * colour code * colour commentator * coloured * colourful * colour of fire * flame-colour * colourimeter * colourise * colourism * colourless * colours * discoloration * in colour * off-colour * prismatic colours * true coloursAdjective
(-)- Colour television and films were considered a great improvement over black and white.
Verb
(en verb)- We could colour the walls red.
- My kindergartener loves to colour .
- ''Her face coloured as she realised her mistake.
- That interpretation certainly colours my perception of the book.
- Colour me confused.
- Can this graph be two-coloured ?
- You can colour any map with four colours.
Synonyms
* (give something colour) dye, paint, stain, shade, tinge, tint * (apply colours within boundaries of a line drawing) * blush * (affect without completely changing) affect, influence * (attribute a quality to) callDerived terms
* colour by numbersSee also
* tincture *External links
* * (Colors)Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----sense
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
- What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
- a sense of security
- this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
- high disdain from sense of injured merit
- It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
- Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
- You don’t make any sense .
- the true sense of words or phrases
- So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense .
- I think 'twas in another sense .
- A keen musical sense
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* sense of smell (see olfaction) * (l)See also
* business sense * common sense * sixth sense * sight / vision * hearing / audition * taste / gustation * smell / olfaction * touch / tactition * thermoception * nociception * equilibrioception * proprioceptionVerb
(sens)- She immediately sensed her disdain.