Colour vs Sun - What's the difference?
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(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.
The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998
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, title= (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
The light and warmth which is received from the sun.
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Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001
* Bible, Psalms lxxiv. 11
* Eikon Basilike
(chiefly, literary) Sunrise or sunset.
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*:whilst many an hunger-starved poor creature pines in the street, wants clothes to cover him, labours hard all day long, runs, rides for a trifle, fights peradventure from sun' to ' sun , sick and ill, weary, full of pain and grief, is in great distress and sorrow of heart.
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To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.
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, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.}}
To warm or dry in the sunshine.
To be exposed to the sun.
To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
As a noun colour
is (lb) the spectral composition of visible light.As an adjective colour
is conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.As a verb colour
is to give something colour.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 ----sun
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Alternative forms
* (sense) (capitalized) SunProper 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.}}
Usage notes
* The Sun is traditionally regarded as masculine.Noun
(en noun)- Lambs that did frisk in the sun .
- For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
- I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity.