contrast | the act of distinguishing by comparing differences |
color television colour television color television system colour television system color TV colour TV | a television that transmits images in color |
color tube colour tube color television tube colour television tube color TV tube colour TV tube | a television tube that displays images in full color |
color wash colour wash | a wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment |
oil oil color oil colour | oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist |
tempera poster paint poster color poster colour | pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk |
color colour | the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation |
semblance gloss color colour | an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading, he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity, he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction, the situation soon took on a different color |
color of law colour of law | a mere semblance of legal right, something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law, the plaintiff claimed that under color of law the officer had deprived him of his civil rights |
color colour coloring colouring | a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect, a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light |
primary color primary colour | any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing |
primary color for pigments primary colour for pigments | any of three pigments from which all colors can be obtained by mixing, the primary colors for pigments are red, blue, and yellow |
primary color for light primary colour for light | any of three primary colors of light from which all colors can be obtained by additive mixing, the primary colors for light are red, blue, and green |
primary subtractive color for light primary subtractive colour for light | any of the three colors that give the primary colors for light after subtraction from white light, the primary subtractive colors for light are magenta, cyan, and yellow |
chromatic color chromatic colour spectral color spectral colour | a color that has hue |
achromatic color achromatic colour | a color lacking hue, white or grey or black |
complexion skin color skin colour | the coloring of a person's face |
nonsolid color nonsolid colour dithered color dithered colour | a color produced by a pattern of differently colored dots that together simulate the desired color |
color colour coloration colouration | the timbre of a musical sound, the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music |
contrast | the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness) |
color colour vividness | interest and variety and intensity, the Puritan Period was lacking in color, the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness |
color bar colour bar color line colour line Jim Crow | barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites |
color constancy colour constancy | the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions |
contrast | the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors |
line dividing line demarcation contrast | a conceptual separation or distinction, there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity |
color colour | (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction, each flavor of quarks comes in three colors |
colour supplement | (British) a magazine that is printed in color and circulated with a newspaper (especially on weekends) |
coloring colouring food coloring food colouring food color food colour | a digestible substance used to give color to food, food color made from vegetable dyes |
color scheme colour scheme | a planned combination of colors, the color scheme for this room was determined by an interior decorator |
color colour people of color people of colour | a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) |
person of color person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person |
contrast direct contrast | the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared, in contrast to, by contrast |
color blindness colour blindness color vision deficiency colour vision deficiency | genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue |
red-green dichromacy red-green color blindness red-green colour blindness | confusion of red and green |
basic dye basic color basic colour | a dye that is considered to be a base because the chromophore is part of a positive ion |
contrast medium contrast material | a substance that is opaque to xays, when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills |
coloring material colouring material color colour | any material used for its color, she used a different color for the trim |
discolor discolour colour color | change color, often in an undesired manner, The shirts discolored |
color colorize colorise colourise colourize colour color in colour in | add color to, The child colored the drawings, Fall colored the trees, colorize black and white film |
contrast | put in opposition to show or emphasize differences, The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student |
tinge d color colour distort | affect as in thought or feeling, My personal feelings color my judgment in this case, The sadness tinged his life |
color colour gloss | give a deceptive explanation or excuse for, color a lie |
color colour emblazon | decorate with colors, color the walls with paint in warm tones |
color colour | modify or bias, His political ideas color his lectures |
contrast counterpoint | to show differences when compared, be different, the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities |
color-blind colour-blind nonracist | unprejudiced about race |
color colour | having or capable of producing colors, color film, he rented a color television, marvelous color illustrations |
s motley calico multicolor multi-color multicolour multi-colour multicolored multi-colored multicoloured multi-coloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured | having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly, a jester dressed in motley, the painted desert, a particolored dress, a piebald horse, pied daisies |
color-blind colour-blind | unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors |
indelicate off-color off-colour | in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent, an indelicate remark, an off-color joke |