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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
visual aphasia
alexia
word blindness | inability to perceive written words |
blindness
sightlessness
cecity | the state of being blind or lacking sight |
| legal blindness | vision that is
or worse in both eyes (
vision is the ability to see atfeet what a normal eye can see at feet) |
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 |
deuteranopia
Daltonism
green-blindness | dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplished |
protanopia
red-blindness | dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue |
yellow-blue dichromacy
yellow-blue color blindness | confusion of yellow and blue |
tetartanopia
yellow-blindness | a form of dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to yellow light, so rare that its existence has been questioned |
tritanopia
blue-blindness | rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow |
moon blindness
mooneye | recurrent eye inflammation in horses, sometimes resulting in blindness |
onchocerciasis
river blindness | infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas, when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness, common in Africa and tropical America |
hemeralopia
day blindness | inability to see clearly in bright light |
nyctalopia
night blindness
moon blindness | inability to see clearly in dim light, due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder |
snowblindness
snow-blindness | temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice |
| figural blindness | inability to see shapes and contours |
basic dye
basic color
basic colour | a dye that is considered to be a base because the chromophore is part of a positive ion |
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 |
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 |