Meaning of COLORING
| Pronunciation: | | 'kuluring
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- [n] the act or process of changing the color of something
- [n] 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"
- [n] a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes"
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| | Synonyms: | | color, colour, colouring, colouring, colouring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring |
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| | Antonyms: | | achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness | | |
| | See Also: | | achromatic color, achromatic colour, change of color, chromatic color, chromatic colour, coloration, colouration, complexion, dithered color, dithered colour, dyeing, food product, foodstuff, hair coloring, heather, heather mixture, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, shade, skin color, skin colour, spectral color, spectral colour, tincture, tint, tinting, tone, visual property | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Col"or*ing\, n.
1. The act of applying color to; also, that which produces
color.
2. Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance;
show; disguise; misrepresentation.
Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss.
--Compton
Reade.
{Dead coloring}. See under {Dead}.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstractionism, achromatism, acrylic painting, acting, affectation, affective meaning, appearance, attitudinizing, bearing, bloom, bluff, bluffing, blush, blushing, cast, cheating, chromatic, chromatism, chromism, chromogen, clang color, coat, coat of paint, coating, cold, color, color balance, color filter, color gelatin, color harmony, color printing, color scheme, colorant, coloration, colorific, coloring, complexion, confabulation, connotation, consequence, cool, crimsoning, dead-color, deception, decorator color, deformation, delusion, denotation, dichromatic, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, distemper, distortion, drier, drift, dye, dyeing, dyestuff, effect, embellishment, emblazonry, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, equivocation, erubescent, essence, exaggeration, expressionism, extension, exterior paint, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false coloring, false front, false show, false swearing, falsification, falsifying, falsity, feigning, feint, finger painting, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, flower painting, flush, flushing, force, four-flushing, fraud, fresco painting, front, garbling, genre painting, gilt, gist, gloss, glow, glowing, gouache, grammatical meaning, grisaille, ground, guise, harmonious, hectic, hectic flush, hue, humbug, humbuggery, hyperbole, idea, illumination, illustration, impact, impasto, implication, import, imposture, inaccuracy, injustice, intension, interior paint, key, Klangfarbe, lexical meaning, literal meaning, lithography, litotes, mantling, many-colored, masquerade, matching, meaning, medium, medley, meretriciousness, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, mural painting, natural color, nonrealism, oil painting, opaque color, ostentation, outward show, overdrawing, overstatement, overtone, paint, painting, pallor, parti-colored, perjury, pertinence, perversion, picturization, pigment, pigmentary, pigmentation, pith, playacting, point, polychromatic, portraiture, pose, posing, poster painting, posture, practical consequence, pretense, pretension, pretext, prevarication, prime coat, primer, priming, prismatic, pudency, pudicity, purport, put-on, rainbow, range of meaning, real meaning, reddening, reference, referent, relation, relevance, representation, rubefacient, rubescence, rubescent, rubificative, rufescence, scope, seeming, semantic cluster, semantic field, semblance, sense, shade, sham, show, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, simulacrum, simulation, skin color, slanting, span of meaning, speciousness, spectral, spirit, stain, staining, straining, structural meaning, substance, suffusion, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tempera, tenor, the brush, thinner, timbre, tinct, tinction, tinctorial, tincture, tinge, tingent, tinging, tint, tinting, tonality, tone, tone color, tone quality, toning, totality of associations, transferred meaning, transparent color, turpentine, turps, twisting, unadorned meaning, undercoat, undercoating, undercolor, understatement, undertone, value, variegated, varnish, vehicle, warm, wash, wash coat, wash drawing, window dressing |
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