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COLORING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act or process of changing the color of something
Synonyms:
coloring; colouring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("coloring" is a kind of...):
change of color (an act that changes the light that something reflects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coloring"):
tinting (the act of adding a tinge of color)
hair coloring (the act of dyeing or tinting one's hair)
dyeing (the use of dye to change the color of something permanently)
Derivation:
color (change color, often in an undesired manner)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
Example:
a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light
Synonyms:
color; coloring; colour; colouring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("coloring" is a kind of...):
visual property (an attribute of vision)
Attribute:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
uncolored; uncoloured (without color)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coloring"):
primary color; primary colour (any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing)
heather; heather mixture (interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color)
mottle (an irregular arrangement of patches of color)
shade; tincture; tint; tone (a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color)
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)
coloration; colouration (appearance with regard to color)
complexion; skin color; skin colour (the coloring of a person's face)
dithered color; dithered colour; nonsolid color; nonsolid colour (a color produced by a pattern of differently colored dots that together simulate the desired color)
Derivation:
color (add color to)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A digestible substance used to give color to food
Example:
food color made from vegetable dyes
Synonyms:
coloring; colouring; food color; food coloring; food colour; food colouring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("coloring" is a kind of...):
food product; foodstuff (a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food)
Derivation:
color (add color to)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb color
Context examples:
The more complex molecules continue to combine and grow until they become small particles; volatile gases condense and coat their surfaces with ice frost before they have time to fall through the atmosphere to the surface, where they add to Pluto’s red coloring.
(New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto, NASA)
That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips,—all the stigmata of passion were there.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
