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COLOURING
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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 ("colouring" 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 "colouring"):
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:
colour (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 ("colouring" 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 "colouring"):
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:
colour (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 ("colouring" is a kind of...):
food product; foodstuff (a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food)
Derivation:
colour (add color to)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb colour
Context examples:
You are too kind, said Fanny, colouring at such praise; how shall I ever thank you as I ought, for thinking so well of me.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“If you believed it impossible to be true,” said Elizabeth, colouring with astonishment and disdain, “I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far. What could your ladyship propose by it?”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"I do not understand you," replied he, colouring.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I had often heard of the beauty of the youngest daughter of the Duke of Belminster, but no description of it, and no contemplation of colourless photographs, had prepared me for the subtle, delicate charm and the beautiful colouring of that exquisite head.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was not to be doubted that poor Harriet's attachment had been an offering to conjugal unreserve, and her own share in the story, under a colouring the least favourable to her and the most soothing to him, had in all likelihood been given also.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I felt the consecration of its loneliness: my eye feasted on the outline of swell and sweep—on the wild colouring communicated to ridge and dell by moss, by heath-bell, by flower-sprinkled turf, by brilliant bracken, and mellow granite crag.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“I do indeed,” replied Elizabeth, colouring.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Perhaps Fanny thought for a moment that her mother had been quite rude enough,—for, colouring a little, she immediately said, "They are very pretty, ma'am—an't they?"
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I have, returned Elinor, colouring likewise, and hardening her heart anew against any compassion for him, I have heard it all.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
