Word Finder - colored

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To give something color.

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We could color the walls red.

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• dye
• paint
• shade
• stain
• tinge
• tint

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To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.

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My kindergartener loves to color.

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• color in

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(of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.

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Her face colored as she realized her mistake.

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• blush

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To affect without completely changing.

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That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.

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• affect
• influence

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To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).

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Color me confused.

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• call

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To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.

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Can this graph be 2-colored?

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A colored person.

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(laundry) A colored article of clothing.

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Having a color.

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Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.

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Having a particular color or kind of color.

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The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.

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Having prominent colors; colorful.

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The singer wore a colored shirt.

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Influenced pervasively but subtly.

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My opinions are colored by my upbringing.

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Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.

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Of neither black nor white skin color.

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Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.

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Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

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a colored drinking fountain

Tables were covered with white linen table cloths and adorned with violet colored napkins inside light gray napkin holders.

His turquoise eyes stood out against his caramel- colored Oriental features.

As the group approached the area, climbers could be seen, bright colored flies tacked on a wall of ice.

Take off the rose colored glasses—'my sins will continue'—or better yet, wait until you decipher a few more pages and she gives it to you in black and white, chapter and verse and supplies the sinful details.

Yes, I've never colored my hair.

Samantha stood at 5'10 with caramel colored skin and curly jet-black hair that fell to the middle of her back.

A soft moan sounding nothing like her reached his ears, and then slowly, out from under the cover, emerged a huge wolf with bronze colored fur.

The kid had been cleaned and its copper colored fur was still damp.

She placed a bouquet of brightly colored flowers on the table.

Josh vaulted the fence and raced up the hill, only to stop in surprise as Alex emerged from the trees riding a horse colored enough like Ed to be his twin.

Me and Johnny here, my colored buddy, are going to do us some business.

She was dressed in a pair of light colored slacks, a pale blue blouse and was barefoot.

Dean asked her about the motor home but she could give lit­tle information except to say it was boxy looking and blue...or white...or light colored.

Alex colored and looked embarrassed.

The day was sunny and warm, so a lilac colored sundress was her choice.

She had an oversized lollipop in her hand and her two front teeth had been colored out.

The cream colored siding looked iridescent in the moonlight.

His neck colored and he frowned.

She reached up and plucked a reddish colored grape from the cluster and wiped it on her shirt.

The West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home near Huntington is not under state control, but has received appropriations from the legislature.

The finest glass is made in Tuscany and Venetia; Venetian glass is often colored and of artistic form.

Brilliantly colored spots and patches follow the action of acid fumes on the vegetation near towns and factories, and such particoloured leaves often present striking resemblance to autumn foliage.

These hairs often occur in tufts, and are so colored and arranged that they were long taken for Fungi and placed in the genus Erineum.

This has a strong attraction for basic aniline dyes, and can usually be distinguished from other parts of the cell which are more easily colored by acid anilines.

Both cuticularized and suberized membranes are insoluble in cuprammonia, and are colored yellow or brown in a soltition of chlor-iodide of zinc. It is probable that the corky or suberized cells do not contain any cellulose (Gilson, Wisselingh); whilst cuticularized cells are only modified in their outer layers, cellulose inner layers being still recognizable.

There is also (at Oxford) an Orphanage for the Colored (1883), which was established by the " Wake and Shiloh Associations of the Colored Baptist Church," first received state aid in 1891, and is now supported chiefly by the state.

The state constitution prescribes that " white and colored children shall not be taught in the same school, but impartial provision shall be made for both."

Sir Ernest Satow states more definitely that Sakakibara attributes its origin to the year 1695, when portraits of the actor Ichikawa Danjiuro, colored by this process, were sold in the streets of Yedo for five cash apiece.

In the course of the 17th century many other works of the same nature were issued, including some in which the cuts were roughly colored by hand; but the execution of these is not as good as contemporary European work.

It is certain, however, that the mere use of colored inks must soon have suggested the combination of two or more of them, and it is probable that examples of this will be discovered much earlier in date than those known at present.

During this century the first sumptuary edict ordered that the dwellings of all high officials and opulent civilians should have tiled roofs and be colored red, the latter injunction being evidently intended to stop the use of logs carrying their bark.

When the velvet comes to him, it already carries a colored picture permanently fixed by the yzen process, but the wires have not been withdrawn.

From that time forward the Arita factories turned out large quantities of porcelain profusely decorated with blue under the glaze and colored enamels over it.

In point of fact, the production of faience decorated with goid and colored enamels may be said to have commenced at the beginning of the 1 9th century in Satsuma.

To this increase in production and to the more elaborate application of vitrifiable enamels may be attributed the erroneous idea that Satsuma faience decorated with gold and colored enamels had its origin at the close of the 18th century.

Chocolate or dove-colored grounds with delicate diapers in gold and engobe; brown or black faience with white, yellow and pink designs incised or in relief; pottery curiously and deftly marbled by combinations of various colored clays these and many other kinds are to be found, all, however, presenting one common feature, namely, skilful finger-moulding and a slight roughening of the surface as though it had received the impression of coarse linen or crape before baking.

Its only notable production of a ceramic character was the work of Miura Kenya (1830-1843), who followed the methods of the celebrated Haritsu (I 6881704) of KiOto in decorating plain or lacquered wood with mosaics of raku faience having colored glazes.

The plumage of gorgeously-hued birds, the blossoms of flowers (especially the hydrangea), the folds of thick brocade, microscopic diapers and arabesques, are built up with tiny fragments of iridescent shell, in combination with silver-foil, goldlacquer and colored bone, the whole producing a rich and sparkling effect.

Numerous operations of luting, sizing, lacquering, polishing, drying, rubbing down, and so on, are performed by the nurimono-shi, until, after many days treatment, the object emerges with a smooth, lustrelike dark-grey or colored surface, and is ready to pass into the hands of the makie-shi, or decorator.

It is plain that such a method as the latter implies great command of colored pastes, and, indeed, no feature of the manufacture is more conspicuous than the progress made during the period1880-1900in compounding and firing vitrifiable enamels.

A still higher achievement is to apply to the chiselled base designs executed in colored enamels, finally covering the whole with translucid paste.

The superintendent of the Ninth Census, 1870, presented a computation 01 the effects of this causefirst, through direct losses, by wounds or disease, either in actual service of the army or navy, or in a brief term following discharge; secondly, through the retardation of the rate of increase in the colored element, due to the privations, exposures and excesses attendant upon emancipation; thirdly, through the check given to immigration by the existence of war, the fear of conscription, and the apprehension abroad of results prejudicial to the national welfare.

In I850 the foreignborn whites (2,244,602 in number) were about two-thirds of the colored element and one-eighth of the native-white element; in 1870 the foreign-born whites (5,567,229) and the native whites of foreign parentage (5,324,786) each exceeded the colored.

The same sex constituted only 37-5% (34.6 0/c, in 1880) of the wage-earners of the third group; the South also showing here, as is natural in view of its colored class, much the highest and the Wescern division of states much the lowest percentage.

In September 1864 he became colonel of the 127th United States Colored Infantry; in 1864-1865 was in command of the prison camp at Elmira, New York, and in March 1865 was breveted brigadier-general of volunteers.

In the Kharga Oasis the upper portion consists of variously colored unfossiliferous clays with intercalated bands of sandstone containing fossil silicified woods (Nicolia Aegyptiaca and A raucarioxylon Aegypticum).

In going abroad the ladies wear above their indoor dress a loose robe of colored silk without sleeves, and nearly open at the sides, and above it a large enveloping piece of black silk, which is brought over the head, and gathered round the person by the arms and hands on each side.

The materials are quartz crystal, basalt, porphyry, syenite, granite, volcanic ash, various metamorphics, serpentine, slate, dolomite marble, alabaster, many colored marbles, saccharine marble, grey and white limestones.

Further, besides thus using glaze on a large scale, differently colored glazes were used, and even fused together.

Another use of colored glass was for cutting in the shapes of hieroglyphs for inlaying in wooden.