FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light

n A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class; blee.

n (uncountable) hue | Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).

n (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.

n (figuratively) interest | Interest, especially in a selective area.

n (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.

n (in the plural) A standard or banner.

n The system of color television.

n (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.

n In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.

n (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.

n (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.

n (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.

n A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.

n An appearance of right or authority.

n (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.

a Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

v To give something color.

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

v (context|of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.

v To affect without completely changing.

v (informal) To attribute a quality to.

v (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertex|vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color.