Crossword clues for coloring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coloring \Col"or*ing\, n.
The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.
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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.
Color \Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colored; p. pr. & vb. n. Coloring.] [F. colorer.]
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To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.
The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color.
--Sir I. Newton. -
To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.
He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen.
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To hide. [Obs.]
That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "action of applying color," noun of action from color (v.). Figurative use by 1540s. Meaning "way something is colored" is early 15c. Coloring book is from 1931.
Wiktionary
alt. (present participle of color English) n. 1 An act or process which applies color. 2 The appearance as to color. 3 A disguise or discoloration. vb. (present participle of color English)
WordNet
n. a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes" [syn: colouring, food coloring, food colouring, food color, food colour]
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" [syn: color, colour, colouring] [ant: colorlessness]
the act or process of changing the color of something [syn: colouring]
Wikipedia
Coloring or colouring may refer to:
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Color, or the act of changing the color of an object
- Coloring, the act of adding color to the pages of a coloring book
- Coloring, the act of adding color to comic book pages, where the person's job title is Colorist
- Graph coloring, in mathematics
- Hair coloring
- Food coloring
- Coloring book, coloring books for kids
Usage examples of "coloring".
Sorry to get you after hours, my dear, but I can't seem to get in to Terra and I heard you coloring the atmosphere.
And he emerged, a creature like herself, already coloring the shell with his own personal intensity.
With the genius of sheer desperation, Helva began to sing, her voice a deep, caressing baritone, coloring her resonances with minor-keyed longing, suspending reason to the dictates of sheer instinct.
He was also pigheaded, dogmatic, insensitive, regulation-hedged and so narrowly oriented as to prevent any vestige of imagination or intuitive thinking from coloring his mental processes for a microsecond.
The short red-haired boy with a face like a friendly gargoyle had Flix's coloring and the flashing smile that reeled girls in to Flix like trout on a hook.
Her ash-blond hair—her own natural coloring with the barest tint of help from modern technology—was woven with ropes of black pearls.
She had the almost translucent skin that often went with such coloring and her eyes, anxiously seeking his, were an amazing shade of blue.
Sorry to get you after hours, my dear, but I don't really know anyone else to tag on Earth and I heard you coloring your atmosphere.
Rojer rolled his eyes, coloring his thoughts with envious scenes of marital harmony.
They had a disconcerting resemblance to each other, not only a sameness of height and build but of coloring and feature.
In his distress, his voice had thickened into the same oddly precise brogue coloring of Bunny's and her Uncle Seamus's speech.
He was bigger than Sean, she saw, and more stockily built, and of course their coloring was very different.
But it was the ineffable weariness in the dragon’s eyes, whirling slightly and coloring from a purple to a blue-green, that Jayge noted particularly.
He was eager to prove himself acceptable to his father, to be the one of his sons to receive the secret skills of coloring glass in the glorious shades that only a Master of the Craft could produce: which sand would make molten glass blue, which powder caused the brilliant deep crimson.
And his coloring was so much darker than the fair-skinned, fair-haired people of Bay Zen.