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colors

colors \colors\ n.

  1. a flag flown by a ship to show its nationality.

    Syn: ensign, colours.

  2. a distinguishing emblem; as, his tie proclaimed his school colors.

    Syn: colours.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
colors

"flag of a regiment or ship" 1580s, from color (n.).

Wiktionary
colors

alt. 1 (context plural only English) The flag of a nation or team. 2 (context plural only English) Gang insigni

  1. 3 (plural of color English)Category:English plurals 4 (context plural only military English) The morning ceremony of raising the flag. n. 1 (context plural only English) The flag of a nation or team. 2 (context plural only English) Gang insignia. 3 (plural of color English)Category:English plurals 4 (context plural only military English) The morning ceremony of raising the flag. v

  2. (en-third-person singular of: color)

WordNet
colors
  1. n. a flag that shows its nationality [syn: colours]

  2. a distinguishing emblem; "his tie proclaimed his school colors" [syn: colours]

Wikipedia
Colors (film)

Colors is a 1988 American police procedural action crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, and directed by Dennis Hopper. The film takes place in the gang ridden neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, East Los Angeles and the LAPD Rampart Division, and centers on Bob Hodges (Duvall), an experienced Los Angeles Police Department CRASH officer, and his rookie partner, Danny McGavin (Penn), who try to stop the gang violence between the Bloods, the Crips, and Hispanic street gangs. Colors relaunched Hopper as a director 18 years after Easy Rider, and inspired discussion over its depiction of gang life and gang violence.

Colors (video game)

Colors is a Gizmondo game that uses the console's GPS system to allow the player to play in the area where the player is located in real life, in the game. Colors was intended to be the world’s first GPS video game, but due to Gizmondo’s bankruptcy, it was never officially released.

There was a mostly complete version of Colors that was circulated on the Internet. When first playing Colors, it appears the multiplayer game, called TurfWar, is offline. After a player gains 30,000 dollars, it unlocks. Another unlockable is the tag editor which allows players to spraypaint custom tags around the city. It is unlocked after beating a certain mission in the game.

The multiplayer mode of the game does not function.

On November 30, 2015, Carl Freer announced plans to re-release the game for iOS and Google Play.

Colors (magazine)

Colors (stylised as COLORS) is a quarterly magazine about 'the rest of the world'. Founded in 1991, it is published worldwide in six editions: Chinese/English, French/English, Italian/English, Korean/English, Portuguese/English and Spanish/English. Every issue of the magazine takes a single theme and covers it from an international perspective. It is produced at the Fabrica research centre in Treviso, Italy.

Colors (Between the Buried and Me album)

Colors is the fifth studio album by American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me, released on September 18, 2007 through Victory Records. The group brought out many different influences within the structure of the songs featured on the album. Some of these influences are not even derivative of extreme metal. Examples include jazz, acoustic pop, arena rock, and bluegrass. The album's sound was described by the band as "adult contemporary progressive death metal". Although separated in 8 tracks, Colors gives the impression of one continuous song, with transitions between each part.

Colors (Utada Hikaru song)

"Colors" (stylized as COLORS) is Utada Hikaru's 12th Japanese-language single (14th overall), and is the only single she released in 2003. It was released on January 29, 2003 and debuted at #1 on the Oricon charts with 437,903 copies sold in the first week, and became her fifth single to perform the rare two-consecutive weeks at the #1 slot feat. Two versions were released, CD and DVD.

Included as CD-Extras on this single was a multimedia section containing 13 exclusive screensavers and 13 exclusive wallpapers. A special feature on the "Colors" DVD Single is the Kanzou-sensei Report, which is a mini-documentary showing the production that went into the DVD, as well as behind-the-scenes shots of Utada working. This single reached #1 on Oricon charts and charted for 45 weeks, her longest charting single ever. Though Kazuaki Kiriya was behind the art direction for the single, he did not take an active part as usual, with the single photography going to Kaoru Izima and the PV directing going to Donald Cameron. On the cover and the inside covers, there are drawings done by Utada herself (some designs include musical notation, the word 'yes' and a drawing of the Vatican). This single became the #3 single of 2003 in Japan. "Colors" had an extremely long performance season, which included 11 performances spanning over two months (except for the last performance, which was a special). This single reached #27 on World Charts for single airplay, and reached #6 for sales. The most recent figures (May 25, 2006) show that the single sold 893,790 units in total. The song featured heavy ethereal and experimental tones for the first time in Utada's discography. It became her longest charting single ever with a 45-week trajectory on the Oricon Singles chart, selling 881,000 copies, and was #3 on the Yearly Singles chart.

"Colors" was performed during Utada's two date concert series Wild Life in December 2010.

Colors (soundtrack)

Colors is the soundtrack of the 1988 film Colors. It was released on April 26, 1988, by Warner Bros. Records and mostly consisted of hip hop music. The soundtrack found success, peaking at 31 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold on July 12, 1988, but it is best remembered for its title track performed by Ice-T. The single wasn't a huge success on the charts, only making it to 70 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Colors (Ice-T song)

"Colors" is a song by Ice-T, issued as the title track for the soundtrack to the film of the same name. The song was released as a single in 1988. In 2008, it was named the 19th greatest hip-hop song of all time by VH1. The song was covered by the groove metal band Machine Head, and released on the 1997 bonus disc version of their album The More Things Change.

Colors (motorcycling)

Colors are the insignia, or "patches", worn by motorcycle club members on cut-offs to identify membership of their club and territorial location. Club patches have been worn by many different groups since the 1960s. They are regarded by many to symbolize an elite amongst motorcyclists and the style has been widely copied by other subcultures and commercialized.

Colors are considered to represent "significant markers of the socialization" of new members to clubs, rank and present a dominant symbol of identity and marked with related symbolism. They can be embroidered patches sewn onto clothing or stenciled in paint, the primary symbol being the back patch of club's insignia or logo and generally remain the property of the club. Wearing such clothing is referred to as "flying one's colors". The term has its roots in military history, originating with regimental colours.

Colors (Broiler song)

"Colors" is a single from Norwegian DJ and electronic music duo Broiler. It was released in Norway on November 29, 2013 for digital download. The song has peaked to number 18 on the Norwegian Singles Chart. The song is included on their EP Episode 1 (2013).

Colors (Flow song)

COLORS is FLOW's eleventh single. The A-Side was used as the first opening theme song for Code Geass. It reached #2 on the Oricon charts in its first week and charted for 16 weeks.

Colors (EP)

Colors is the third mini-album by South Korean girl group Miss A, which was released on 30 March 2015 by JYP Entertainment. "Only You" serves as the lead single for the album.

Colors (CNBLUE album)

Colors (stylized colors) is the fourth major-label Japanese studio album (sixth overall) by South Korean pop rock band CNBLUE. It was released on September 30, 2015, under Warner Music Japan. After releasing the first single " White", the band decided to continue with the theme of color to showcase musical variety through the album. " Supernova" was released as the album's promotional single in September.

Colors was released in four editions: Regular Edition, Limited Editions A and B, and a fan club-only Boice Limited Edition. It went on to debut at number one on the weekly Oricon Albums Chart, the first time in over three years since CNBLUE topped the chart. The band embarked on the CNBLUE 2015 Arena Tour: Be a Supernova from November to December in Nagano, Tokyo, Aichi, Fukui, and Osaka.

Colors (Halsey song)

"Colors" is a song by American recording artist Halsey taken from her debut studio album, Badlands (2015). It serves as the official third single from the record, and it hit alternative radio on February 9, 2016.

Colors (House of Heroes album)

Colors is the sixth studio album by House of Heroes. Bad Christian Music released the album on July 1, 2016.

Usage examples of "colors".

She counted five different nighties of varying styles, colors, and levels of transparency as well as a black teddy with snaps that went from the crotch to her breasts.

The second, and perhaps later aim, was by imitating the shapes and colors of men, animals, and the like, to convey an idea of the proportions and characters of such things.

Even the explanatory hieroglyphic texts ran in colors, lining the walls and winding around the cylinders of stone.

His colors were local tones, but probably more like nature and more varied than anything in Egyptian painting.

According to Plutarch, he was the first to discover variation in the shade of colors, and, according to Pliny, the first master to paint objects as they appeared in nature.

She was a trader with the East from her infancy--not Constantinople and the Byzantine East alone, but back of these the old Mohammedan East, which for a thousand years has cast its art in colors rather than in forms.

He was an elaborate painter, fond of architectural backgrounds and glowing colors enlivened with gold in the high lights.

Pontormo, and an imitator of Michael Angelo, painting in rather heavy colors with a thin brush.

They caught the lines and lights and colors of the great men, but they overlooked the fact that the excellence of the imitated lay largely in their inimitable individualities, which could not be combined.

It consists in the elevated, heroic, or historical theme, academic form well drawn, some show of bright colors, smoothness of brush-work, and precision and nicety of detail.

His method is to use pure prismatic colors on the principle that color is light in a decomposed form, and that its proper juxtaposition on canvas will recompose into pure light again.

Technically his was a master-hand, doing all things with ease, giving exact relations of colors and lights, and placing everything so perfectly that no addition or alteration is thought of.

A pronounced mannerist he was no less a man of strength, and even in his shadow-saturated colors a painter with the color instinct.

He painted in oil, tempera, and for glass, and is supposed to have gained his brilliant colors by using a gilt ground.

These formed a skeleton which he clothed in a half-tone shadow, pierced with warm yellow light, enriched with rare colors, usually garnet reds and deep yellows repeated in the different planes, and surrounded with a subtle pervading atmosphere.