Color

Humans and birds can perceive color.

Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.

What color are your bf's eyes?

Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.

This film is broadcast in color. Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.

The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.

Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.

[…] her very embarrassment wore a graceful air; her high colour had softened down to a warm, delicate tint; and her dress, which looked beautifully new and fresh, was in good taste, and showed her off to advantage.

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There is a great deal of colour in his writing.

a bit of local color

Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]

Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?

The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.

The colors were raised over the new territory.

The arrival of the British Consul at Bangkok shall not take place before the ratification of this Treaty, nor until ten vessels owned by British subjects, sailing under British colours and with British papers, shall have entered the port of Bangkok for purposes of trade, subsequent to the signing of this Treaty.

Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.

He was awarded colors for his football.

At the far end of the continuum, Roger Seagraves collected personal items from people he'd murdered, or assassinated rather, since he'd done it under the color of serving his country.

Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.

They held possession under color of title.

The only thing which this defendant is accused of doing is that he excluded this boy from the school, and he did it under the color of the statute relating to the subject, and did it because he was a colored boy.

no such action, suit, or any other process or proceeding thereupon shall at any time be impeached, stayed, or delayed by or under colour or pretence of any privilege of Parliament.

He smelted Wells’s colour before it was valued, and by the time anybody saw it, it had been poured into bars and stamped with the Reserve seal.

The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle.

In other words, Brahms saves the higher violin color for the more important foreground statement and assigns the soft swirling background to middle-register violins and violas, while the cellos dominate in their best voice.

Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.

I took my TV over on the first trip. I got a beauty. It's four years old, color, but when I had a little snow and asked the repairman to come in, he told me never, never turn this set in for a new one.

We could color the walls red.

My kindergartener loves to color.

Her face colored as she realized her mistake.

That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.

Color me confused.

They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.

Can this graph be 2-colored?

You can color any map with four colors.

Many languages have a "neutral", roughly central vowel like /a/ or /ə/ which can be colored to a back, rounded vowel like [o] by an adjacent labialized consonant, or to a front, unrounded vowel like [e] by an adjacent palatalized consonant.

The Proto-Indo-European laryngeal *h₂ often colors the neutral vowel *e with an a-like quality, while *h₃ results in a more o-like quality; *h₁ has no coloring effect.