Hue

noun

1. A phenomenon of light (such as red, brown, pink, or gray) or visual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise identical objects
2. Clothing of a bright see bright color clothing that is neither dark nor light in color

   "Wash your colors separately from your darks and lights."

3. Something used to give color pigment
4. Two or more hues employed in a medium of presentation

   "movies in color"

5. The use or combination of colors
6. Skin pigmentation other than and especially darker than what is considered characteristic of people typically defined as white see white

   "The charges … allege that the social network discriminates based on color …"

7. The tint characteristic of good health

   "… sat looking at her with wistful eyes, trying to see signs of hope in the faint color on Beth's cheeks."

8. Blush
9. An identifying badge, pennant, or flag
10. Colored clothing distinguishing one as a member of a particular group or representative of a particular person or thing
11. Character, nature
12. Position as to a question or course of action stand

    "… the USSR changed neither its colors nor its stripes during all of this …"

13. Vividness or variety of effects of language

    "… that color and force of style which were later to make him outstanding among American editors …"

14. Local color
15. Vitality, interest

    "The play had a good deal of color to it."

16. Analysis of game action or strategy, statistics and background information on participants, and often anecdotes provided by a sportscaster to give variety and interest to the broadcast of a game or contest

    "a color commentator"

17. An outward often deceptive show appearance

    "His story has the color of truth."

18. A legal claim to or appearance of a right, authority, or office
19. A pretense offered as justification pretext

    "the color for his action"

20. An appearance of authenticity plausibility

    "lending color to this notion"

21. A naval or nautical salute to a flag being hoisted or lowered
22. Armed forces
23. The quality of timbre in music

    "the color and richness of the cello"

24. A small particle of gold in a gold miner's pan after washing
25. A hypothetical property of quarks that differentiates each type into three forms having a distinct role in binding quarks together
26. a phenomenon of light (such as red, brown, pink, or gray) or visual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise identical objects
27. the aspect of the appearance of objects and light sources that may be described in terms of hue, lightness, and saturation for objects and hue, brightness, and saturation for light sources; also : a specific combination of hue, saturation, and lightness or brightness
28. a color other than and as contrasted with black, white, or gray

verb

1. To give color to
2. To change the color of (as by dyeing, staining, or painting)

   "She colors her hair."

3. Influence

   ""The lives of most of us have been colored by politics … ""

4. Misrepresent, distort

   "a highly colored version of the facts"

5. Gloss, excuse

   "color a lie"

6. Characterize, label

   "… call it progress; color it inevitable with shades of job security"

7. To fill in a shape or picture outlined on a piece of paper using markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc.

   "His granddaughter Fernanda sat at his side, coloring with crayons."

8. To take on color

noun

1. A set of societal or legal barriers that segregates people of color from white people (as by restricting social interaction or requiring separate facilities) and prevents people of color from exercising the same rights and accessing the same opportunities as white people color line

   ""Rosetta [LeNoire] did more than dream of a theater with no color bar—she actually built one," he [Bill Clinton] said."

noun

1. One who carries a color or standard especially in a military parade or drill

adjective

1. Affected with partial or total inability to distinguish one or more chromatic colors

   "Dull colors are the rule for color-blind animals, like elephants and hippos and rhinos."

2. Not influenced by differences of race see race

   "a color-blind policy/approach"

3. Insensitive, oblivious

   "We maintain no cash reserves, assuming we can borrow our way out of a crisis. We live as if color-blind to risk."

noun

1. Partial or total inability to distinguish one or more chromatic colors

   "In color blindness which affects as many as 8 to 10 percent of men, a person may lose the ability to see all colors or merely the capacity to discriminate between certain hues."

2. The act or practice of treating all people the same regardless of race

   "For [Justice John] Harlan, color blindness forbade the state from creating invidious racial categories; for Rehnquist (and Reagan and Steele), color blindness means racial neutrality—as if we live in a world where wishing makes prejudice go away."

noun

1. Abstract painting in which color is emphasized and form and surface are correspondingly de-emphasized

noun

1. Filter

noun

1. An honor guard for the colors of an organization