She loved the life, noise, and color of the market. 她爱市场上的生趣、喧哗与多姿多彩。
What color did you paint the door? 你把门漆成什么颜色?
The leaves have started to color; it will soon be winter. 树叶已开始变色,很快就是冬天了。
color
[ noun ]
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
<noun.attribute> a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light
interest and variety and intensity
<noun.attribute> the Puritan Period was lacking in color the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
the timbre of a musical sound
<noun.attribute> the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
<noun.group>
an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
<noun.attribute> he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction the situation soon took on a different color
any material used for its color
<noun.substance> she used a different color for the trim
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
<noun.cognition> each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
<adj.all> color film he rented a color television marvelous color illustrations
Color \Col"or\, v. i. To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
Color \Col"or\ (k[u^]l"[~e]r), n. [Written also {colour}.] [OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See {Helmet}.] 1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
Note: The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them.
2. Any hue distinguished from white or black.
3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
Give color to my pale cheek. --Shak.
4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. --Acts xxvii. 30.
That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. --Shak.
6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. --Shak.
7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. --Farrow.
8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. --Blackstone.
Note: Color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading.
{Body color}. See under {Body}.
{Color blindness}, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See {Daltonism}.
{Complementary color}, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption.
{Of color} (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed.
{Primary colors}, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called {fundamental colors}.
{Subjective color} or {Accidental color}, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See {Accidental colors}, under {Accidental}.
Color \Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Colored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coloring}.] [F. colorer.] 1. 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.
2. 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. --Dryden.
3. To hide. [Obs.]
That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. --Spenser.
I am merely one who loves well-done films, be they in color or black and white.
But Ms. Ingram argued that "Ruby Lewis did not perceive the plaintiff as having different skin color from she." She said the issue was Ms. Morrow's job performance.
If sophistication was not a draw, there was Dennis the Menace and Uncle Art's Funland, in color.
Becoming overwrought over such issues as where people sit or the color of the napkins is usually a cover for other emotional issues.
Big color prints burst out here, too, on flowered strapless bustier sheaths with puff-sleeved boleros.
Turner has long argued that he's merely protecting his investment by tapping into a new audience for old movies of the 1930s and '40s _ young people who grew up on color TV.
"There is a similarity in physical appearance in the four female victims as far as hair color, eye color and general physical build," Clifton said.
"There is a similarity in physical appearance in the four female victims as far as hair color, eye color and general physical build," Clifton said.
Although the Apple IIgs has a color screen, it's seen as yesterday's technology; IBM has provided low-end color computers for years.
Although the Apple IIgs has a color screen, it's seen as yesterday's technology; IBM has provided low-end color computers for years.
With the new copier, she says, she's able to use color graphics more extensively.
She tells Ms. Kelleher that one day she will have a master bedroom the color of peach, with a vanity.
Color Systems, which converts black-and-white films to color, said it intends to resume quarterly interest payments in January.
And parochial concerns color the congressional debate.
When a daughter asks why her father beats her mother all the time, the mother tells her, "That man's been beaten down because of the color of his skin."
Meanwhile the production of color television sets has increased 32 percent despite a new luxury tax.
The report cited sharp increases in purchases of imported vehicles, color televisions, motorcycles, air conditioners, sofas and carpets despite a government freeze on buying such items.
Mikva mentioned Derwinski's "skills, talents and color." Among those attending the ceremony were former House speakers Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill of Massachusetts and Jim Wright of Texas.
About 200 people gathered at the U.S. Post Office to watch color guards whirl flags and to hear speeches as the stamp was unveiled.
From inside they could stay warm, hear the speeches _ and watch that Duke-Temple game on a color television.
But in December alone, Japan exported 18,584 color televisions to the U.S., a 107% jump from the year earlier.
Although, as your article points out, I did have one unproductive trip to the factory in 1987, in all of my most recent selection trips to Steinway, I was pleased to find pianos with exceptional beauty and range of color and response.
Unity High School's Class of '89 all agreed on what color their graduation gowns should be.
The most effective color usually is determined by the color and clarity of the water you're fishing, so variety allows experimentation.
The most effective color usually is determined by the color and clarity of the water you're fishing, so variety allows experimentation.
But what supposedly sets this painting pachyderm apart is aesthetic intelligence, her evident use of color to re-create what she sees.
"The attack must have been carried out by extremists whatever their color, identity or nationality is," he said at a news conference in Baghdad, where the PLO has offices and its official radio station, Voice of Palestine.
About 90 minutes later, Soviet television broke into its evening news program "Vremya" for a live color broadcast showing Alexandrov, wearing a dark blue flight suit, aboard Mir with four Soviet cosmonauts.
International Business Machines Corp. said Monday it and Toshiba Corp. have developed a prototype color flat-panel display for computers that is larger and clearer than any demonstrated so far.
Exergon was one of the original financial backers of Color Systems, which converts black-and-white films into color.