coloring

English

Alternative forms

• colouring (UK)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
• Homophone: culler
• Hyphenation: col‧or

Verb

coloring

1. present participle and gerund of color

Noun

coloring (countable and uncountable, plural colorings)

1. An act or process which applies color.
2. Any substance used to give color.

   Synonym: pigment

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3. The appearance as to color.

   Synonym: coloration

4. A disguise or discoloration.
5. (graph theory) An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.

Antonyms

• bleach
• neutral
• shade

Hypernyms

• distinction
• mark

Hyponyms

• dye
• glow
• haircolor
• highlight
• ink
• paint
• rust
• shine
• stain
• tarnish
• tint
• verdigris

 

Derived terms

• food colouring (food coloring)

Related terms

• colorable
• coloration
• colored
• color guard
• colorless
• color line

 

Translations

act or process

• Bulgarian: оцветяване n (ocvetjavane)
• Finnish: väritys (fi), värittäminen (fi)
• Irish: clódóireacht f
• Polish: kolorowanie (pl) n, barwienie (pl) n, farbowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: colorir (pt)
• Russian: окра́ска (ru) f (okráska), окра́шивание (ru) n (okrášivanije), раскра́шивание (ru) n (raskrášivanije), раскра́ска (ru) f (raskráska)
• Spanish: coloración f

appearance

• Bulgarian: окраска (bg) f (okraska)
• Finnish: väritys (fi)
• Russian: раскра́ска (ru) f (raskráska)

disguise or discoloration

• Finnish: suojaväritys (disguise), värin muuttuminen (discoloration)
• Russian: раскра́ска (ru) f (raskráska) (disguise), обесцве́чивание (ru) n (obescvéčivanije) (discoloration)
• Spanish: decoloración f

Derived terms

• cocoloring
• coloring book (colouring book)
• coloring pencil (colouring pencil)
• dead colouring (dead coloring)
• overcoloring
• precoloring
• pseudocoloring

 

Anagrams

• crooling