Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An act or process which applies color.

    the act or process of changing the color of something

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any substance used to give color.

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    a digestible substance used to give color to food

  3. (countable, uncountable)The appearance as to color.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A disguise or discoloration.

  5. (countable, uncountable)An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Yellowstone offers exquisite colorings of its mineral formations.

Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: colorings

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act or process of changing the color of something:colouring
  • a digestible substance used to give color to food:colouringfood coloringfood colouringfood colorfood colour
  • a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect:colorcolourcolouring

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcolor

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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