'Coloring' definitions:

Definition of 'coloring'

(from WordNet)
noun
A digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes" [syn: coloring, colouring, food coloring, food colouring, food color, food colour]
noun
A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light" [syn: color, colour, coloring, colouring] [ant: achromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness]
noun
The act or process of changing the color of something [syn: coloring, colouring]

Definition of 'Coloring'

From: GCIDE
  • Coloring \Col"or*ing\, n.
  • 1. The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. [1913 Webster]
  • Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss. --Compton Reade. [1913 Webster]
  • Dead coloring. See under Dead. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Coloring'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To hide. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'coloring'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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