'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
- abstractionism,
- achromatism,
- acrylic painting,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affective meaning,
- appearance,
- attitudinizing,
- bearing,
- bloom,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- blush,
- blushing,
- cast,
- cheating,
- chromatic,
- chromatism,
- chromism,
- chromogen,
- clang color,
- coat,
- coat of paint,
- coating,
- cold,
- color,
- color balance,
- color filter,
- color gelatin,
- color harmony,
- color printing,
- color scheme,
- colorant,
- coloration,
- colorific,
- coloring,
- complexion,
- confabulation,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- cool,
- crimsoning,
- dead-color,
- deception,
- decorator color,
- deformation,
- delusion,
- denotation,
- dichromatic,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distemper,
- distortion,
- drier,
- drift,
- dye,
- dyeing,
- dyestuff,
- effect,
- embellishment,
- emblazonry,
- encaustic cerography,
- encaustic painting,
- equivocation,
- erubescent,
- essence,
- exaggeration,
- expressionism,
- extension,
- exterior paint,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false coloring,
- false front,
- false show,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- finger painting,
- flat coat,
- flat wash,
- floor enamel,
- flower painting,
- flush,
- flushing,
- force,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fresco painting,
- front,
- garbling,
- genre painting,
- gilt,
- gist,
- gloss,
- glow,
- glowing,
- gouache,
- grammatical meaning,
- grisaille,
- ground,
- guise,
- harmonious,
- hectic,
- hectic flush,
- hue,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hyperbole,
- idea,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- impact,
- impasto,
- implication,
- import,
- imposture,
- inaccuracy,
- injustice,
- intension,
- interior paint,
- key,
- Klangfarbe,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- lithography,
- litotes,
- mantling,
- many-colored,
- masquerade,
- matching,
- meaning,
- medium,
- medley,
- meretriciousness,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misdrawing,
- mispainting,
- misquotation,
- misreport,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misteaching,
- monochromatic,
- monochrome,
- monochromic,
- motley,
- mural painting,
- natural color,
- nonrealism,
- oil painting,
- opaque color,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overdrawing,
- overstatement,
- overtone,
- paint,
- painting,
- pallor,
- parti-colored,
- perjury,
- pertinence,
- perversion,
- picturization,
- pigment,
- pigmentary,
- pigmentation,
- pith,
- playacting,
- point,
- polychromatic,
- portraiture,
- pose,
- posing,
- poster painting,
- posture,
- practical consequence,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prevarication,
- prime coat,
- primer,
- priming,
- prismatic,
- pudency,
- pudicity,
- purport,
- put-on,
- rainbow,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- reddening,
- reference,
- referent,
- relation,
- relevance,
- representation,
- rubefacient,
- rubescence,
- rubescent,
- rubificative,
- rufescence,
- scope,
- seeming,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- semblance,
- sense,
- shade,
- sham,
- show,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- skin color,
- slanting,
- span of meaning,
- speciousness,
- spectral,
- spirit,
- stain,
- staining,
- straining,
- structural meaning,
- substance,
- suffusion,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- symbolic meaning,
- tempera,
- tenor,
- the brush,
- thinner,
- timbre,
- tinct,
- tinction,
- tinctorial,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tingent,
- tinging,
- tint,
- tinting,
- tonality,
- tone,
- tone color,
- tone quality,
- toning,
- totality of associations,
- transferred meaning,
- transparent color,
- turpentine,
- turps,
- twisting,
- unadorned meaning,
- undercoat,
- undercoating,
- undercolor,
- understatement,
- undertone,
- value,
- variegated,
- varnish,
- vehicle,
- warm,
- wash,
- wash coat,
- wash drawing,
- window dressing
Words containing 'Coloring'
- Color,
- Colorable,
- Colorableness,
- Colorably,
- Colorate,
- Coloration,
- Colored,
- Of color,
- color in,
- colorful,
- colorize,
- colors,
- off color,
- Accidental color,
- Body color,
- Color blindness,
- Color sergeant,
- Complementary color,
- Complementary colors,
- Cyanic colors,
- Damask color,
- Dead color,
- Dead coloring,
- Express color,
- Field colors,
- Flame color,
- Flying colors,
- Fundamental colors,
- Grain colors,
- Indelible colors,
- Isabel color,
- Isabella color,
- Lead color,
- Lenten color,
- Liver color,
- Local color,
- Peach color,
- Play of colors,
- Primary colors,
- Primitive colors,
- Prismatic colors,
- Protective coloring,
- Rose color,
- Saturated color,
- Secondary color,
- Solid color,
- Stand of colors,
- Steam colors,
- Subjective color,
- Substantive color,
- Tempering color,
- Tertiary color,
- To dip the colors,
- To troop the colors,
- Tone color,
- Water color,
- Xanthic colors,
- achromatic color,
- apatetic coloration,
- aposematic coloration,
- basic color,
- change of color,
- chromatic color,
- cinnamon colored,
- color bar,
- color bearer,
- color blind,
- color chart,
- color circle,
- color code,
- color constancy,
- color force,
- color guard,
- color line,
- color of law,
- color photography,
- color property,
- color scheme,
- color spectrum,
- color television,
- color tube,
- color tv,
- color vision,
- color wash,
- color wheel,
- colored audition,
- colored hearing,
- colored person,
- coloring book,
- coloring material,
- copper color,
- copper colored,
- cryptic coloration,
- dithered color,
- earth color,
- earth colors,
- food color,
- food coloring,
- hair coloring,
- mouse colored,
- nonsolid color,
- off-color,
- oil color,
- parti color,
- people of color,
- person of color,
- poster color,
- primary color,
- protective coloration,
- ring of color,
- rose colored,
- skin color,
- spectral color,
- vat color,
- warning coloration,
- Color-blind,
- Cream-colored,
- Fawn-colored,
- Flame-colored,
- High-colored,
- Judas-colored,
- Lark-colored,
- Liver-colored,
- Parti-colored,
- Party-colored,
- Peach-colored,
- Rose-colored,
- Self-color,
- Self-colored,
- Slate-color,
- Straw-colored,
- Three-color,
- To come off with flying colors,
- Trout-colored,
- blush-colored,
- brightly-colored,
- buff-colored,
- chestnut-colored,
- chocolate-colored,
- cinnamon-colored,
- color television system,
- color television tube,
- color tv tube,
- color vision deficiency,
- creamy-colored,
- dark-colored,
- dun-colored,
- dusky-colored,
- earth-colored,
- flesh-colored,
- garnet-colored,
- gold-colored,
- honey-colored,
- lead-colored,
- light-colored,
- lilac-colored,
- metal-colored,
- metallic-colored,
- mouse-colored,
- multi-color,
- multi-colored,
- neutral-colored,
- olive-colored,
- orange-colored,
- pale-colored,
- parti-color,
- pass with flying colors,
- pastel-colored,
- peachy-colored,
- primary color for light,
- primary color for pigments,
- rosy-colored,
- rust-colored,
- silver-colored,
- snuff-color,
- solid-colored,
- tawny-colored,
- violet-colored,
- water-color,
- wine-colored,
- Rose-colored starling,
- clay-colored robin,
- color-blind person,
- cream-colored courser,
- earth-colored earthlike,
- honey honey-colored,
- mousy mouse-colored,
- primary subtractive color for light,
- rose-colored pastor,
- slate-colored junco,
- straw-color straw-colored straw-coloured,
- blushful blush-colored rosy,
- field-sequential color television,
- field-sequential color tv,
- red-green color blindness,
- rust rusty rust-colored,
- yellow-blue color blindness,
- field-sequential color television system,
- field-sequential color tv system,
- snuff snuff-brown snuff-color snuff-colour snuff-colored snuff-coloured mummy-brown chukker-brown