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col·or·ing
(kŭl′ər-ĭng)n.
1. The art, manner, or process of applying color.
2. A substance used to color something.
3. Appearance with regard to color.
4. Characteristic aspect, tone, or style.
5. False or misleading appearance.
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col•or•ing
(ˈkʌl ər ɪŋ)n.
1. the act or method of applying color.
2. appearance as to color: healthy coloring.
3. a substance used to color something: food coloring.
4. aspect or tone.
5. specious appearance; show.
[1375–1425]
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Noun | 1. | coloring - a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes" food product, foodstuff - a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food |
2. | coloring - 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" visual property - an attribute of vision primary color, primary colour - any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing heather mixture, heather - interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color mottle - an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green" tint, shade, tincture, tone - a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" achromatic color, achromatic colour - a color lacking hue; white or grey or black coloration, colouration - appearance with regard to color; "her healthy coloration" dithered color, dithered colour, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour - a color produced by a pattern of differently colored dots that together simulate the desired color | |
3. | coloring - the act or process of changing the color of something change of color - an act that changes the light that something reflects tinting - the act of adding a tinge of color; "the hairdresser gave her hair a modest tinting" hair coloring - the act of dyeing or tinting one's hair dyeing - the use of dye to change the color of something permanently |
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coloring
noun2. Skin tone, especially of the face:
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Translations
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farvelægning
väritys
put
着色
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coloring
→ تَلْوِين zbarvení farvelægning Färbung χρωματισμός color, colorido väritys coloration put colorazione 着色 착색 teint fargelegging kolorowanie coloração окрас färgning การให้สี boyama việc tô màu 外貌Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
coloring
n colorante m; food — colorante alimentario or de alimentosEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.