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COLORS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A flag that shows its nationality
Synonyms:
colors; colours
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("colors" is a kind of...):
flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colors"):
ensign (colors flown by a ship to show its nationality)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A distinguishing emblem
Example:
his tie proclaimed his school colors
Synonyms:
colors; colours
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("colors" is a kind of...):
emblem (special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb color
Context examples:
By dissecting starlight filtering through the planet’s atmosphere into its component colors, the team found clear evidence for water.
(NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere, NASA)
The colors are white, golden, tan or gray with black markings, in either solid or mixed colors.
(Borzoi, NCI Thesaurus)
Any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue that are medium to low in lightness and low to moderate in saturation.
(Brown, NCI Thesaurus)
Coat colors come in solid white, or white with patches of tan, wolf-gray or pale yellow.
(Great Pyrenees, NCI Thesaurus)
Their images can be displayed with different colors as if one were on top of the other.
(Fused Image, NCI Thesaurus)
The Pekingese has a long, straight-flowing coat that has profuse feathering and comes in all colors.
(Pekingese, NCI Thesaurus)
The coat is short and smooth and comes in all dog colors.
(Greyhound, NCI Thesaurus)
Coat colors include salt and pepper, black, white or a harsh black and silver outer coat with a soft undercoat.
(Miniature Schnauzer, NCI Thesaurus)
A graphical representation of data where the values taken by a variable in a two-dimensional map are represented as colors.
(Heatmap, NCI Thesaurus)
It comes in white with markings in any of the following colors: black, orange, yellow, tri-color and grizzle.
(Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen, NCI Thesaurus)
