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Coloring   /kˈələrɪŋ/   Listen
Coloring

noun
1.
A digestible substance used to give color to food.  Synonyms: colouring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring.
2.
A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect.  Synonyms: color, colour, colouring.  Antonym: colorlessness.
3.
The act or process of changing the color of something.  Synonym: colouring.



Color

verb
(past & past part. colored; pres. part. coloring)
1.
Add color to.  Synonyms: color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize.  "Fall colored the trees" , "Colorize black and white film"  Antonym: discolor.
2.
Affect as in thought or feeling.  Synonyms: colour, distort, tinge.  "The sadness tinged his life"
3.
Modify or bias.  Synonym: colour.
4.
Decorate with colors.  Synonyms: colour, emblazon.
5.
Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for.  Synonyms: colour, gloss.
6.
Change color, often in an undesired manner.  Synonyms: colour, discolor, discolour.



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"Coloring" Quotes from Famous Books



... paper which will take water color well, and where books are individually owned some of the sketches could be used for coloring in flat washes. They also afford suggestions for action sketching ...
— THE JAPANESE TWINS • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... will shrink, no voice from whose tones your heart will quail, because your hands are not clean, or your record not pure,' and I feel glad to-day that the precepts and example of that dear mother have given tone and coloring to my life; and though she has been in her grave for many years, her memory and her words are still to me an ever ...
— Sowing and Reaping • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

... his sudden death, an old gentleman, a chance acquaintance, was talking with him about the muddy coloring of the pictures. Old Melville's eyes wandered over the four walls representing a life's work; at first he ardently argued in their favor, but finally gave in that they, perhaps, were a little bit too dark. "Why do you not take a studio where ...
— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various

... press is against the Catholic Church. The total suppression of truths and of facts; the conspiracy of silence—often more dangerous than an open attack; the coloring of news with shades of thought suited to a definite purpose; the partial admission of truth and the maimed relation of facts; the bold assertion of deliberate falsehoods; the deceptive headlines—and the people live on headlines; ...
— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly

... no pains about coloring his face or hands, for both were burned so brown with exposure to the sun that he had no fear that a casual glance at them at night, even in torchlight, would detect that he was ...
— In Times of Peril • G. A. Henty


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