colours

noun

Meaning

The spectral composition of visible light
A subset thereof:
A paint.
Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
To give something color.
To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
(of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
To affect without completely changing.
To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
Flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern.

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