colour
IPA: kˈʌɫɝ
noun
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.
verb
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.
adjective
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.
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Examples of "colour" in Sentences
- I can only empathise since my skin colour is the majority.
- The main colour is maya blue with the "Aeroport Castello" sponsor screened on the in the middle.
- The main colour is red with the white hoop in the middle, sleeve ends and Puma logos all being white.
- Still fire and flesh pressed together, and a tiny spiral of smoke began to arise from Kwaque's finger-end that was different in colour from the smoke of a cigar-end.
- a considerable degree of what might be called naturalism, so far as good line-drawing and understanding of flower form goes, emphasis of colour being sought by means of _planes of colour_, rather than by planes of shadow.
- a charge of a metal must rest upon a field that is of a colour or fur; or, contrariwise, that a charge of a colour must rest on a field that is of a metal or fur, -- that is, that _metal be not on metal, nor colour on colour_.
- Speaking of the highly-coloured males, especially among birds, the same writer states that "the _normal colour_ (italics ours) is that of the young and the female, and the colour of the male is the result of his excessive variability."
- Shadow is, on the contrary, necessary to the full presence of colour; for every colour is a diminished quantity or energy of light; and, practically, it follows from what I have just told you -- (that every light in painting is a shadow to higher lights, and every shadow a light to lower shadows) -- that also every _colour_ in painting must be a shadow to some brighter colour, and a light to some darker one -- all the while being a positive colour itself.