Definitions
1.verbTo give something color."We could color the walls red."
2.verbTo apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons."My kindergartener loves to color."
3.verb(of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow."Her face colored as she realized her mistake."
4.verbTo affect without completely changing."That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book."
5.verbTo attribute a quality to; to portray (as)."Color me confused."
6.verbTo 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."Can this graph be 2-colored?"
7.nounA colored person.
8.noun(laundry) A colored article of clothing.
9.adjectiveHaving a color."Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding."
10.adjectiveHaving a particular color or kind of color."The room was red, with a dark-colored rug."
11.adjectiveHaving prominent colors; colorful."The singer wore a colored shirt."
12.adjectiveInfluenced pervasively but subtly."My opinions are colored by my upbringing."
13.adjectiveOf skin color other than white; in particular, black.
14.adjectiveOf neither black nor white skin color."Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites."
15.adjectiveDesignated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense)."a colored drinking fountain"