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Noun coloring has 3 senses
  1. coloring, colouring, food coloring, food colouring, food color, food colour - a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes"
    --1 is a kind of foodstuff, food product
    Derived form: verb color1
  2. color, colour, coloring, colouring - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
    --2 is a kind of visual property
    --2 has particulars:
     heather mixture, heather; shade, tint, tincture, tone; chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour; achromatic color, achromatic colour; coloration, colouration; complexion, skin color, skin colour; nonsolid color, nonsolid colour, dithered color, dithered colour
    Derived form: verb color1
  3. coloring, colouring - the act or process of changing the color of something
    --3 is a kind of change of color
    --3 has particulars: tinting; hair coloring; dyeing
    Derived form: verb color6
,Verb color has 6 senses
  1. color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
    --1 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Antonyms: discolor
    Derived forms: noun coloration3, noun color1, noun coloring1, noun coloring2
    Sample sentence:
    They color their hair
  2. tinge, color, colour, distort - affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
    --2 is one way to affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  3. color, colour - modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
    --3 is one way to influence, act upon, work
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  4. color, colour, emblazon - decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
    --4 is one way to decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
    Derived forms: noun colorist1, noun coloration3, noun color1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  5. color, colour, gloss - gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
    --5 is one way to apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  6. discolor, discolour, colour, color - change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
    --6 is one way to change
    Derived forms: noun color1, noun coloring3
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
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