COLOR IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does color in mean? 

• COLOR IN (verb)
  The verb COLOR IN has 1 sense:

1. add color to

  Familiarity information: COLOR IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLOR IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Add color to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize

Context example:

colorize black and white film

Hypernyms (to "color in" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "color in"):

handcolor; handcolour (color by hand)

blotch; mottle; streak (mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained)

redden (make red)

tone (change to a color image)

gray; grey (make grey)

silver (make silver in color)

retouch (give retouches to (hair))

hue; imbue (suffuse with color)

pigment (color or dye with a pigment)

tinct; tinge; tint; touch (color lightly)

blackwash (color with blackwash)

brown; embrown (make brown in color)

incarnadine (make flesh-colored)

pinkify (make pink)

verdigris (color verdigris)

aurify (turn golden)

empurple; purple; purpurate (color purple)

azure (color azure)

polychrome; polychromise; polychromize (color with many colors; make polychrome)

motley; parti-color (make motley; color with different colors)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

There is a fresh color in her brown cheeks, a soft shine in her eyes, and only gentle words fall from her sharp tongue today.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It may have varied coat length and coat color in a single or multi-colored pattern.

(Domestic Short Hair Cat, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical manifestations include pink or red color in the eyes.

(Infectious Conjunctivitis, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

There was color in her cheeks, and her eyes drew him again and again—the eyes in which he had first read immortality.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Pigmented birthmarks are made of a cluster of pigment cells which cause color in skin.

(Birthmarks, NIH)

The red color in spring mixes is currently provided by red lettuce, radicchio or chard.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

In this study, researchers sought to identify and functionally characterize regions of the human genome associated with skin color in African populations.

(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)

Acute inflammation of the conjunctiva characterized by pink or red color in the eyes.

(Acute Contagious Conjunctivitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Jo looked up and Jo looked down, then said slowly, with sudden color in her cheeks.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)