COLORING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coloring mean? 

• COLORING (noun)
  The noun COLORING has 3 senses:

1. a digestible substance used to give color to food

2. a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect

3. the act or process of changing the color of something

  Familiarity information: COLORING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLORING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A digestible substance used to give color to food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

coloring; colouring; food color; food coloring; food colour; food colouring

Context example:

food color made from vegetable dyes

Hypernyms ("coloring" is a kind of...):

food product; foodstuff (a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food)

Derivation:

color (add color to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

color; coloring; colour; colouring

Context example:

a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light

Hypernyms ("coloring" is a kind of...):

visual property (an attribute of vision)

Attribute:

colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)

uncolored; uncoloured (without color)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coloring"):

primary color; primary colour (any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing)

heather; heather mixture (interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color)

mottle (an irregular arrangement of patches of color)

shade; tincture; tint; tone (a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color)

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

achromatic color; achromatic colour (a color lacking hue; white or grey or black)

coloration; colouration (appearance with regard to color)

complexion; skin color; skin colour (the coloring of a person's face)

dithered color; dithered colour; nonsolid color; nonsolid colour (a color produced by a pattern of differently colored dots that together simulate the desired color)

Derivation:

color (add color to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act or process of changing the color of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

coloring; colouring

Hypernyms ("coloring" is a kind of...):

change of color (an act that changes the light that something reflects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coloring"):

tinting (the act of adding a tinge of color)

hair coloring (the act of dyeing or tinting one's hair)

dyeing (the use of dye to change the color of something permanently)

Derivation:

color (change color, often in an undesired manner)

 Context examples 

The coloring may or may not be permanent.

(Dye, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An organic compound that has wide use as a synthetic coloring agent.

(Fluorescein, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic dye with imaging and food coloring property.

(Patent Blue V Dye, NCI Thesaurus)

Pigmentation; the coloring of the skin, hair, mucous membranes, and retina of the eye.

(Pigmentation, NCI Thesaurus)

Therapeutically inactive dye or coloring agent that is a component of pharmaceutical product.

(Color Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)

Disperse blue 1 is primarily used in hair color formulations and in coloring fabrics and plastics, but has also been used as a fabric dye.

(CI Disperse Blue 1, NCI Thesaurus)

In all things he was, as Lord John had said, the very image of our Professor, save that his coloring was red instead of black.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On Mars the coloring agent is iron oxide, commonly known as rust.

(Pluto: The 'Other' Red Planet, NASA)

Cobalt sulfate is used in the electrochemical industries, as a drier in paints and inks, as a coloring agent, in storage batteries and as a supplement for Vitamin B12 deficiency.

(Cobaltous Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

Three new species of fish, aptly named Pink, Purple and Blue for their coloring, have been found at the bottom of one of the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean.

(Three New Species of Fish Found at Bottom of Pacific Ocean, VOA)