COLORS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colors mean? 

• COLORS (noun)
  The noun COLORS has 2 senses:

1. a flag that shows its nationality

2. a distinguishing emblem

  Familiarity information: COLORS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLORS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flag that shows its nationality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

colors; colours

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

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

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

ensign (colors flown by a ship to show its nationality)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A distinguishing emblem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

colors; colours

Context example:

his tie proclaimed his school colors

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

emblem (special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

The adult coats come in any of the four colors, black, brown, blue, or fawn.

(Bearded Collie, NCI Thesaurus)

Coat colors can include liver or chocolate.

(American Water Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

A dye consisting of a diazotized benzidine nucleus that can have a wide variety of colors depending on the chemical groups attached at the diazo linkages.

(Benzidine Containing Dye, NCI Thesaurus)

And pied, that is of two several colors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.

(Pink, NCI Thesaurus)

They can be many different colors, from tan to brown, gray to black, or even blue.

(Birthmarks, NIH)

A new study provides evidence that the human brain’s visual system is especially sensitive to the color of faces compared to the colors of other objects or things.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

There are 2 types of photoreceptors: rods, which detect dim light and are used for night vision, and cones, which detect different colors and require brightly lit environments.

(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)

Coat colors are blue, gray, blue gray or blue merle, often with white markings, or white with markings of the darker colors.

(Old English Sheepdog, NCI Thesaurus)

Jewelers have known for centuries that impurities in diamonds produce different colors.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)