COLOUR IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colour in mean? 

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

1. add color to

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLOUR 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 "colour 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 "colour 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 

She has more colour in her cheeks than usual, and looks, oh, so sweet.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Such a letter could not be read without putting Anne in a glow; and Mrs Smith, observing the high colour in her face, said—The language, I know, is highly disrespectful.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The door opened, and Agnes, gliding in, without a vestige of colour in her face, put her arm round his neck, and steadily said, “Papa, you are not well. Come with me!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) and Department of Plant Sciences have discovered that drought stress triggers the activity of a family of jumping genes (Rider retrotransposons) previously known to contribute to fruit shape and colour in tomatoes.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)

The manner in which he struggled through these inarticulate sentences, and, whenever he found himself getting near the name of Heep, fought his way on to it, dashed at it in a fainting state, and brought it out with a vehemence little less than marvellous, was frightful; but now, when he sank into a chair, steaming, and looked at us, with every possible colour in his face that had no business there, and an endless procession of lumps following one another in hot haste up his throat, whence they seemed to shoot into his forehead, he had the appearance of being in the last extremity.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)