Phrase Hound found 111 phrases and 93 compound words that contain colour. The most common are listed below. Open colour in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 111
- colour televisionA colour system of transmitting and receiving television signals.
- colour schemea colourway
- primary colourAny of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours.
- colour wheelA planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite.
- secondary colourAny of three colours derived from mixing two primary colours.
- colour revolutionAny of various related revolutionary movements that developed in several societies in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans during the early 2000s, mostly using nonviolent resistance.
- colour codeAny system where colours are used to categorize elements of sets.
- colour barThe segregation of people of different colour or race, especially any barrier to black people participating in activities with white people.
- complementary colourEither of two colours which, when mixed, produce a white or grey.
- false colourHaving colours that are different from those of reality, especially such that the colours used correspond to some physical or spectral significance (e.g. representing temperature, wavelength, species of microbe, or other meaning).
- play of colourAlternative form of play of color: An optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts with a gemstone, causing it to appear to change color.
- tertiary colourAny colour that results from the mixing of two secondary colours, or of a primary colour and an adjacent secondary colour.
- colour barsplural of colour bar: The segregation of people of different colour or race, especially any barrier to black people participating in activities with white people.
- colour centreColor center.
- colour chargeAlternative spelling of color charge: In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and …
- colour codesplural of colour code: Any system where colours are used to categorize elements of sets.
- colour fieldUK form of color field.
- colour forceA fundamental force that is associated with the strong nuclear force, created by the associated bosons known as gluons, between quarks and other subatomic particles, by way of the colour charge
- colour spaceAlternative form of color space: A numerical representation of all the possible colors/colours in a particular display or printing system.
- colour TVAlternative spelling of color TV: color television.
- deep colourAlternative form of deep color: Graphics with 30 or more bits of storage per pixel, allowing for billions of distinct colors.
- eye colourAlternative spelling of eye color: The color or pigment of the iris of the eye.
- high colourAlternative spelling of high color: graphics with two bytes of storage per pixel, allowing for up to 65536 different colors
- local colourAlternative spelling of local color: Aspects of a location that distinguish it from neighboring communities; the collective customs, mannerisms, fashions, artwork, accents or traditions of an area.
- off-colourAlternative spelling of off-color: Of the wrong color.
Compound words 93
- watercolourA water-soluble pigment or paint.
- colourfulBritish standard spelling of colorful.
- tricolourA flag consisting of three stripes that are either vertical or horizontal, all of equal size, and each of a different colour.
- bicolourHaving two colours
- colourableColourful.
- discolourBritish and Canadian standard spelling of discolor.
- colourwayAlternative spelling of colorway: Any of the schemes of two or more colors in which a design is available.
- overcolourTo exaggerate.
- anticolourThe property of antiquarks equivalent to that of colour in quarks.
- forecolourAny colour which stands out among others.