1. Mais aujourd'hui, ce terme désigne surtout un procédé apparu dans la musique occidentale à partir du XIIIe siècle, et développé au siècle suivant par l'Ars nova, où il affecte non seulement le rythme mais aussi la mélodie : celle-ci, appelée color, est découpée rythmiquement selon une structure pré-établie, appelée talea. Étant donné que la talea ne respecte pas forcément le phrasé initial du color, les combinaisons de hauteurs et de durées s'avèrent souvent imprévisibles.
2. Appliquer des couleurs sur quelque chose, notamment en utilisant des crayons de couleur.
Il a colorié son dessin.
3. [noun] (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light
4. [noun] (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
5. [noun] (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
6. [noun] (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
7. [noun] (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
8. [noun] (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
9. [noun] (in the plural) A standard or banner.
10. [noun] (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
11. [noun] (in the plural) Gang insignia.
12. [noun] The system of color television.
13. [noun] (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
14. [noun] (military) (in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
15. [noun] In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.
16. [noun] (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
17. [noun] (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
18. [noun] (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
19. [noun] A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
20. [noun] An appearance of right or authority.
21. [noun] (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
22. [adjective] Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
23. [verb] To give something color.
24. [verb] (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
25. [verb] (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
26. [verb] To affect without completely changing.
27. [verb] (informal) To attribute a quality to.
28. [verb] (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color.
29. [noun] A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; 'a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light'.
30. [noun] Interest and variety and intensity; 'the Puritan Period was lacking in color'; 'the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness'.
31. [noun] The timbre of a musical sound; 'the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music'.
32. [noun] A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks).
33. [noun] An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; 'he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity'; 'he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction'; 'the situation soon took on a different color'.
34. [noun] Any material used for its color; 'she used a different color for the trim'.
35. [noun] (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; 'each flavor of quarks comes in three colors'.
36. [noun] The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation.
37. [verb] Add color to; 'The child colored the drawings'; 'Fall colored the trees'; 'colorize black and white film'.
38. [verb] Affect as in thought or feeling; 'My personal feelings color my judgment in this case'; 'The sadness tinged his life'.
39. [verb] Modify or bias; 'His political ideas color his lectures'.
40. [verb] Decorate with colors; 'color the walls with paint in warm tones'.
41. [verb] Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; 'color a lie'.
42. [verb] Change color, often in an undesired manner; 'The shirts discolored'.
43. [adjective] Having or capable of producing colors; 'color film'; 'he rented a color television'; 'marvelous color illustrations'.
