Synonyms of the word

colouration

• n. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of coloration.

choice

• n. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
• n. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
• n. Anything that can be chosen.
• n. (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
• n. (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
• n. (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
• adj. Especially good or preferred.
• adj. (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

coloration

• n. The act or art of coloring.
• n. The quality of being colored.
• n. (music) A notational devise for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation)…
• n. (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid "black notes".

coloring

• v. present participle of color.
• n. An act or process which applies color.
• n. The appearance as to color.
• n. A disguise or discoloration.

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

colouring

• n. (Britain, Canada) Alternative spelling of coloring.
• v. present participle of colour.
• v. (Britain, Canada) Alternative spelling of coloring.

option

• n. One of a set of choices that can be made.
• n. The freedom or right to choose.
• n. (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can…
• n. (graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option").
• v. To purchase an option on something.
• v. (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.

pick

• n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
• n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
• n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
• n. A choice; ability to choose.
• n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
• n. (basketball) A screen.
• n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (American football) An interception.
• n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
• n. (baseball) A pickoff.
• n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
• n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
• n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
• n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
• n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
• n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
• v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
• v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
• v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
• v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
• v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
• v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
• v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
• v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
• v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
• v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
• v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
• v. To steal; to pilfer.
• v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
• v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

quality

• n. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
• n. (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
• n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.).
• n. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed…
• n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total…
• n. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI…
• adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

selection

• n. The process or act of selecting.
• n. Something selected.
• n. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
• n. A musical piece.
• n. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

timber

• n. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
• n. (Britain, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
• n. (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy…
• n. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
• n. (archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards;…
• n. (music) A misspelling of timbre, the quality of a musical note or sound or tone, independent of its pitch…
• interj. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
• v. (transitive) To fit with timbers.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
• v. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
• v. (obsolete) To make a nest.
• v. To surmount as a timber does.

timbre

• n. The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.
• n. (heraldry) The crest on a coat of arms.

tone

• n. (music) A specific pitch.
• n. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
• n. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
• n. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
• n. General character, mood, or trend.
• n. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
• n. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking…
• n. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
• n. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
• n. The shade or quality of a colour.
• n. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
• n. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus.
• n. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy…
• n. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
• v. (transitive) to give a particular tone to.
• v. (transitive) to change the colour of.
• v. (transitive) to make (something) firmer.
• v. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour.
• v. (transitive) To utter with an affected tone.
• pron. (now dialectal) The one (of two).