Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit NÂș 288 Version 1.
Main Definitions
- colour |UK| / color |US| |n| the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.
- "What's your favourite colour?"
- "Dark colours suit you best."
- "I like to wear bright colours."
- chroma 1 |n| the purity of a color, or its freedom from white or gray.
- "Watchwords, such as brightness, chroma, or opacity and translucency, have been taken into account in the coloration of Mr. Figuera."
- chroma 2 |n| intensity of distinctive hue; saturation of a color.
- acromatic 1 |adj| free from colour; without colour.
- "The peak 4 magnifier consists of high-resolution achromatic lenses whose aberration has been corrected."
Image Elements
- bright 1 |n| the quality of being bright.
- bright 2 |n| Optics. the luminance of a body, apart from its hue or saturation, that an observer uses to determine the comparative luminance of another body. Pure white has the maximum brightness, and pure black the minimum brightness.
- light |n| having a relatively small amount of coloring agent.
- "Ligth colours such as pastels."
- "A light-colored powder."
- opacity |n| the quality of lacking transparency or translucence.
- "Thinner paints need black added to increase opacity."
- reflect |n| be bright by reflecting or casting light.
- "The windows reflected the bright afternoon sunlight."
- refraction |n| the change in direction of a propagating wave (light or sound) when passing from one medium to another.
- translucent |n| permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible.
- "Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent."
- transparency |n| something transparent, especially a picture, design, or the like on glass or some translucent substance, made visible by light shining through from behind.
Some Colours Elements
- cool |n| inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets |ant: warm|.
- "Cool greens and blues and violets."
- warm |n| inducing the impression of warmth, used especially of reds and oranges and yellows |ant: cool|.
- "Warm reds and yellows and orange".
- hue |n| |literary or technical| a colour or shade technical. The attribute of a colour, dependent on its dominant wavelenght, by virtue of which it is discernible as red, green, etc.
- "His face took on an unhealthy, whitish hue."
- "Her face had lost its golden hue."
- pigment |n| any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic colour.
- "Haemoglobin is the red pigment found in blood."
- rainbow |n| an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain.
- "A rainbow of medals decorated his chest."
- shade |n| relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
- "The dress is a light shade of pink."
- "He uses different shades of green."
- tint 1 |n| a quality of a given colour that differs slightly from another colour.
- "Leaves with red and gold autumn tints."
- tint 2 |n| a small amount of a particular colour.
- "Paper with a yellowish ting."
- tinge |n| a small amount of a colour.
- "There was a pink tinge to the sky."
- tincture |n| a quality of a given colour that differs slightly from another colour.
- "The leaves were tinctured with a bright red."
- tinter |n| a shade or variety of colour.
- "The brownish tint of an old photo."
- tone 1 |n| the particular quality of brightness, deepness, or hue of a colour.
- tone 2 |n| one of the many different shades of a colour, each slightly darker, lighter, brighter, etc, than the next.
- "Carpets in neutral tones give a feeling of space."
- "A carpet in warm tones of brown and orange."
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