Colours

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 288 Version 1.

      Main Definitions

1. 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.
2. "What's your favourite colour?"
3. "Dark colours suit you best."
4. "I like to wear bright colours."
5. chroma 1 |n| the purity of a color, or its freedom from white or gray.
6. "Watchwords, such as brightness, chroma, or opacity and translucency, have been taken into account in the coloration of Mr. Figuera."
7. chroma 2 |n| intensity of distinctive hue; saturation of a color.
8. acromatic 1 |adj| free from colour; without colour.
9. "The peak 4 magnifier consists of high-resolution achromatic lenses whose aberration has been corrected."

       Image Elements

1. bright 1 |n| the quality of being bright.
2. 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.
3. light |n| having a relatively small amount of coloring agent.
4. "Ligth colours such as pastels."
5.  "A light-colored powder."
6. opacity |n| the quality of lacking transparency or translucence.
7. "Thinner paints need black added to increase opacity."
8. reflect |n| be bright by reflecting or casting light.
9. "The windows reflected the bright afternoon sunlight."
10. refraction |n| the change in direction of a propagating wave (light or sound) when passing from one medium to another.
11. translucent |n| permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible.
12. "Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent."
13. 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

1. cool |n| inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets |ant: warm|.
2. "Cool greens and blues and violets."
3. warm |n| inducing the impression of warmth, used especially of reds and oranges and yellows |ant: cool|.
4. "Warm reds and yellows and orange".
5. 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.
6. "His face took on an unhealthy, whitish hue."
7. "Her face had lost its golden hue."
8. pigment |n| any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic colour.
9. "Haemoglobin is the red pigment found in blood."
10. rainbow |n| an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain.
11. "A rainbow of medals decorated his chest."
12. shade |n| relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body. 
13. "The dress is a light shade of pink."
14. "He uses different shades of green."
15. tint 1 |n| a quality of a given colour that differs slightly from another colour.
16. "Leaves with red and gold autumn tints."
17. tint 2 |n| a small amount of a particular colour.
18. "Paper with a yellowish ting."
19. tinge |n| a small amount of a colour.
20. "There was a pink tinge to the sky."
21. tincture |n| a quality of a given colour that differs slightly from another colour.
22. "The leaves were tinctured with a bright red."
23. tinter |n| a shade or variety of colour.
24. "The brownish tint of an old photo."
25. tone 1 |n| the particular quality of brightness, deepness, or hue of a colour.
26. tone 2 |n| one of the many different shades of a colour, each slightly darker, lighter, brighter, etc, than the next.
27. "Carpets in neutral tones give a feeling of space."
28. "A carpet in warm tones of brown and orange."

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