Betekenis van colour In het Nederlands

• 0 red, blue, green, yellow, etc.:

  • What's your favourite colour?

  • She wears a lot of bright colours.

  • What colour are your eyes?

  • Does the shirt come in any other colour?

  • I like rich jewel colours, such as purple, blue, and green.

  • Are the photos in colour or black and white?

  • I think we need a bit of colour in this room.

  • Red and yellow peppers give a little colour to the sauce.

  • literary The whole garden was ablaze with/a riot of colour (= full of different bright colours).

  • I put my new green shirt in a hot wash and the colour ran (= the colour came out of the material).

  • That walk has put some colour in your cheeks.

  • I watched the colour drain from her face as she heard the news.

  • She has a high colour (= the natural colour of her face is red).

• 1 interesting or exciting qualities or details:

  • We added your story for a bit of local colour.

  • Michael was there so that added a bit of colour to the evening's proceedings.

• 2 the natural colour of a person's skin which shows which race they belong to:

  • She felt she had not been given the job because of her colour.

  • There should be no discrimination on the grounds of color.

  • We need to protect the rights of people of colour.

  • As a woman of colour, she experiences discrimination on many levels.

• 3 (at school, college, or university) an honour given to people who have been chosen for a sports team, often represented by a special symbol on a shirt or tie:

  • She was awarded her colours for hockey/her hockey colours at the end of term.

  • regimental colours

• 4 Colour television, photography, or printing shows things in all their colours, not just in black and white.

• 5 to become a particular colour, or to make something a particular colour:

  • Do you think he colours his hair?

  • He drew a heart and coloured it red.

  • Fry the onions till they start to colour.

• 6 If something colours your opinion of something, it influences your opinion in a negative way:

  • I'm sure my views on marriage are coloured by my parents' divorce.

  • I'm trying not to let my judgment be coloured by that one incident.