What's the difference between ashen and colour?

Ashen


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
  • (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
  • (n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most defendants in multimillion-euro fraud cases turn up to court ashen-faced and sullen-looking.
  • (2) In the ashen aftermath of war, it is impossible to imagine what this place looked like before, or what really happened here.
  • (3) Of the 33 symptom complex patients, 5 had Atropine, most of whose heart rates returned to normal after 2 seconds to 2 minutes, as did their dizziness, perspiration, and ashen coloring.
  • (4) Having spent more than £1bn they do not expect to be at Wembley ashen-faced, watching a limp defeat in front of a global audience.
  • (5) Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt walk into the green room, looking ashen.
  • (6) The murine dilute suppressor gene, dsu, was previously shown to suppress the dilute coat color phenotypes of mice homozygous for the dilute (d), leaden (ln), and ashen (ash) mutations.
  • (7) On a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees, buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads.
  • (8) The last time Alan Pardew faced Sunderland he ended the afternoon ashen-faced and speaking of deep hurt.
  • (9) The bit I love was David Beckham afterwards, he was sort of ashen-faced, and he said: ‘I don’t mind people lying to me, but lying to the future King of England?
  • (10) The French president, who travelled to Nice with the prime minister, Manuel Valls, after delivering an ashen-faced TV address at 4am from the presidential palace, was under pressure to explain what concrete measures he had taken since the Paris attacks in November to crack down on the threat of terrorism.
  • (11) This goes on for several minutes until, finally, Eldar, ashen, tight-lipped, excuses himself, pulls his microphone from his shirt, and exits the studio.
  • (12) As Melancholia's star Dunst looked on ashen-faced – at one point attempting to halt his flow with a restraining arm on his shoulder – he said: "I thought I was a Jew for a long time and was very happy being a Jew ... Then it turned out that I was not a Jew ...
  • (13) Antin said an ashen-faced and “visibly shaken” O’Reilly rushed down a nearby alleyway with a secondary cameraman to film replacement shots, which were to be broadcast later as if live.
  • (14) A s the survivors of Australia 's bushfires began to emerge from the ashen landscape, so too did the stories .
  • (15) In Tatton, Cheshire, an ashen-faced George Osborne is shown on TV conceding defeat.
  • (16) Steven Gerrard and Martin Skrtel look fairly distraught, while Brendan Rodgers is ashen-faced on the sideline.
  • (17) It wasn’t hard to imagine the ashen-faced Sir Humphreys praising his “courageous” suggestions.
  • (18) All of France is under threat from Islamist terrorism,” said an ashen-faced Hollande in a televised address from the presidential palace just before 4am, hours after a driver ploughed a lorry at high speed into a crowd gathered on the Nice seafront to watch the Bastille Day fireworks.
  • (19) Some pigment is often present in the mandibles and the mature feathers display an ashen cast.
  • (20) Their ashen faces told of the real disaster hitting Japan.

Colour


Definition:

  • (n.) See Color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
  • (2) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (3) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (4) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (5) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
  • (6) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (7) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (8) Bound biocytinyl-E2 is detected after binding of streptavidin-peroxidase and colour production by the enzyme.
  • (9) Significant biases in the distribution of cases of babesiosis were found with regard to season (P < 0,05), sex (P < 0,001) and coat colour (P < 0.01).
  • (10) In order to map the mental state in the early puerperium the authors gave to a group of 100 women for five days after delivery Lüscher's colour test.
  • (11) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
  • (12) Malvidin chloride (MC) a colouring agent from flowers of Malvaviscus conzattii Greenum was studied for male anti-fertility effects in adult langur monkeys (Presbytis entellus entellus Dufresne).
  • (13) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.
  • (14) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (15) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
  • (16) Variation of scrotal colour was not due to changes in melanocyte number or dispersion of melanosomes.
  • (17) Most striking finding was his difficulty in identifying common objects and colours along with a profound alexia.
  • (18) In three the diagnosis was only suspected when the colour Doppler study showed dilated intraseptal and epicardial vessels and an abnormal flow signal into the pulmonary artery in diastole; this latter signal localised the exact site of communication, which was not apparent on angiocardiography.
  • (19) The verbal coding and recognition of colours of a group of chronic schizophrenics and their normal controls were investigated.
  • (20) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.