What's the difference between color and decolorate?

Color


Definition:

  • (n.) A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
  • (n.) Any hue distinguished from white or black.
  • (n.) The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
  • (n.) That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
  • (n.) That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
  • (n.) Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
  • (n.) A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
  • (n.) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.
  • (v. t.) To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.
  • (v. t.) To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.
  • (v. t.) To hide.
  • (v. i.) To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
  • (2) A sensitive color reaction after two-dimensional TLC described earlier for zeranol determination in veal samples is proposed for the detection of the zeranol metabolite zearalanone and the mycotoxin zearalenone.
  • (3) Experiment 3 showed that the color-induced increase in odor intensity is not due to subjects' preexperimental experience with particular color-odor combinations, because the increase occurred with novel ones.
  • (4) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
  • (5) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
  • (6) Contrary to previous reports, approximately 20% of the neurons in V3 were color selective in terms of showing a severalfold greater response to the best monochromatic wavelength compared with the worst.
  • (7) By using various colors, it is possible to tattoo a nipple-areola complex onto the breast that will have an illusion of projection.
  • (8) A semiautomated colorimetric assay (MTT assay), based on the ability of live cells to reduce a tetrazolium-based compound, 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT), to a purplish colored formazan product that can be measured spectrophotometrically, has recently been adapted for use in drug sensitivity analysis of cultured human tumor cell lines.
  • (9) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
  • (10) Estimated by SSST, the FAFol, which employs the stool with the highest content of 51Cr corresponding to the most carmine-colored stool, correlated closely with the FAFol based on complete stool collection (r = 0.96, n = 39, p less than 0.0001).
  • (11) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
  • (12) Although the lens did not alter stereopsis, it did produce severe color discrimination losses for normal and dichromatic subjects.
  • (13) The respiratory functions of the oropharynx, larynx, and trachea of normal human fetuses in utero were explored by means of real-time, two-dimensional ultrasonography combined with color-flow and spectral Doppler analysis.
  • (14) A precise record of gingival color helps to follow-up oral and systemic diseases.
  • (15) Duplex and color Doppler sonography have become indispensable for evaluating the major vessels of the abdomen.
  • (16) The colors of mixtures of dental opaque porcelains and modifiers were measured with use of the CIE L*a*b* uniform color space.
  • (17) It appears, therefore, that the aggregation and dispersion of pigment within the melanophores is the primary mechanism responsible for the changes in color of this species.
  • (18) This section includes a description of the presentations on the pages, the use of color in the scans, and the use of certain advanced features of the ACTA-Scanner, the scanner used for the atlas.
  • (19) The use of the pellet binder "Lingnosol FG" in broiler diets at three levels plus a control group revealed differences in the consistency, quantity and color of the caecal contents between the treated and untreated groups.
  • (20) It was concluded that visualization of the intracranial venous system with color Doppler US is possible in the majority of healthy neonates.

Decolorate


Definition:

  • (a.) Deprived of color.
  • (v. t.) To decolor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hence, the beta-lactamase activity can be measured as decolorization of the blue starch-iodine complex.
  • (2) Additional investigations concerning decolorizations have shown, that 10% sulfuric acid is as effective as hydrochloric acid-ethanol mixture.
  • (3) Thiocyanate ions themselves catalyse the decolorization of the starch-iodine complex.
  • (4) The resulting crude crystals were then dissolved in water, and subjected to decolorization with 0.5% active carbon.
  • (5) A protein that catalyzes the decoloration of dopachrome has been partially purified from B16 mouse melanoma tumors.
  • (6) After three treatments, the combination technique was found to be more effective in decolorizing the crowns and roots of teeth than Superoxol or sodium perborate alone (p less than 0.05).
  • (7) Trichloroacetic acid precipitation and hydrogen peroxide decolorization were not required with this method.
  • (8) Confirmation of the presence of lipid substances in bleached neuromelanin was obtained by repeatedly staining, decolorizing, and restaining the residuum of the pigment when utilizing the chemically nonreactive beta naphthol type Sudan combination stain, Sudan III and IV.
  • (9) The dye is not decolorized when heated in distilled water or peptone, but is decolorized by heating in glucose, glycine, or sodium dodecyl sulfate, showing that decolorization results from reaction with components of the medium.
  • (10) The authors discuss experimental data obtained in the course of investigation of the biological value of proteins of combined meat products containing decolorized blood obtained with the use of a new physical method.
  • (11) Increasing concentrations of iodine in alcohol reduce the rate of decolorization of stained bacteria, but stained Gram-negative bacteria are still readily decolorized.
  • (12) Obtaining a "decolored Spirulinae meal" has been studied first at laboratory level, then at microindustrial level (20 kg).
  • (13) Negligible BPE decolorization was exhibited by a per mutant, which lacks the ability to produce both the LIPs and the MNPs.
  • (14) The bacteria are stained, and the filter fibers are decolorized.
  • (15) Adipocytes in various size fractions can then be counted, sized, and then decolorized with hydrogen peroxide in order to quantitate the amount of radioactivity within the adipocytes.
  • (16) The age of the bacterial culture, the preparation of the smear, the fixation technic, and the mordant have an important influence on the ease with which gram-positive organisms are decolorized.
  • (17) When chlorella was treated with alkali after decolorization by methyl alcohol and then fractionated by gel filtration, the fraction showed a depressive effect.
  • (18) One week after staining the sections were decolorized and together with the unstained control sections were restained with the ABP technique using IgA, IgD, IgE, IgM, kappa and lambda light chains, S100, EMA, LCA, amylase and PCK antisera.
  • (19) Findings from this study showed a significant difference between gutta-percha alone and gutta-percha with barrier in preventing root decoloration (p less than 0.05).
  • (20) After decolorization, the smears were stained for parathyroid hormone (PTH) in an avidin-biotin complex (ABC) system, using a commercially available ABC kit (Vector Laboratories Inc.).

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