(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.
Russet
Definition:
(a.) Of a reddish brown color, or (by some called) a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color.
(a.) Coarse; homespun; rustic.
(n.) A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.
(n.) Cloth or clothing of a russet color.
(n.) A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color.
(n.) An apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the English russet, and the Roxbury russet.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the setting was spectacular : the Disney domes of St Basil’s Cathedral loomed over Nemtsov’s left shoulder, the Kremlin’s russet battlements over his right.
(2) The carboxypeptidase inhibitor from Russet Burbank potatoes (C. A. Ryan et al.
(3) A temporary exhibition opens this week in the Guildhall, near the site, and next year a permanent new visitor centre will open, possibly on the same day that the russet bones are re-interred in a newly designed tomb in the cathedral.
(4) Despite Australians’ sentimental and cultural attachment to those vast expanses of uninhabited outback, stock runs, russet fields and verdant crop lines that we romantically generalise as “the bush”, Australians have always predominantly been most comfortable dwelling and working on the coastal, urban plains where most big cities and centres are.
(5) Serves 2-4 For the filling 1 medium russet potato 50g cheddar, grated 50g cottage cheese 1 onion, sliced then caramelised in 2 tbsp butter Salt and black pepper 4 tbsp butter, for frying For the dough 260g flour ½ tsp salt 2 eggs 1 tbsp vegetable oil 4-5 tbsp water, or as needed to bring the dough together 1 Peel, then boil, the potato until tender, then mash with the cheese, onion, salt and pepper.
(6) The Egremont russet [with its characteristic matt brown skin] has a quirky nutty flavour and is great with cheese, but young consumers wouldn’t pick them up.
(7) With a sleek ebony bob, russet red lipstick and mildly unconventional outfits, Eve Ensler looks like a hippy Anna Wintour.
(8) But he confounds expectation and theatrically blows it out, at which we cut to the desert, a russet band of sand and an orange band of sky, between which the sun begins to appear.
(9) We transformed a major commercial cultivar of potato, Russet Burbank, with the coat protein genes of PVX and PVY.
(10) A low molecular weight protein inhibitor of serine proteinases from Russet Burbank potato tubers, polypeptide chymotrypsin inhibitor-1 (PCI-1), has been crystallized in complex with Streptomyces griseus proteinase B (SGPB).
(11) Gaskill would later reunite with Allio, designing in russet and ochre, and Smith, as a disgruntled, tremulous Mrs Sullen, in 1970 for a production of Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem.
(12) Proteinase inhibitor II, an inhibitor of chymotrypsin and trypsin, is a heat-stable protein with a dimeric molecular weight of 21 000 that is a component of Russet Burbank potato tubers.