What's the difference between colour and monochrome?

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.

Monochrome


Definition:

  • (n.) A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samsung's ML2160 monochrome laser printer, for example, costs about £50.
  • (2) Less powerful image analyzers offer medium resolution, and typically work with monochrome data acquired from video cameras.
  • (3) To investigate whether erythemal responses to ultraviolet radiation alter with age, we have reviewed the results of monochromator phototesting in adults and children, and have measured the dose-response curves for UVB erythema in a further 38 subjects.
  • (4) We used a small oxygen electrode and a grating monochromator of 10 mmu half-band width to determine light-saturation curves of photosynthesis for films of Chlorella pyrenoidosa no more than 1 cell thick.
  • (5) In both cases short-term treatment with azathioprine achieved a marked clinical improvement, confirmed by testing with an irradiation monochromator.
  • (6) Compared to available filter wheel and chopper devices, the rapid scan monochromator has advantages of rapid and software-selectable wavelength control, excellent optical alignment, small size, and low cost.
  • (7) A single color image may replace the multiple monochrome density range pictures now used for portraying CT information.
  • (8) In stark monochrome, it shows a group of people striding purposefully up O’Connell Street, beneath a sky streaked by vapour trails and the Gate theatre in the background.
  • (9) Although I've learned to appreciate the grim beauty of murkiness, the washrag skies and mud so jealous it clings to every step, this emerald vision in the monochrome gloom is startling.
  • (10) Topical (0.1%) applications of 8-MOP followed by exposure to narrow bands from a monochromator in the range of 300-380 nm produced a dose-dependent inhibition of DNA synthesis.
  • (11) The decision to shoot in monochrome, which is all too often linked to a photographic nostalgia for the heady days of reportage, is fully justified here.
  • (12) Solutions of C-phycocyanin of very low concentrations were examined by sedimentation-velocity studies in the Spinco model E ultracentrifuge equipped with a photoelectric scanning system and a monochromator.
  • (13) With stylish monochrome graphics and frequently fiendish puzzles, it's a rewarding and original adventure.
  • (14) The resulting monochrome sketch-like aesthetic has the quality of a dream or nightmare where worlds are transparent and fragmented.
  • (15) A servo motor moved an optical fiber across the lower surface of the muscle to collect transmitted light, which then was passed through a grating monochromator and onto a photomultiplier for spatial measurements of scattering (SMS) and transmittance spectra.
  • (16) As test sites, unexposed skin on the upper back was selected for irradiation using a prism monochromator and a 1 kW xenon arc source.
  • (17) The advent of layered synthetic microstructures, used primarily as wide-bandpass X-ray monochromators, heralded a new era in the use of XSW to study biologically relevant structures with a length scale of the order of tens of Angströms.
  • (18) Measurements of the spectral emmissivity, epsilon (lambda), of human skin described in a previous paper were performed with a modified monochromator by comparing the radiation from the skin with blackbody radiation in the wavelength range between 2 and 14 mum.
  • (19) Thus an intensified monochrome video camera has been equipped with a synchronized color filter wheel, and the image displayed by multiplexing alternate lines to a red green blue (RGB) monitor.
  • (20) Dunham, who looked glamorous in a monochrome 50s-style floral dress by Erdem, was joined at the screening by co-stars Allison Williams, who plays her screen best friend Marnie Michaels, and Zosia Mamet (Shoshanna Shapiro) as well as long-time fan Richard E Grant, who guest stars in the coming series.