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Sentence Examples You also have the flexibility to play with the serotinal colour palettes and the vessels they are displayed in. Visceral values, which I equivalate with colour values, are closely related to thermal or temperature values. The coat of the red squirrel varies in colour with time of year and location. This colour choice is thought to be in homage to Preston North End who had recently done The Double. The Current Home ODI Kit consists of green as the primary colour and gold as the secondary colour. The Away Kit is the opposite of the Home Kit with gold as the primary colour and green as the secondary colour. These designs have sometimes been hooped, one irregular hoop or just a block colour of blue. Away from driving, in 1962 he acted as a colour commentator for ABC's Wide World of Sports for Formula One and NASCAR races. The Penderels and Colonel Careless employed coats of arms depicting an oak tree and three royal crowns, differentiated by colour. The sea at Weymouth and Brighton stimulated Constable to develop new techniques of brilliant colour and vivacious brushwork. Guernsey's traditional colour for sporting and other purposes is green and Jersey's is red. If there were any colour to hide the blemishes of this misdisposition, it should be this crimson dye. Traditional Indian dress varies in colour and style across regions and depends on various factors, including climate and faith. Butter made from the milk of Guernsey cows also has a distinctive yellow colour. Minutes are known as Hansards, and the theme colour of the meeting chamber is red as in other upper houses. Working headdress is typically a beret, whose colour indicates its wearer's type of regiment. Seatbacks now often feature small colour LCD screens for videos, television and video games. Newton noted that regardless of whether it was reflected or scattered or transmitted, it stayed the same colour. The nature and perception of colour was one such interest which he had begun at Edinburgh University while he was a student of Forbes. He was particularly interested, following the steps of Isaac Newton and Thomas Young, in the study of colour vision. Show More Sentences Maxwell was also interested in applying his theory of color perception, namely in colour photography. On 16 August 1944, he gave the world's first demonstration of a practical fully electronic colour television display. In the visual arts, illusionistic realism is the accurate depiction of lifeforms, perspective, and the details of light and colour. In July 1968 Clapton gave George Harrison a 1957 'goldtop' Gibson Les Paul that been refinished with a red colour, nicknamed Lucy. In the North, the most important Renaissance innovation was the widespread use of oil paints, which allowed for greater colour and intensity. In his later years he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by use of shimmering colour. On arrival in California, Hockney changed from oil to acrylic paint, applying it as smooth flat and brilliant colour. Visitors will be invited to walk inside the work, to immerse themselves in colour, and it will, I hope, be a contemplative and poetic experience. Grey was chosen for Madeleine's suit because it is not usually a blonde's colour, so was psychologically jarring. For example, there were 10,461 black and white TV licences in force on 31 August 2014, compared to 25,460,801 colour TV licences. It was the same size and its masthead had the title in white on a red rectangle of the same colour as the Daily Mirror. The Mint could not find a suitable metal which was sufficiently different in colour to the existing coins and which would not tarnish. The award is named after the colour palatinate associated with the university. And how marvellous were the shapes of the nepenthes, how beautiful the colour, how delicate in form! His colour is changing now, he does not have to look in the mirror, it's like a nettle-rash rising, scalding, scalding. Some examples are very dark in colour, and then the pale neurations on the elytra become almost obsolete. Monadh Ruadh refers to the colour of the soil and Cairn Gorm refers to the green scenery. In winter, the forest wildcat's main coat colour is fairly light gray, becoming richer along the back, and fading onto the flanks. The tail is the same colour as the back, with the addition of a pure black tip. The dorsal surface of the neck and head are the same colour as that of the trunk, but is lighter gray around the eyes, lips, cheeks, and chin. Show More Sentences The wildcat's summer coat has a fairly light, pure background colour, with an admixture of ochre or brown. Blake taught Catherine to write, and she helped him colour his printed poems. Its dark colour was linked to the night, while its solitary habits, proclivity to consume crops and nocturnal nature were associated with evil. There was a waste bing known by the locals as 'The Blue Billy' due to the colour of the waste there. Each band also has its own tie, which can match the kilt tartan, or is sometimes merely a block colour. The resulting blocks of colour repeat vertically and horizontally in a distinctive pattern of squares and lines known as a sett. Tartan is recorded by counting the threads of each colour that appear in the sett. The shades of colour in tartan can be altered to produce variations of the same tartan. Chemical dyes tended to produce a very strong, dark colour compared to the natural dyes. The method of identifying friend from foe was not through tartans but by the colour of ribbon worn upon the bonnet. Dress tartans tend to be made by replacing a prominent colour with the colour white. Television upgraded to colour in 1967 with regular national colour broadcasts starting from 1971 when BBC Scotland's studios were upgraded. Plain white socks came into use in the mid 1960s, and white has been the predominant colour worn since then. The colour of the stone is quite distinctive, and is typical of the Wrexham area. The old town castle walls still survive, as does the Victorian revival architecture in a pastel colour scheme. It is of a generally dark brown colour, with a pale underbelly and a dark mask across the face. The natural colour of salmon results from carotenoid pigments, largely astaxanthin, but also canthaxanthin, in the flesh. The fish is highly variable in colour, depending on the time of year and the environmental conditions of the lake where it lives. Males develop hooked jaws known as kypes and take on a brilliant red colour. The colour is between light pink and deep red, and the taste is like something between trout and salmon. Show More Sentences The external colour of the shell is often dark blue, blackish, or brown, while the interior is silvery and somewhat nacreous. The flowers are very variable with the characteristic spot at the base of the petal very variable in size and intensity of colour. John the Evangelist and Teulyddog at Carmarthen, and is referred to as black due to the colour of its binding. Gwen John's art, in its quietude and its subtle colour relationships, stands in contrast to her brother's far more vivid and assertive work. The colour of a glaze after it has been fired may be significantly different from before firing. The six tepals sometimes differ in colour from the corona and may be cream coloured to pale yellow. Aphids such as Macrosiphum euphorbiae can transmit viral diseases which affect the colour and shape of the leaves, as can Nematodes. Jebb comments that it is the flower of imminent death with its fragrance being narcotic, emphasised by its pale white colour. Two other birds took up residence at our swimming pool, which I had painted an eggplant colour, giving the water an oceany hue. Its branching type and vaguely badious colour suggest a close relationship with B. spiralifera, which shares the same habitat. In its most speeded-up form, bake-off bread might need only a few minutes in the oven to give it a crust and some colour. The colour we now know to be owing to the influence of the oxygenous gas, and the darker colour of venal blood to carbone. Major manufacturers add a small proportion of caramel to colour their cognacs. Perhaps she should colour outside the lines more often. Not that icecream was much of a step over the lines. Now individuals and teams need to be willing to colour outside the lines and not work only from inside a box, a silo, a discipline, and so on. Despite the riot of colour, these flourescent outfits did not seem like expressions of individual taste or will. He had a hawky face with a high colour and eyes like slits of blue crystal, set in a web of fine lines. They were hard but not unkind. The silk noil was slightly nubby with random flecks in an off-white colour. On the high mountain tops, species including ptarmigan, mountain hare and stoat can be seen in their white colour phase during winter months. When weathered, the colour of buildings made or faced with this stone is often described as honey or golden. Show More Sentences George Albert Smith developed the first colour film process, known as Kinemacolor, in 1906 at Southwick, West Sussex. In it Ptolemy writes about properties of light, including reflection, refraction, and colour. Ptolemy offered explanations for many phenomena concerning illumination and colour, size, shape, movement and binocular vision. Subsequently, Saint Patrick is a patriotic symbol along with the colour green and the shamrock. I am in agreement with you as far as the basic design, but not with the colour scheme you suggest. The colour now rushed into Elizabeth's cheeks in the instantaneous conviction of its being a letter from the nephew. Labour has long been identified with red, a political colour traditionally affiliated with socialism and the labour movement. In January or February, Newcastle's Chinatown is at the centre of a carnival of colour and noise as the city celebrates the Chinese New Year. The rock is composed of the microscopic skeletons of plankton which lived in the sea, hence its colour. Newton noted that regardless of whether it was reflected, scattered, or transmitted, it remained the same colour. Science also slowly came to realise the difference between perception of colour and mathematisable optics. Newton had committed himself to the doctrine that refraction without colour was impossible. He had a healthy colour in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. For example, the allele for black colour in a population of moths becoming more common. The roundel was first printed on a map cover using the Johnston typeface in June 1919, and printed in colour the following October. Graphic posters first appeared in the 1890s, and it became possible to print colour images economically in the early 20th century. A luminarium is a monumental walk-in sculpture which people enter to be moved by a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour. Another theory is that the dressing in yellow was out of respect for Catherine as yellow was said to be the Spanish colour of mourning. Daffodils also feature in celebrations in Truro, most likely due to their 'gold' colour. The Marans breed deserves inclusion in this review of utility poultry, because of the superb rich brown colour of its eggs. Show More Sentences Opor is usually whitish in colour and uses neither cinnamon or turmeric, while gulai may contain either or both. Korean curry, usually served with rice, is characterized by the golden yellow colour from turmeric. Ground coriander seed is widely used as a thickening agent, and turmeric is added for colour and its digestive qualities. Their appearance ranges from cloudy with sediment to completely clear, and their colour ranges from almost clear to amber to brown. The variations in clarity and colour are mostly due to filtering between pressing and fermentation. The colour is likely to be golden yellow with a clear appearance from the filtration. Light mild is generally similar, but pale in colour, for instance Harveys Brewery Knots of May. In the 19th century, the beer gained its customary black colour through the use of black patent malt, and became stronger in flavour. The style of the miniatures is characterized by brilliant colour and exuberant acanthus ornament. The colour and texture of Dobson's work was influenced by Venetian art, but Van Dyck's style has little apparent influence on Dobson. Many deploy broad blocks of harmoniously arranged colour and are symbolic rather than narratival. He would often clean his brush after each stroke when painting flesh, so that the colour remained constantly variable. They resemble amethysts, and vary in colour from an opaque milky mauveness to a clear deep purple. My thanks to my friends Clifford and Pauline Baillie, true Maxonians both, who helped me with local colour and phrases. It is the face of a man of about forty, with a small beard and a high colour. They have bright colour, but are like a broken stained glass window reassembled without design. He thereby got to know intimately the tone colour, the ins and outs of these and many other instruments. On 6 April 1968, the Hall was the host venue for the Eurovision Song Contest which was broadcast in colour for the first time. The show was broadcast in colour from CBS Studio 72, at 2248 Broadway in New York City. These had a larger proportion of pictures to words than earlier books, and many of their pictures were in colour. Show More Sentences After that, the player must pot another red ball, then another colour, and so on. The colour of breeches vary from hunt to hunt and are generally of one colour, though two or three colours throughout the year may be permitted. Malachite's green colour is also representative of the green field of play. The blue and white quartered shirts were used until 1894, when the club adopted the city's colour of red. For the first time, the crest was rendered in colour, which varied slightly over the crest's lifespan, finally becoming red, gold and green. In most species the dorsolateral aerophore line is conspicuous throughout the length of the stipe, generally being somewhat paler in colour than the surrounding tissue. The calculations prove that the rate of the colour transparency growth with v depends on the contribution of resonances in the inelastic antishadow rescattering. Their emphasis on brilliance of colour was a reaction to the excessive use of bitumen by earlier British artists, such as Reynolds, David Wilkie and Benjamin Robert Haydon. Marry come up with such gentlemen! though he hath lived here this many years, I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money. Cleverly camouflaged with grey felt, which exactly matched the colour of the walls, it led upwards to a barbette, or platform, perched beside the gate. More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple. Blue lights, or blue fire, is a preparation in which zinc and sulphur, or sulphur alone, are used. The particular colour is communicated by the zinc and sulphur. This text would stand out better if we put it in a box of colour. The Burdekin duck is also large, and bronze and white in colour. They are found in large numbers on the River Burdekin, from which they derive their name. This close link with Llanelli RFC has also led to the Scarlets adopting the scarlet red colour for their primary jerseys, with their secondary colours generally being blue. Finally he walked slowly into a vast Italian space, with towers and castellated roofs, and a sky the colour of dark blue ink, smooth and consistent. Another variety of mica in spangles of a yellowish gold, or whitish silver colour, is known all over the world, by the ridiculous names of cat's gold, or cat's silver. This colour scheme was the direct descendant of the colours worn by the precursor Aberdeen club, but lasted only one season before being replaced. Legislation requiring train doors to be painted in a contrasting colour to the body for visually impaired passengers resulted in white doors with a pink stripe. Silver has a brilliant white metallic luster that can take a high polish, and which is so characteristic that the name of the metal itself has become a colour name. Show More Sentences The correlation coefficient by corrgrams indicates a positive correlation and negative correlation with the colour intensity indicative of the strength of the correlation. What things should be denotated and signified by the colour. Deuteranomalous subjects show ordering behaviour similar to the behaviour of normal colour vision subjects, but less like their colleagues with deuteranopia. There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls. Exhibiting flowers in their natural colour embossed upon a purple ground. One colour falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly. The colours and patterns of the steppe wildcat vary greatly, though the general background colour of the skin on the body's upper surface is very lightly coloured. Nevertheless he began to feel off colour and when, eventually, the venom reached his brain it had the effect of increasing, rather than alleviating, his gormlessness. Although a furbearer, the wildcat's skin is of little commercial value, due to the unattractive colour of its natural state, and the difficulties present in dyeing it. A calf whose skin is of a dirty grey colour is said to have a mozy look. The kit for the subsequent season was a variation of these colours with white being used as an alternative strip in the case of a colour clash with the opposition. In 1955, the year in which Fonteyn married a Panamanian diplomat, they danced together in the first colour telecast of a ballet, NBC's production of The Sleeping Beauty. It was followed by three popular colour films starring Grace Kelly. It includes elements such as the accurate depiction of the anatomy of humans and animals, of perspective and effects of distance, and of detailed effects of light and colour. There are several different coat colour morphs ranging from black to red. Traditionally white, the predominant colour was gradually changed to optic yellow in the latter part of the 20th century to allow for improved visibility. If the player successfully pots a colour, the value of that ball is added to the player's score, and the ball is returned to its starting position on the table. Narcissi are now popular as ornamental plants for gardens, parks and as cut flowers, providing colour from the end of winter to the beginning of summer in temperate regions. This is achieved via the opponent leaving a free ball, with the black being potted as the additional colour, and then potting 15 reds and blacks with the colours. Various theories about the derivation of this term have been given, ranging from the colour of a weathered scarlet coat to the name of a purportedly famous tailor. Show More Sentences Fluorite or fluorspar is called Blue John in the Peak District, the name allegedly coming from the French Bleu et Jaune which describes the colour of the bandings. The leaves are often dark green in colour, which may help absorb a maximum of energy from weak sunshine at high latitudes or under forest canopy shade. The result was a coin copper in appearance but relatively pale in colour. In 1981, the colour scheme was changed to green with yellow stripes. Striker II features a new display with more colour and can transition between day and night seamlessly eliminating the need for separate night vision googles. The lions, often blue, have had minor changes to colour and appearance. Young and Fresnel combined Newton's particle theory with Huygens' wave theory to show that colour is the visible manifestation of light's wavelength. There was an inaugural ceremony on 28 June 1957 with Viscount Muirshiel, Secretary of State for Scotland of which some silent, colour footage survives. The manuscript derives its name from the colour of its leather binding and from its association with Hergest Court between the late 15th and early 17th century. Hirst also painted a simple colour pattern for the Beagle 2 probe. James VII ordered the colour of the bonnet be changed to red. Occasionally, colour mutations, including albinos and erythrists, occur. Each of these 'tones' involves letters with a different colour palette. The red colour also represents the red earth of Herefordshire. The winter fur of the European polecat is brownish black or blackish brown, the intensity of which is determined by the colour of the long guard hairs. Four hours live coverage of the 1967 Championships was shown on BBC Two, which was the first television channel in Europe to regularly broadcast in colour. The ball is usually white, but there is no statutory colour, black being a common colour for Kyles Athletic and fluorescent balls now being available. This bay is approached from the choir by the first marble step which is in Frosterley, a marble with beautiful madrepores of light colour on a dark ground. The common pie uses cured meat, giving the inside filling a pink colour. In 2014, Hamilton changed his helmet colour for the first time since his karting days, using a white helmet with red stripes in the shape of his 2011 design. Show More Sentences Oak barrels, which may be charred before use, contribute to the colour, taste, and aroma of the contents, imparting a desirable oaky vanillin flavour to these drinks. Porpoises do, however, lack short wavelength sensitive visual pigments in their cone cells indicating a more limited capacity for colour vision than most mammals. Whereas Funeral at Sea, which won a medal at the Paris Salon in 1891 was mostly composed in grey, The Golden Horn, Constantinople was much brighter and full of colour. Atkinson, Young Woman with a Violin, and Interior with Figures are intimist works painted in a traditional style characterised by subdued colour and transparent glazes. Alongside five time gold medalist Redgrave, Grainger, Ainslie, Wiggins and Jack Beresford are the only British Olympians to win medals of any colour in five successive Games. The flesh colour can range from a bright red to a pale pink. For garden plants the objectives are to continually expand the colour palette and to produce hardy forms, and there is a particular demand for miniature varieties. The club's supporters refer to themselves as the Amber Army in reference to the traditional club colour, and the sporting colours more widely associated with Newport. Brown ale is a style of beer with a dark amber or brown colour. Stones of a purple colour flow down the rivulets here after great rains. Newborn chicks are featherless and are dark blue or black in colour. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of colour? Words that rhyme with colour What is the past tense of colour? What is the plural of colour? What is the adverb for colour? What is the adjective for colour? What is the noun for colour? Translations for colour Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words colostrum colostomy colossuses colossus Colossians Colossian colourable colourant colouration colour-blind coloured colourfast 6-letter Words Starting With c co col colo colou