colour
part of speech
noun (colour, colours); verb (colour, colours, coloured, colouring)
meaning for a pupil
1) Colour is what you see as red, blue, green, yellow and so on. tree →
2) To colour is to fill in a picture with crayons, pencils or paint. tree →
3) Colour is the British way to spell color. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: The coat of many colours was Joseph's sign of favour. The blue, purple and scarlet woven in the priest's clothes and the tabernacle are read by the tradition as marking holiness and royalty. In the primary lessons: maths: a property that sorts things into groups; colouring parts of shapes for fractions; sorting and tally charts by colour; science: the colours of the rainbow, mixing colours, light; art: primary colours red, yellow and blue; everyday life: traffic light colours, favourite colour; safety: bright colours help drivers see you
examples
- and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said: 'This have we found. (Torah GEN.37.32, JPS 1917) tree →
- and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the weaver in colours; as the LORD commanded Moses. (Torah EXO.39.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours. (Torah GEN.37.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it glideth down smoothly; (Writings PRO.23.31, JPS 1917) tree →
- O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. (Prophets ISA.54.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- And over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, like the colour of the terrible ice, stretched forth over their heads above. (Prophets EZK.1.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- The bag has beads of 3 colours. tree →
- Colour 2 of the 5 squares. tree →
- How many of each colour? tree →
- She has 6 colours of paint. tree →
- The rainbow has 7 colours. tree →
- Red and yellow mixed make orange. tree →
- My favourite colour is green. tree →
- Wear bright colours when you cycle. tree →
- He caught four, one of each colour. tree →
note
Sorts things into groups. Trap: the number of colours is not the number of things. British «colour», US «color»; both are right.
In the corpora
- Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right temperature; a red sock in a white wash turns everything pink.
- Bots learned from British and American English and may mix spellings like "colour" and "color".
- Mixing all colours of LIGHT is different and makes white.
- Mixing many paint colours together makes brown or grey, because each paint soaks up different parts of the light.
- Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow instead, which mix cleaner colours.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «colour» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.