colored
part of speech
adjective (colored; British coloured); verb (color, colors, colored, coloring)
meaning for a pupil
1) Colored means having a color, or not plain white or black. tree →
2) Colored is also the past of color: filled in with color, like with crayons. tree →
3) Colored can also mean changed to a rich brown or other shade by long use, as with a smoked pipe. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: things sorted by color, or the part of a shape that is shaded (fraction = colored parts ÷ all parts); art: colored pencils, colored paper, colored chalk; science: colored light, rainbows; everyday life: colored glass, colored lights
examples
- She has 24 colored pencils. tree →
- 3 of the 8 parts are colored. tree →
- He bought 5 packs of colored paper. tree →
- What fraction is colored? tree →
- The window has colored glass. tree →
- She colored the sky blue. tree →
- The tree has colored lights. tree →
- Draw it with colored chalk. tree →
- One can see that he's a colored meerschaum. tree →
note
In fractions, colored parts ÷ all parts. Trap: «colored pencils» are just pencils counted. US spelling «colored», British «coloured».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «colored» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.