Colour

Definition

colour ( US color ) /'kʌlǝ(r)/ n ၁။ (က) [U] အေရာင္။ The garden was a mass of colour. ❍ You need more colour in this room. ❍ The leaves are changing colour. (ခ) [C] (တစ္မ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးေသာ)အေရာင္။ Red, orange, green and purple are all colours. ❍ ‘What colour is the sky?’ ‘It's blue. ’ ❍ a sky the colour of lead (ie a grey sky). See also PRIMARY COLOUR ၂။ (က) [C, U] ျခယ္ေဆး။ သုတ္ေဆး။ ဆိုးေဆး။ use plenty of bright colour in a painting ❍ She paints in water-colour(s). (ခ) [U] (ေဆး)ေရာင္စံု။ Is the film in colour or black and white? ❍ colour photography/television/printing. ၃။ [U, sing] အေသြးအေရာင္။ He has very little colour (ie is very pale). ❍ lose colour (ie become paler) ❍ She has a high colour (ie a very red face). ❍ The fresh air brought colour to their cheeks. ၄။ [U] အသားအေရာင္။ be discriminated against on account of one's colour/on grounds of colour ❍ colour prejudice. ၅။ colours [pl] ေက်ာင္း၊ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း၊ ပါတီ စသည္ကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳေသာ တံဆိပ္၊ အေရာင္။ He is racing in the royal colours (ie to show that the horse he is riding is owned by the king or queen). ၆။ colours [pl] ( Brit ) ေက်ာင္းအားကစား အသင္းအဖြဲ႕၌ အၿမဲတမ္းကစားသူ၊ ထူးခြၽန္သူအား ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ေသာဆု။ get/win one's (football) colours. ၇။ colours [pl] တပ္အလံ။ သေဘၤာအလံ။ salute the colours. ၈။ [U] (က) ေဝဆာၿမိဳင္ဆိုင္မႈ။ Her description of the area is full of colour. (ခ) (ဂီတလက္သံ)အရည္ အေသြး။ orchestral colour ❍ His playing lacks colour. v ၁။ အေရာင္ျခယ္သည္။ ေဆးျခယ္သည္။ colour a picture ❍ Lucy drew a nice picture but she coloured the sky green. ၂။ (က) အေရာင္ေျပာင္းသည္။ အေရာင္ဝင္လာသည္။ It is autumn and the leaves are beginning to colour (ie turn brown). (ခ) ~ (at sth) (ရွက္၍)မ်က္ႏွာနီသြားသည္။ She coloured (with embarrassment) at his remarks. ၃။ (esp passive) အဆိုးျမင္သေဘာ လႊမ္းမိုးသည္။ ပံုပ်က္ေစသည္။ His attitude to sex is coloured by his strict upbringing. ❍ Don't allow personal loyalty to colour your judgement. ❍ She gave a highly coloured (ie exaggerated) account of the incident. ❏ colour bar ( US color line ) n အသားအေရာင္ရိွသူကို ခြဲ ျခားႏိွမ့္ခ်ဆက္ဆံေသာ စနစ္။ ❏ colour-blind adj အေရာင္ကန္းေသာ။ colour-blindness n [U] ❏ colour code n အေရာင္ျဖင့္ခြဲျခားသတ္မွတ္သည့္ စနစ္။ colour-coded adj ❏ coloured ( US colored ) adj ၁။ (often in compounds) …အေရာင္ရိွေသာ။ …ေရာင္။ coloured chalks ❍ cream-coloured ❍ flesh-coloured. ၂။ (က) ( dated often offensive ) မ်က္ႏွာျဖဴမဟုတ္ေသာ။ (ခ) Coloured ( S African ) ေသြးေရာေသာ။ …ကျပား။ n (က) ( offensive ) မ်က္ႏွာျဖဴမ်ဳိးမဟုတ္သူ။ (ခ) Coloured ( S African ) ကျပား။ ဗႏၶတ္။ ❏ colour-fast adj အေရာင္ခိုင္ေသာ။ ေဆးခိုင္ေသာ။ ❏ colourful ( US colorful ) /-fl/ adj ၁။ ေရာင္စံုေတာက္ပ ေသာ။ a colourful dress/scene ❍ colourful material. ၂။ စိတ္ဝင္စားဖြယ္ေကာင္းေသာ။ ေပၚလြင္ထင္ရွားေသာ။ a colourful character/life/story/period of history. ❏ colour sth in [ PHRV ] အေရာင္ျခယ္သည္။ The child coloured in all her drawings with a crayon. ❏ colouring n ၁။ (က) [U] အေရာင္ျခယ္ျခင္း။ Children enjoy colouring. ❍ a colouring book. (ခ) [U] ေဆးေရာင္ ျခယ္နည္းျခယ္ဟန္။ ၂။ [U] အသားအေရာင္။ She has (a) very fair colouring. ၃။ [C, U] (အစားအေသာက္) အေရာင္တင္ ေဆး။ This yoghurt contains no artificial flavouring or colouring. ❏ colourless ( US colorless ) adj ၁။ အေရာင္အဆင္း မရိွ ေသာ၊ ေဖ်ာ့ေသာ။ a colourless liquid (eg water) ❍ colourless cheeks. ၂။ မထူးျခားေသာ။ a colourless character/existence/style. ❏ colour scheme n လိုက္ဖက္မည့္ အေရာင္အေသြးမ်ား ေရြး ခ်ယ္အသံုးျပဳျခင္း။ I don't like the colour scheme in their sitting-room. ❏ colour supplement n သတင္းစာတြင္ပါေသာ ေဆးေရာင္စံု မဂၢဇင္းက႑။ အခ်ပ္ပို။ ❏ give/lend colour to sth [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဖြယ္ရာရိွသည္။ The scars on his body lent colour to his claim that he had been tortured. ❏ off colour [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေနမေကာင္းျဖစ္သည္။ feel/look/seem a little off colour. ❏ see the colour of sb's money [ IDM ] ေငြ အလံုအေလာက္ ပါမပါ ၾကည့္သည္။ Don't let him have the car until you've seen the colour of his money.

Examples

1. Pink is my favourite colour.
2. A light brown colour
3. [change colour] : Many fruits change colour as they become ripe.
4. [in colour] : His hair is reddish in colour.
5. Pot plants add colour to a room.
6. [in colour] : Are the pictures in colour or black and white?
7. I prefer wearing dark colours.
8. Mix the colours with your paintbrush.
9. People of all creeds and colours
10. Suddenly
11. the colour drained from his cheeks.
12. She giggled nervously as colour flooded her face.
13. Before you spend money on a perm or colour
14. talk to your hairdresser.
15. [add/give/bring colour to something] : The examples chosen add colour to the writing.
16. He was wearing the colours of his favourite football team.
17. [national colours] : Australia’s national colours
18. He gained his school colours for rugby.