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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover with layer of material |
| Synonyms: | apply, cover, crust, enamel, foil, glaze, incrust, laminate, paint, plaster, plate, smear, spread, stain, surface, varnish |
| Notes: | skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals |
| Antonyms: | reveal, uncover |
| Main Entry: | glaze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | varnish, lacquer |
| Synonyms: | buff, burnish, coat, cover, enamel, furbish, glance, glass, gloss, incrust, make lustrous, make vitreous, overlay, polish, rub, shine, vitrify |
| Antonyms: | strip |
| Main Entry: | plate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coat with metallic material |
| Synonyms: | anodize, bronze, chrome, cover, electroplate, enamel, encrust, face, flake, foil, gild, laminate, layer, nickel, overlay, platinize, scale, silver, stratify |
| Notes: | dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized |
| Main Entry: | varnish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add a layer to; embellish |
| Synonyms: | adorn, coat, cover, decorate, enamel, finish, gild, glaze, gloss, japan, lacquer, luster, paint, polish, shellac, surface, veneer, wash, wax |
| Antonyms: | strip |
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| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Day, allochroous, bright, chromatic, colored, colorific, crude, deep, double, flashy, flaunting, florid, fresh, gairish, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, gorgeous, harmonious, high, intense, iridal, iridian, isochroous, mellow, multicolored, pavonine, pearly, polychromatic, prismatic, prismatoidal, raw, rich, showy, sweet, tinctorial, tingent, unfaded, vivid
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| Concept: | Color. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key., pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive color, complementary color; three primaries; spectrum, chromatic dispersion; broken color, secondary color, tertiary color., local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective., [Science of color] chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy; chromatism, chromatography, chromatology; prism, spectroscope., pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain; medium; mordant; oil paint, painting [more].
-verbs
color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct, paint, wash, ingrain, grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; paint (fine art).
-adjectives
colored; colorific, tingent, tinctorial; chromatic, prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-dyed; polychromatic; chromatogenous; tingible., bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded; rich, gorgeous; gay., gaudy, florid; gay, garish; rainbow-colored, multihued; showy, flaunting, flashy; raw, crude; glaring, flaring; discordant, inharmonious., mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.
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| Antonyms: | achromatism |
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