colored

adjective (colored; British coloured); verb (color, colors, colored, coloring)

«colored» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

Colored means having a color, or not plain white or black. tree →
Colored is also the past of color: filled in with color, like with crayons. tree →
Colored can also mean changed to a rich brown or other shade by long use, as with a smoked pipe. tree →

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».

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «colored» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«colored» in the school dictionary on Mova free.

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