colored
['kʌlәd]
a. 染

[建]

1. Colored lightly or faintly; tinged.
   着很很涂；染
2. I have get a roll of colored film. Please develop it and make one print each exposure.
   卷彩卷。请把冲洗，每底片印照片。
3. The little girl colored up when she realized that we were watching her drawing.
   女孩意识正看着她图，她起。

colored
[ noun ]

1. a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive

<noun.person>

[ adj ]

1. having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination

<adj.all>
colored crepe paper
the film was in color
amber-colored heads of grain

2. having skin rich in melanin pigments

<adj.all>
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
dark-skinned peoples

3. favoring one person or side over another

<adj.all>
a biased account of the trial
a decision that was partial to the defendant

4. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural

<adj.all>
a bleached blonde

Colored \Col"ored\, a.
1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

The lime rod, colored as the glede. --Chaucer.

The colored rainbow arched wide. --Spenser.

2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a
highly colored description. --Sir G. C. Lewis.

His colored crime with craft to cloke. --Spenser.

3. Of some other color than black or white.

4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; having a skin
color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied
to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored
man; the colored people. Opposite of {white} and
{caucasian}.

Syn: coloured, dark-skinned.

5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green.

Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some
other color than green. --Gray.

Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white
is. --Wood.


Color \Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Colored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Coloring}.] [F. colorer.]
1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing,
staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to
stain.

The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in
them there is nothing else than a certain power and
disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that
color. --Sir I.
Newton.

2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a
false appearance to; usually, to give a specious
appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make
plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were
colored by his prejudices.

He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express
command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. --Dryden.

3. To hide. [Obs.]

That by his fellowship he color might
Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.
--Spenser.