Coloration



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.着色法, 染色法;颜色, 色泽
• ［英］ n.着色法, 染色法 ( the method of dying) ; 颜色, 色泽 ( color)
• ［类］ 反义词: variegation ( 上杂色) -uniform coloration ( 上单色)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Date: 1617
• 1.
  • a. the state of being colored <the dark coloration of his skin
  • b. use or choice of colors (as by an artist)
  • c. arrangement of colors <the coloration of a butterfly's wing
• 2.
  • a. characteristic quality <the newspapers…took on the former coloration of the magazine — L. B. Seltzer
  • b. aspect suggesting an attitude ; persuasion <the chameleon talent for taking on the intellectual coloration of whatever idea he happened to fasten onto — Budd Schulberg
• 3. subtle variation of intensity or quality of tone wide range of coloration from the orchestra

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