# colouring

Pronunciation: say "KUL-er-ing" /ˈkʌləɹɪŋ/

## Noun

1. The work or process of adding colour to something.
   - Simple: The act of putting colour on something.
   - _Before colour film, the hand colouring of photographs was skilled and slow work._
   - _The careful colouring of each figure is what makes the pottery so expensive._
2. The colours something has, such as the shade of a person's skin, hair and eyes or the markings of an animal.
   - Simple: The colours that a person, animal or thing has.
   - _She inherited her mother's colouring: dark hair, olive skin and grey eyes._
   - _The moth's mottled colouring makes it almost invisible against the bark._
3. A substance added to something, especially food or drink, to give it colour.
   - Simple: Something you add to food or other things to change their colour.
   - _The sweets are made without artificial colourings or preservatives._
   - _A little blue colouring turned the cake mixture the shade of a summer sky._

## Verb

4. Present participle and gerund of colour: the verb's -ing form in any of its meanings, as in "she was colouring in the map" or "fear is colouring his judgement". — present participle and gerund of colour
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of colour. Use it after 'is', 'are' or 'was', or as the name of the activity.
   - _The leaves are already colouring on the beech trees along the lane._
   - _Anger was clearly colouring his judgement of the new manager._

## Adjective

5. Providing or adding colour, literally or in a figurative sense.
   - Simple: Giving colour to something.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A false appearance that disguises what something really is, or a change from something's natural colour.
- (noun) In graph theory, a way of giving every vertex of a graph a colour, normally so that vertices joined by an edge always differ.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/colouring (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).