beard vs color

beard

noun
  • Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck. 

  • The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds. 

  • The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. 

  • In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. 

  • The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster. 

  • Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn. 

  • The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle. 

  • A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. 

  • That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. 

  • A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual. 

  • The byssus of certain shellfish. 

verb
  • To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded. 

  • To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. 

  • Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual. 

  • Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape. 

  • To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills. 

color

noun
  • A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion. 

  • The flag of a nation or team. 

  • These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television). 

  • A paint. 

  • An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university. 

  • The morning ceremony of raising the flag. 

  • A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge. 

  • The spectral composition of visible light. 

  • A standard or banner. 

  • A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext. 

  • Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity. 

  • Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment. 

  • Gang insignia. 

  • Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays). 

  • A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price. 

  • Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. 

  • The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia) 

  • Any of the colored balls excluding the reds. 

  • An appearance of right or authority; color of law. 

  • A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class. 

  • Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment. 

adj
  • Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray. 

verb
  • To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. 

  • To attribute a quality to; to portray (as). 

  • To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color. 

  • To give something color. 

  • To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking. 

  • To become red through increased blood flow. 

  • To affect without completely changing. 

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