colored vs or

colored

noun
  • A colored article of clothing. 

  • A colored person; a person descended from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black white, Asian, Austronesian). 

adj
  • Having a color. 

  • Having prominent colors; colorful. 

  • Having a particular color or kind of color. 

  • Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way. 

  • Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense). 

  • Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.) 

or

noun
  • The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. 

  • or 

adj
  • Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. 

conj
  • Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true. 

  • Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). 

  • Connects two equivalent names. 

  • An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. 

  • Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. 

prep
  • Before; ere. Followed by "ever" or "ere". 

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