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# colored

«colored» in Mova's school dictionary: **having a color, or not plain white or black** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (colored; British coloured); verb (color, colors, colored, coloring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Colored means having a color, or not plain white or black. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#m1)

2) Colored is also the past of color: filled in with color, like with crayons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#m2)

3) Colored can also mean changed to a rich brown or other shade by long use, as with a smoked pipe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: things sorted by color, or the part of a shape that is shaded (fraction = colored parts ÷ all parts); art: colored pencils, colored paper, colored chalk; science: colored light, rainbows; everyday life: colored glass, colored lights

### examples

- She has 24 colored pencils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#x1)
- 3 of the 8 parts are colored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#x2)
- He bought 5 packs of colored paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#x3)
- What fraction is colored? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#x4)
- The window has colored glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#x5)
- She colored the sky blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#x6)
- The tree has colored lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#x7)
- Draw it with colored chalk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#x8)
- One can see that he's a colored meerschaum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#x9)

### note

In fractions, colored parts ÷ all parts. Trap: «colored pencils» are just pencils counted. US spelling «colored», British «coloured».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «colored» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.