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# colour

«colour» in Mova's school dictionary: **what you see as red, blue, green, yellow and so on** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (colour, colours); verb (colour, colours, coloured, colouring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Colour is what you see as red, blue, green, yellow and so on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#m1)

2) To colour is to fill in a picture with crayons, pencils or paint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#m2)

3) Colour is the British way to spell color. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a property that sorts things into groups; colouring parts of shapes for fractions; sorting and tally charts by colour; science: the colours of the rainbow, mixing colours, light; art: primary colours red, yellow and blue; everyday life: traffic light colours, favourite colour; safety: bright colours help drivers see you

### examples

- The bag has beads of 3 colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#x1)
- Colour 2 of the 5 squares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#x2)
- How many of each colour? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#x3)
- She has 6 colours of paint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#x4)
- The rainbow has 7 colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#x5)
- Red and yellow mixed make orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#x6)
- My favourite colour is green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#x7)
- Wear bright colours when you cycle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#x8)
- He caught four, one of each colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colour/#x9)

### note

Sorts things into groups. Trap: the number of colours is not the number of things. British «colour», US «color»; both are right.

### In the corpora

- [Laundry means sorting colours, reading labels and choosing the right temperature; a red sock in a white wash turns everything pink.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/8/)
- [Bots learned from British and American English and may mix spellings like "colour" and "color".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/9/)
- [Mixing all colours of LIGHT is different and makes white.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/2/)
- [Mixing many paint colours together makes brown or grey, because each paint soaks up different parts of the light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/6/)
- [Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow instead, which mix cleaner colours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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