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Word Meanings - ACHROMATOPSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
  • BLINDNESS
    State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.
  • INABILITY
    The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity. It is not from an inability to discover what they ought to do, that men err in practice. Blair. Syn. -- Impotence; incapacity;
  • COLORADO BEETLE
    A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
  • COLORADOITE
    Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
  • DISTINGUISH
    di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark
  • COLOR
    An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the
  • DISTINGUISHABLE
    1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
  • DISTINGUISHMENT
    Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.
  • DALTONISM
    Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. Nichol.
  • COLORIFIC
    Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
  • COLORIMETER
    An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
  • COLOR SERGEANT
    See SERGEANT
  • DISTINGUISHABLY
    So as to be distinguished.
  • DISTINGUISHING
    Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant , a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet
  • COLORATION
    The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.
  • DISTINGUISHABLENESS
    The quality of being distinguishable.
  • COLORATURE
    Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
  • CONTRADISTINGUISH
    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
  • INDISTINGUISHABLE
    Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
    A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
  • TRICOLOR
    1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
  • INDISTINGUISHING
    Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.
  • WATER-COLORIST
    One who paints in water colors.
  • DECOLOR
    To deprive of color; to bleach.
  • PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
    Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
  • IMAGINABILITY
    Capacity for imagination. Coleridge.
  • FAWN-COLORED
    Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
  • DECOLORATION
    The removal or absence of color. Ferrand.
  • TROUT-COLORED
    White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.

 

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