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# colored

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

«colored» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Colored means having a color, or not plain white or black. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «colored» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colored/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«colored» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/colored.html) on Mova free.