colouring

colouring or US coloring

Noun

1. the application of colour

2. something added to give colour

3. appearance with regard to shade and colour

4. the colour of a person's complexion

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	colouring - a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes" coloring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring food product, foodstuff - a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food
	2.	colouring - a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light" color, coloring, colour visual property - an attribute of vision primary color, primary colour - any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing heather mixture, heather - interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color mottle - an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green" tint, shade, tincture, tone - a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour - a color that has hue achromatic color, achromatic colour - a color lacking hue; white or grey or black coloration, colouration - appearance with regard to color; "her healthy coloration" complexion, skin color, skin colour - the coloring of a person's face dithered color, dithered colour, nonsolid color, nonsolid colour - a color produced by a pattern of differently colored dots that together simulate the desired color
	3.	colouring - the act or process of changing the color of something coloring change of color - an act that changes the light that something reflects tinting - the act of adding a tinge of color; "the hairdresser gave her hair a modest tinting" hair coloring - the act of dyeing or tinting one's hair dyeing - the use of dye to change the color of something permanently

Translations

colouring (US), coloring [ˈkʌlərɪŋ] colour n → colorant m (= complexion); teint m

colouring [ˈkʌlərɪŋ] colour n → Gesichtsfarbe f, Teint m;

(in food) → Farbstoff m

colouring, coloring [ˈkʌlərɪŋ] n → colorazione f (= complexion); colorito