coloring

• colouring (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
• Homophone: culler
• Hyphenation: col‧or

coloring (comparative more coloring, superlative most coloring)

1. That colors something.
2. (also figuratively) That conveys or imparts color.

coloring (countable and uncountable, plural colorings)

1. An act or process which applies color.
2. Any substance used to give color.

   Synonym: pigment

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   • 2025 April 22, Sony Salzman, Cheyenne Haslett, Will McDuffie, and Mary Kekatos, “RFK Jr. unveils plan to phase out 8 artificial food dyes in the US”, in ABC News‎^[1]:

     The Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday a series of measures to phase out eight artificial food dyes and colorings from America's food supply by the end of next year. […] The proposal also outlined a commitment for companies to supply food for school lunches that does not include artificial dyes or coloring.

3. The appearance as to color.

   Synonym: coloration

   • 1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8:

     The Rolands, both U.S.-educated lawyers with faculty positions in the national law school, are olive skinned, with the coloring of some Italians or Sephardic Jews.

4. A disguise or discoloration.
5. (graph theory) An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.

coloring

1. present participle and gerund of color

• bleach
• neutral
• shade

• distinction
• mark

• food colouring (food coloring)

• crooling