different between colored vs coloring

English

Alternative forms

• Colored (American spelling)
• coloured (British spelling)
• Coloured (British spelling)

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ?k?l?rd, IPA^(key): /?k?l??d/

Adjective

colored (comparative more colored, superlative most colored)

1. (American spelling) Having a color.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:colored

2. Having a particular color or kind of color.

3. Having prominent colors; colorful.

4. Influenced pervasively but subtly.

5. (US, now dated and sometimes offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
   • 1898, William H. Chenery, The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865, page 38:

     […] a beautiful silk standard donated to the Third Battalion by the colored ladies of the city of New York, was formally presented to the battalion.
6. (South Africa, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
7. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

Usage notes

Referring to people—in 2006 British anthropological surveys by Peter J. Aspinall et al, out of 75 general population respondents who identified as “mixed race” and one who did not, none found the term “coloured” offensive. Out of 311 student respondents who identified as “mixed race” and 15 who did not, 11 found the term “coloured” offensive.

Coordinate terms

(mixed-race):

• Asian
• black, Black
• white, White

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

colored (plural coloreds)

1. (American spelling, US, now dated and offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.
   • 2005, "Creed, OK", Carnivàle episode 17

     When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part.
     Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un.

2. (South Africa) A colored person; a person descended from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black white, Asian, Austronesian).
3. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.

Translations

Verb

colored

1. (American spelling) simple past tense and past participle of color

Further reading

• color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• cedorol, croodle, crooled, decolor

English

Alternative forms

• colouring (British)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?(?)
• Homophone: culler
• Hyphenation: col?or

Verb

coloring

1. present participle of color

Noun

coloring (countable and uncountable, plural colorings)

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

   Synonym: pigment

3. The appearance as to color.

   Synonym: coloration

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

Antonyms

• bleach
• neutral
• shade

Hypernyms

• distinction
• mark

Hyponyms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• crooling