different between colour vs brightness
colour
English
Alternative forms
- color (American spelling)
Pronunciation
Homophone: culler
Noun
colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.
Adjective
colour (not comparable)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.
Related terms
- colourimeter
Verb
colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- courol, ur-cool
Middle English
Alternative forms
- colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku?lu?r/, /?kulur/
Noun
colour (plural colours or coloures)
- colour, hue, shade
- pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
- method (literary or rhetorical)
- justification, explanation (often feigned)
Descendants
- English: color, colour
- Scots: colour
References
- “c?l?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
Old French
Noun
colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color
colour From the web:
- what colours look good with grey
- what colours go with grey sofa
- what colour goes with dark purple
- what colours go with grey walls
- what colour are my eyes
- what colours make brown
- what colour is precum
- what colour is the sun
brightness
English
Etymology
From Middle English bryghtnes, brightnesse, from Old English beorhtnes (“brightness, splendor”), equivalent to bright +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?a?tn?s/
- Hyphenation: bright?ness
Noun
brightness (usually uncountable, plural brightnesses)
- The quality of being bright.
- The perceived luminance of an object.
- Intelligence, cleverness.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:intelligence
Translations
brightness From the web:
- what brightness should my monitor be
- what brightness should my phone be
- what brightness should my monitor be for photo editing
- what brightness of star is the most common
- what brightness should my monitor be for gaming
- what brightness should my tv be
- what brightness is best for eyes
- what brightness should you edit photos
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