different between colour vs warmth

English

Alternative forms

• color (American spelling)

Pronunciation

Homophone: culler

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. colour, hue, shade
2. pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
3. method (literary or rhetorical)
4. 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)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color

English

Etymology

From Middle English warmth, warmeth, wermþe, from Old English *wiermþu (“warmth”), from Proto-West Germanic *warmiþu (“warmness; warmth”), corresponding to warm +? -th. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Waarmte (“warmth”), West Frisian waarmte (“warmth”), Dutch warmte (“warmth”), German Low German Warmte, Warmt (“warmth”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w??m?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /w??m?/

Noun

warmth (countable and uncountable, plural warmths)

1. A moderate degree of heat; the sensation of being warm.
2. Friendliness, kindness or affection.
3. Fervor, intensity of emotion or expression.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XXXIII:

     "You don't know him—don't pronounce an opinion upon him," I said with warmth.

4. (art) The effect of using mostly red and yellow hues.

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