different between imbue vs colour

English

Etymology

From Latin imbu? (“wet, moisten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?bju?/

Verb

imbue (third-person singular simple present imbues, present participle imbuing, simple past and past participle imbued)

1. (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.

2. In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

Usage notes

• Imbue takes meaning from the word imbibe, which means "to absorb or to be filled with".

Derived terms

• imbuement

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.by/

Adjective

imbue

1. feminine singular of imbu

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?im.bu.e/, [??mbu?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?im.bu.e/, [?imbu?]

Verb

imbue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of imbu?

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