The difference between Color and Iron

When used as nouns, color means the spectral composition of visible light, whereas iron means a common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.

When used as verbs, color means to cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking, whereas iron means to pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.

When used as adjectives, color means conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray, whereas iron means made of the metal iron.

check bellow for the other definitions of Color and Iron

  1. Color as a noun (uncountable):

    The spectral composition of visible light

    Examples:

    "Humans and birds can perceive color."

    "synonyms: blee"

  2. Color as a noun (countable):

    A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.

    Examples:

    "Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green."

    "synonyms: blee hue"

  3. Color as a noun (uncountable):

    Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).

    Examples:

    "He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all color"."

    "synonyms: hue shade blee"

  4. Color as a noun (uncountable):

    Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.

    Examples:

    "'Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies."

    "synonyms: [[color]] of one’s [[skin]] complexion blee ethnicity race"

  5. Color as a noun (figuratively):

    Interest, especially in a selective area.

    Examples:

    "a bit of local color'"

    "synonyms: interest"

  6. Color as a noun (heraldry):

    Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: stain"

  7. Color as a noun (in the plural):

    A standard or banner.

    Examples:

    "The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale."

    "synonyms: banner standard"

  8. Color as a noun:

    The system of color television.

    Examples:

    "This film is broadcast in color."

    "synonyms: color television"

  9. Color as a noun (in the plural):

    The flag of a nation or team.

    Examples:

    "The colors were raised over the new territory."

  10. Color as a noun (in the plural):

    Gang insignia.

    Examples:

    "Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors."

  11. Color as a noun (in the plural):

    An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.

    Examples:

    "He was awarded colors for his football."

  12. Color as a noun (military, in the plural):

    The morning ceremony of raising the flag.

  13. Color as a noun:

    In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.

    Examples:

    "Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?"

  14. Color as a noun (physics):

    A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.

  15. Color as a noun (finance, uncountable):

    A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.

  16. Color as a noun (typography):

    The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.

  17. Color as a noun (snooker):

    Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.

  18. Color as a noun:

    A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.

    Examples:

    "rfex also needs better-worded definition"

  19. Color as a noun:

    An appearance of right or authority.

    Examples:

    "Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars."

  20. Color as a noun (medicine):

    Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.

  1. Color as an adjective:

    Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

    Examples:

    "'Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white."

  1. Color as a verb (transitive):

    To give something color. To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.

    Examples:

    "We could color the walls red."

    "synonyms: dye paint stain shade tinge tint"

  2. Color as a verb (intransitive):

    To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.

    Examples:

    "My kindergartener loves to color."

    "synonyms: color in"

  3. Color as a verb (of a face):

    To become red through increased blood flow.

    Examples:

    "Her face colored as she realized her mistake."

    "synonyms: blush"

  4. Color as a verb:

    To affect without completely changing.

    Examples:

    "That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book."

    "synonyms: affect influence"

  5. Color as a verb (informal):

    To attribute a quality to.

    Examples:

    "'Color me confused."

    "synonyms: call"

  6. Color as a verb (mathematics):

    To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color.

    Examples:

    "Can this graph be two-colored?"

    "You can color any map with four colors."

  1. Iron as a noun (uncountable):

    A common, inexpensive metal, often black in color, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel.

  2. Iron as a noun (uncountable, physics, chemistry, metallurgy):

    A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.

  3. Iron as a noun (uncountable, countable, metallurgy):

    Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.

    Examples:

    "wrought iron, ductile iron, cast iron, pig iron, gray iron'"

  4. Iron as a noun (countable):

    A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.

  5. Iron as a noun (usually plural, '''''[[irons]]'''''):

    Shackles.

  6. Iron as a noun (slang):

    A handgun.

  7. Iron as a noun (uncountable):

    A dark shade of the colour/color silver.

  8. Iron as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from '''[[iron hoof]]''', rhyming with '''[[poof]]'''; countable, offensive):

    A male homosexual.

  9. Iron as a noun (golf):

    A golf club used for middle-distance shots.

  10. Iron as a noun (uncountable):

    Great strength or power.

  11. Iron as a noun (weightlifting):

    Weight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.

    Examples:

    "He lifts iron on the weekends."

  12. Iron as a noun:

    A safety curtain in a theatre

  1. Iron as an adjective (not comparable):

    Made of the metal iron.

  2. Iron as an adjective (figuratively):

    Strong , inflexible.

    Examples:

    "She had an iron will."

    "He held on with an iron grip."

    "an iron constitution"

    "'Iron men"

    "synonyms: adamant adamantine brassbound"

  1. Iron as a verb (transitive):

    To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.

  2. Iron as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

  3. Iron as a verb (transitive):

    To furnish or arm with iron.

    Examples:

    "to iron a wagon"

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