See colorize on Wiktionary
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},
{
"form": "colorizing",
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "colorized",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "colorized",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "colorise",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"uncommon"
]
},
{
"form": "colourise",
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"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "colourize",
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"British",
"Canada",
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"Oxford"
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}
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"2": "American spelling"
},
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"name": "tlb"
}
],
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"pos": "verb",
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],
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"bold_text_offsets": [
[
10,
19
]
],
"text": "The woman colorized her hair.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To add color to."
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Cinematography",
"en:Photography"
],
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{
"bold_text_offsets": [
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11,
20
]
],
"text": "There is a colorized version of Casablanca.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
139,
148
]
],
"ref": "1988 August 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Looking for America”, in Chicago Reader:",
"text": "What we see are beautiful overlapping NASA satellite photographs of the American mainland, […]taken in black and white and then luminously colorized by computer for scientific reasons.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects)."
],
"links": [
[
"photography",
"photography"
],
[
"cinematography",
"cinematography"
],
[
"black and white",
"black and white"
],
[
"color",
"color"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(photography, cinematography) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects)."
],
"tags": [
"US"
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"broadcasting",
"cinematography",
"film",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"media",
"photography",
"television"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkʌ.lə.raɪz/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "to add color to",
"topics": [
"colour",
"color"
],
"word": "color"
},
{
"english": "colour in",
"sense": "to add color to",
"translation": "colour in",
"word": "color in"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"lang_code": "ar",
"roman": "lawwana",
"sense": "to add color to",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "لَوَّنَ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to add color to",
"word": "värittää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to add color to",
"word": "coloriser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to add color to",
"word": "colorier"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to add color to",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "koloryzować"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"note": "about clothes, hair etc",
"sense": "to add color to",
"word": "färga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to add color to",
"word": "färglägga"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to convert a black and white media to color",
"word": "värittää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to convert a black and white media to color",
"word": "kolorieren"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to convert a black and white media to color",
"word": "colorizzare"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to convert a black and white media to color",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "koloryzować"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "to convert a black and white media to color",
"word": "färglägga"
}
],
"word": "colorize"
}
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