"colorize" meaning in English

See colorize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: colorizes [present, singular, third-person], colorizing [participle, present], colorized [participle, past], colorized [past]
Etymology: color + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|color|ize}} color + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} colorize (third-person singular simple present colorizes, present participle colorizing, simple past and past participle colorized)
  1. To add color to. Tags: US Synonyms (to add color to): color [colour, color], color in (english: colour in) Translations (to add color to): لَوَّنَ (lawwana) [masculine] (Arabic), värittää (Finnish), coloriser (French), colorier (French), koloryzować [imperfective] (Polish), färga (note: about clothes, hair etc) (Swedish), färglägga (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-colorize-en-verb-9cftGHx4 Disambiguation of 'to add color to': 98 2 Disambiguation of 'to add color to': 98 2
  2. (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 Categories (topical): Cinematography, Photography Translations (to convert a black and white media to color): värittää (Finnish), kolorieren (German), colorizzare (Italian), koloryzować [feminine] (Polish), färglägga (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-colorize-en-verb-LMP0VVsD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 65 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 34 66 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 32 68 Topics: arts, broadcasting, cinematography, film, hobbies, lifestyle, media, photography, television Disambiguation of 'to convert a black and white media to color': 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: colourise [British, English, Non-Oxford], colourize [British, Canadian-English, English, Oxford] Derived forms: colorization (alt: colourisation, colourization), colorizer (alt: colouriser, colourizer)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "There is a colorized version of Casablanca."
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      "sense": "to add color to",
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      "english": "colour in",
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      "word": "color in"
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      "word": "colourise"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "lawwana",
      "sense": "to add color to",
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      ],
      "word": "لَوَّنَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to add color to",
      "word": "värittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to add color to",
      "word": "coloriser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to add color to",
      "word": "colorier"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "to add color to",
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      ],
      "word": "koloryzować"
    },
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      "lang": "Swedish",
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      "sense": "to add color to",
      "word": "färga"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "to add color to",
      "word": "färglägga"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
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      "word": "värittää"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to convert a black and white media to color",
      "word": "kolorieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to convert a black and white media to color",
      "word": "colorizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to convert a black and white media to color",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "koloryzować"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to convert a black and white media to color",
      "word": "färglägga"
    }
  ],
  "word": "colorize"
}

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