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technicolor en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- Proto-Indo-European *téḱ-sneh₂der. Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti Proto-Hellenic *légō Ancient Greek λέγω (légō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek -λόγος (-lógos) Ancient Greek τεχνολόγος (tekhnológos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología)lbor. English technology Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color blend English Technicolor English technicolor From Technicolor.

Meanings

  1. (US, not-comparable) Extremely or excessively colourful.
    • On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene / But yours was kitchen clean / Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home 1976, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, “Kid Charlemagne”, in The Royal Scam, performed by Steely Dan:
    • How could the electrochemical processes in the lump of gray matter that is our brain give rise to or, even more mysteriously, be the dazzling technicolor play of consciousness, with its transports of joy, its stabs of anguish and its stretches of mild contentment alternating with boredom? 2007 November 18, Jim Holt, “Mind of a Rock”, in New York Times:
    • Technicolour dreams are all I see / Technicolour dreams of you and me 1968, Anthony King, “Technicolour Dreams”, in Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo, performed by Status Quo:
    • It's so hard to be a technicolor girl in an earth-tone world. 2007 May 2, “Letters”, in New York Times:
    • I can stand the sight of worms / And look at microscopic germs / But technicolor pachyderms / Is really too much for me 1941, “Pink Elephants on Parade”, in Ned Washington (lyrics), Oliver Wallace (music), Dumbo:
  2. (not-comparable) Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.

Forms

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technicolour UK, alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

supertechnicolor

technicolor en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- Proto-Indo-European *téḱ-sneh₂der. Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti Proto-Hellenic *légō Ancient Greek λέγω (légō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek -λόγος (-lógos) Ancient Greek τεχνολόγος (tekhnológos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología)lbor. English technology Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color blend English Technicolor English technicolor From Technicolor.

Meanings

  1. (US) A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.
  2. (informal) Vivid colour.
  3. A collection of theories based on quantum chromodynamics

Forms

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technicolour UK, alternative lexicographic
technicolors Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

technicolored · Technicolor yawn · technicoloured