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colorize, colourize, v. rare.|ˈkʌləraɪz|
[f. L. color or Eng. colour + -ize.]
trans. To colour. Hence ˈcolorizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1611Florio, Muffola, a kinde of colour that Goldsmiths vse to colourise mettals. c1865J. Wylde in Circ. Sci. I. 140/1 Light..has a colourising..effect.
Restrict rare to sense in Dict. Add: b. Cinematogr., etc. To add colour to (a black-and-white film) by means of a computer; to convert to a colour film in this way.
1984What Video? Aug. 41/2 It isn't the full extent of the camera's titling facilities, for it has the unique ability to colourise external titles. 1984Time 5 Nov. 10/3 ‘Colorizing’ great movies such as Casablanca..is like spray-painting the Venus de Milo. 1986Publishers Weekly 6 June 34/1 A number of publishers have..begun colorizing movies to which they hold or have acquired exclusive rights. 1987Byte Mar. 164/2 The Oscar-winning Laurel and Hardy film, The Music Box,..was recently colorized.
Hence ˈcolorized ppl. a.
1986Video World Festive Issue 4/4 We urge you to shun any ‘colorized’ tapes and stick with the original black and white. 1989Washington Post 23 May c3/2 Segal..ranks right up there with the inventors of phone sex, colorized movies and 900-numbers. |