| 单词 | false colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfalse colour false colour n. †(a) in water-colour painting, a lighter tint of any of the recognized colours; (b) (also false dye, = French teint faux) a fugitive as opposed to permanent dye.extracted from falseadj.adv.n.false colour a. Of things, indications, appearances: Fallacious, deceptive. Of a medium of vision: That distorts the object looked at; so in †false glass, false mirror, false spectacles. false colour (figurative): cf. colour n.1 1c, 9, 15. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > [adjective] > that distorts object looked at false1531 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] hue971 glozea1300 showingc1300 coloura1325 illusionc1340 frontc1374 simulationc1380 visage1390 cheera1393 sign?a1425 countenance?c1425 study?c1430 cloak1526 false colour1531 visure1531 face1542 masquery?1544 show1547 gloss1548 glass1552 affectation1561 colourableness1571 fashion1571 personage?1571 ostentation1607 disguise1632 lustrementa1641 grimace1655 varnish1662 masquerade1674 guisea1677 whitewash1730 varnish1743 maya1789 vraisemblance1802 Japan1856 veneering1865 veneer1868 affectedness1873 candy coating1885 simulance1885 window dressing1903 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [adjective] lyinga1225 deceptoryc1430 mockinga1529 sleight1533 prestigious?1534 illudinga1547 fallible1552 delusory1588 prestigiatory1588 illusory1599 delusive1607 deceptiousa1616 deludinga1616 flatteringa1616 delusorious1625 fallacious1626 ludificatorya1677 illusive1679 will-o'-the-wisp1682 prestigiating1716 shama1721 false1768 deceptitious1827 deceptional1830 phantasm1834 will-o'-the-wispish1842 will-o'-the-wispy1857 illusionistic1911 illusional1942 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xv. sig. Hv He wyll..sette a false colour of lernyng on propre wittes, whiche wyll be wasshed away with one shoure of raine. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 102 A false glasse. Speculum mendax. 1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes II. §79 When they wil needs have a sight of their own actions, it showes them a false glasse to looke in. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 146 The Devill makes us false spectacles. 1658 L. Womock Exam. Tilenus sig. A You seem to magnifie the riches of the divine Grace: but when we come strictly to examine it, 'tis by a false glass. 1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 359 Wit's false Mirror held up Nature's Light; Shew'd erring Pride. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 391 The true import of the evidence is duly weighed, false colours are taken off. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 173 Looking on all that passed at home..through a false medium. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. iii. 255 So false is the appetite for sleep that [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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