Technicolorn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈtɛknᵻˌkʌlə/, U.S.

/ˈtɛknəˌkələr/

Forms: 1900s– Technicolor, 1900s– Technicolour. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: technology n., English color , colour n.¹

Etymology: < techn- (in technology n.) + -i- connective + color, U.S. spelling of colour n.¹On the origin of the word compare:1948 Time 22 Mar. 85/3 Herbert T. Kalmus,..the co-inventor, developer, majority stockholder and president of Technicolor,..is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (after which Technicolor was named).1980 F. E. Basten Glorious Technicolor i. 20 The name Technicolor was selected by Drs. Kalmus and Comstock as a tribute to ‘Tech [sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology],’ their alma mater.

A. n.

1. Originally: the name of a company producing cinema films that appear in colour to a viewing audience. Hence: the colour of such films. Frequently attributive, designating any of various proprietary processes of colour cinematography, and films made with such a process.A proprietary name.A number of different technologies have been used in making Technicolor films, most of them subtractive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special techniques > [noun] > in colour

Technicolor1916

1916 Mansfield (Ohio) News 16 Dec. 11/2 The Technicolor Company has been organized in New York and the first picture is soon to be made.

1917 U.S. Patent 1,231,710 1 Daniel F. Comstock,..assignor, by mesne assignments, to Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, of Boston, Massachusetts.

1930 Punch 2 Apr. 385 Show of Shows at the Tivoli, the latest and greatest of technicolour talkie reviews.

1949 D. Thomas Let. 15 July (1987) 713 I am just beginning the 1st treatment for Gainsborough of a technicolor film of ‘Vanity Fair’.

1950 S. Plath Jrnls. (2000) 22 The music jazzed out from the street cafés, and the sailors were like extras in a technicolor musical.

1976 Oxf. Compan. Film 681/1 A special projector with two apertures—one with a red filter, the other with a green filter—was needed to show early Technicolor films.

1990 R. Critchfield Among British v. 332 It's all shot in downtown Burbank in overlit bland Technicolor.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Feb. b3/6 The original Technicolor separation negatives were destroyed in the 1980s at a time when Fox was trying to purge its library of nitrate film elements.

2. Chiefly with lower-case initial. In extended use: bright, vivid colour; esp. in (in) glorious technicolour. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > [noun] > vivid colour

amel1605

oriflamme1853

Technicolor1939

1939 Eng. Jrnl. 28 529 I had the loveliest dream last night—all in technicolor.

1946 J. B. Priestley Bright Day v. 130 She looked very beautiful, and in glorious technicolour.

1962 N. Del Mar Richard Strauss iii. 85 The glorious technicolour of Strauss's orchestra.

1999 Warwick Boar 19 Jan. 11/5 Saved by the Bell meets left bank cafe in an orgasm of technicolour and Scandinavian furniture and Kenny G. Try their coffee.

3. Particle Physics. A hypothetical field, analogous to the colour force, proposed as a form of strong interaction to explain symmetry breaking without the need for a Higgs field.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > quark > [noun] > hypothetical property of bosons

Technicolor1979

hypercolour1980

1979 S. Dimopoulos & L. Susskind in Nucl. Physics B. 155 238 To replace the scalar field sector, a new family of massless fermions called ‘Techniquarks’ are introduced. The T-quark fields form electroweak doublets and N-tuplets under a new ‘Technicolor’ group.

1990 Physics Lett. B. 236 327/1 Technicolor..is an alternative mechanism for breaking electroweak symmetry which does not rely on Higgs bosons.

1994 Sci. Amer. Sept. 31/3 The technicolor particles have masses likely above a trillion electron volts.

2006 P. Woit Not even Wrong ix. 106 If anything like the Technicolour idea is true, once accelerator energies get high enough..experiments should be able to see quite different behaviour than that predicted by the standard model with the Higgs field.

B. adj. (attributive).

Of a bright, vivid colour. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > brightly coloured

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freshc1405

wanton1583

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vivid1686

strong1711

bloom-bright1832

flamboyant1851

technicolored1927

dazzle1931

Technicolora1940

fauve1967

a1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Last Tycoon (1941) v. 95 The theme..would come in some such guise as the auto horns from the technicolor boulevards below.

1960 M. Stewart My Brother Michael ii. 25 The heavy Technicolor prosperity of the plains.

1990 Sky Mag. Apr. 79 (advt.) Brilliantly cut Lycra bodies and tops in a variety of styles, packaged in a technicolour box.

2006 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 66/1 His orgiastic displays of patterned color were inspired in part by the technicolor banners that are the hallmark of Il Palio.

Compounds

Technicolor yawn n. slang (freq. humorous) an instance of vomiting; a patch of vomit; also in to do (also have) a (also the) Technicolor yawn.

ΚΠ

1964 B. Humphries in Nice Night's Entertainment (1981) 77 When I'd swallowed the last prawn I had a Technicolor yawn.

1974 Los Angeles Times 21 Apr. (Calendar section) 55/4 The Technicolor yawns..among those who drink Chivas Regal as if it were Dr. Pepper.

1988 N. Stephenson Zodiac xi. 78 We hung out..watching the cops on the CG boat do the technicolor yawn.

2006 Evening News (Edinburgh) (Nexis) 22 July 13 The..white lounge rug..now resembles a kebab-flavoured technicolour yawn.

Derivatives

ˈtechnicolored adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > brightly coloured

brightOE

gay?c1225

paintedc1400

sheenc1400

staringc1400

freshc1405

wanton1583

splendid1634

amelled1651

vivid1686

strong1711

bloom-bright1832

flamboyant1851

technicolored1927

dazzle1931

Technicolora1940

fauve1967

1927 Daily Mail (Hagerstown, Maryland) 31 May 3/1 On the same bill is found also a technicolored picture, ‘The Blue Boy’.

1940 E. Hazelton Haight Rom. Use of Anecd. in Cicero, Livy & Satirists vi. 138 We are looking at a technicolored rapidly moving cinema of Roman everyday life.

2004 Smithsonian Oct. 87/1 Fluorescent markers, which microscopists can attach to proteins within a cell, emit a technicolored glow when stimulated by the appropriate laser light.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	technicolor
释义	Technicolorn.adj. Brit. /ˈtɛknᵻˌkʌlə/, U.S. /ˈtɛknəˌkələr/ Forms: 1900s– Technicolor, 1900s– Technicolour. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: technology n., English color , colour n.¹ Etymology: < techn- (in technology n.) + -i- connective + color, U.S. spelling of colour n.¹On the origin of the word compare:1948 Time 22 Mar. 85/3 Herbert T. Kalmus,..the co-inventor, developer, majority stockholder and president of Technicolor,..is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (after which Technicolor was named).1980 F. E. Basten Glorious Technicolor i. 20 The name Technicolor was selected by Drs. Kalmus and Comstock as a tribute to ‘Tech [sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology],’ their alma mater. A. n. 1. Originally: the name of a company producing cinema films that appear in colour to a viewing audience. Hence: the colour of such films. Frequently attributive, designating any of various proprietary processes of colour cinematography, and films made with such a process.A proprietary name.A number of different technologies have been used in making Technicolor films, most of them subtractive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special techniques > [noun] > in colour Technicolor1916 1916 Mansfield (Ohio) News 16 Dec. 11/2 The Technicolor Company has been organized in New York and the first picture is soon to be made. 1917 U.S. Patent 1,231,710 1 Daniel F. Comstock,..assignor, by mesne assignments, to Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, of Boston, Massachusetts. 1930 Punch 2 Apr. 385 Show of Shows at the Tivoli, the latest and greatest of technicolour talkie reviews. 1949 D. Thomas Let. 15 July (1987) 713 I am just beginning the 1st treatment for Gainsborough of a technicolor film of ‘Vanity Fair’. 1950 S. Plath Jrnls. (2000) 22 The music jazzed out from the street cafés, and the sailors were like extras in a technicolor musical. 1976 Oxf. Compan. Film 681/1 A special projector with two apertures—one with a red filter, the other with a green filter—was needed to show early Technicolor films. 1990 R. Critchfield Among British v. 332 It's all shot in downtown Burbank in overlit bland Technicolor. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Feb. b3/6 The original Technicolor separation negatives were destroyed in the 1980s at a time when Fox was trying to purge its library of nitrate film elements. 2. Chiefly with lower-case initial. In extended use: bright, vivid colour; esp. in (in) glorious technicolour. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > [noun] > vivid colour amel1605 oriflamme1853 Technicolor1939 1939 Eng. Jrnl. 28 529 I had the loveliest dream last night—all in technicolor. 1946 J. B. Priestley Bright Day v. 130 She looked very beautiful, and in glorious technicolour. 1962 N. Del Mar Richard Strauss iii. 85 The glorious technicolour of Strauss's orchestra. 1999 Warwick Boar 19 Jan. 11/5 Saved by the Bell meets left bank cafe in an orgasm of technicolour and Scandinavian furniture and Kenny G. Try their coffee. 3. Particle Physics. A hypothetical field, analogous to the colour force, proposed as a form of strong interaction to explain symmetry breaking without the need for a Higgs field. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > quark > [noun] > hypothetical property of bosons Technicolor1979 hypercolour1980 1979 S. Dimopoulos & L. Susskind in Nucl. Physics B. 155 238 To replace the scalar field sector, a new family of massless fermions called ‘Techniquarks’ are introduced. The T-quark fields form electroweak doublets and N-tuplets under a new ‘Technicolor’ group. 1990 Physics Lett. B. 236 327/1 Technicolor..is an alternative mechanism for breaking electroweak symmetry which does not rely on Higgs bosons. 1994 Sci. Amer. Sept. 31/3 The technicolor particles have masses likely above a trillion electron volts. 2006 P. Woit Not even Wrong ix. 106 If anything like the Technicolour idea is true, once accelerator energies get high enough..experiments should be able to see quite different behaviour than that predicted by the standard model with the Higgs field. B. adj. (attributive). Of a bright, vivid colour. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > brightly coloured brightOE gay?c1225 paintedc1400 sheenc1400 staringc1400 freshc1405 wanton1583 splendid1634 amelled1651 vivid1686 strong1711 bloom-bright1832 flamboyant1851 technicolored1927 dazzle1931 Technicolora1940 fauve1967 a1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Last Tycoon (1941) v. 95 The theme..would come in some such guise as the auto horns from the technicolor boulevards below. 1960 M. Stewart My Brother Michael ii. 25 The heavy Technicolor prosperity of the plains. 1990 Sky Mag. Apr. 79 (advt.) Brilliantly cut Lycra bodies and tops in a variety of styles, packaged in a technicolour box. 2006 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 66/1 His orgiastic displays of patterned color were inspired in part by the technicolor banners that are the hallmark of Il Palio. Compounds Technicolor yawn n. slang (freq. humorous) an instance of vomiting; a patch of vomit; also in to do (also have) a (also the) Technicolor yawn. ΚΠ 1964 B. Humphries in Nice Night's Entertainment (1981) 77 When I'd swallowed the last prawn I had a Technicolor yawn. 1974 Los Angeles Times 21 Apr. (Calendar section) 55/4 The Technicolor yawns..among those who drink Chivas Regal as if it were Dr. Pepper. 1988 N. Stephenson Zodiac xi. 78 We hung out..watching the cops on the CG boat do the technicolor yawn. 2006 Evening News (Edinburgh) (Nexis) 22 July 13 The..white lounge rug..now resembles a kebab-flavoured technicolour yawn. Derivatives ˈtechnicolored adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > brightly coloured brightOE gay?c1225 paintedc1400 sheenc1400 staringc1400 freshc1405 wanton1583 splendid1634 amelled1651 vivid1686 strong1711 bloom-bright1832 flamboyant1851 technicolored1927 dazzle1931 Technicolora1940 fauve1967 1927 Daily Mail (Hagerstown, Maryland) 31 May 3/1 On the same bill is found also a technicolored picture, ‘The Blue Boy’. 1940 E. Hazelton Haight Rom. Use of Anecd. in Cicero, Livy & Satirists vi. 138 We are looking at a technicolored rapidly moving cinema of Roman everyday life. 2004 Smithsonian Oct. 87/1 Fluorescent markers, which microscopists can attach to proteins within a cell, emit a technicolored glow when stimulated by the appropriate laser light. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1916
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