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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

彩色する

Pronunciation / Transliteration: saishoku suru

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Colorize/ˈkʌl.ə.raɪz/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"古い白黒写真をカラー化する技術が急速に進歩している。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To add color to a black-and-white photograph, film, or digital image, either manually or using computer algorithms.

    "Historians used advanced digital software to colorize the vintage documentary footage from the 1920s."
  2. 2

    To impart color onto something that was previously colorless or monochrome.

    "The graphics engine is designed to colorize the wireframe models in real time."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'color' (from Old French 'color', ultimately from Latin 'color') combined with the English suffix '-ize' (from Greek '-ίζειν'). Emerging in the late 19th century, the term gained modern prominence with the advent of digital technology and the process of adding color to historically black-and-white films or photographs.

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