technicolor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Tech=ni=col=or

CIDE DICTIONARY

technicolor, n. [a treadmark].

 the name of one process used for color cinematography; -- also used attributively.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

technicolor, n. (often attrib.)
1 propr. a process of colour cinematography using synchronized monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.
2 (usu. technicolor) colloq. a vivid colour. b artificial brilliance.

Derivative

technicolored adj.

Etymology

TECHNICAL + COLOR

THESAURUS

technicolor

3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Western, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, bright color, brightness, brilliance, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color, color film, colorfulness, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, gaiety, gorgeousness, horror picture, horse opera, intensity, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, pure color, richness, saturation, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film, vividness

ROGET THESAURUS

technicolor

Painting

N painting, depicting, drawing, design, perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy, chiaroscuro, composition, treatment, historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting, landscape painting, marine painting, still life, flower painting, scene painting, scenography, school, style, the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture, ornamental art, monochrome, polychrome, grisaille, pallet, palette, easel, brush, pencil, stump, black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel, paint, watercolor, body color, oil color, oils, oil paint, varnish, priming, gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass, enamel, encaustic painting, mosaic, tapestry, photography, heliography, color photography, sun painting, graphics, computer graphics, picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas, oil painting, fresco, cartoon, easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft, pencil drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink, sketch, outline, study, photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph, daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype, negative, positive, print, glossy print, matte print, enlargement, reduction, life-size print, instant photo, Polaroid photo, technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Polaroid, portrait, whole length, full length, half length, kitcat, head, miniature, shade, silhouette, profile, landscape, seapiece, view, scene, prospect, panorama, diorama, still life, picture gallery, exhibit, studio, atelier, pinacotheca, painted, pictorial, graphic, picturesque, pencil, oil, in pencil, fecit, delineavit, mutum est pictura poema.