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Meaning of "colour-blind" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLOUR-BLIND

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLOUR-BLIND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Colour-Blind is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COLOUR-BLIND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

colour-blind

Color blindness

Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, is the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under normal lighting conditions. Color blindness affects a significant percentage of the population. There is no actual blindness but there is a deficiency of color vision. The most usual cause is a fault in the development of one or more sets of retinal cones that perceive color in light and transmit that information to the optic nerve. This type of color blindness is usually a sex-linked condition. The genes that produce photopigments are carried on the X chromosome; if some of these genes are missing or damaged, color blindness will be expressed in males with a higher probability than in females because males only have one X chromosome. Color blindness can also be produced by physical or chemical damage to the eye, the optic nerve, or parts of the brain. For example, people with achromatopsia suffer from a completely different disorder, but are nevertheless unable to see colors.

Definition of colour-blind in the English dictionary

The definition of colour-blind in the dictionary is not discriminating on grounds of skin colour or ethnic origin.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLOUR-BLIND

colour printer
colour scheme
colour separation
colour separation overlay
colour sergeant
colour slide
colour subcarrier
colour supplement
colour television
colour temperature
colour-code
colour-reversal
colourability
colourable
colourableness
colourably
colourant
colouration
coloured
colourer

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLOUR-BLIND

blind
color-blind
deafblind
double-blind
eff and blind
gender-blind
gravel-blind
half-blind
night-blind
purblind
roller blind
Roman blind
sand blind
single-blind
snow-blind
stone-blind
sun blind
swear blind
unblind
Venetian blind
word-blind

Synonyms and antonyms of colour-blind in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «colour-blind» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLOUR-BLIND

Find out the translation of colour-blind to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of colour-blind from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «colour-blind» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

色盲的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

daltónico
570 millions of speakers

English

colour-blind
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रंग अंधा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُصَاب بِعَمَى الَألْوان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

страдающий цветовой слепотой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

daltônico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বর্ণান্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

daltonien
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

buta warna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

farbblind
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

色盲の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

색맹의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Werna-wuta
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mù màu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிறக்குருடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रंग-अंध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

renk körü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

daltonico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nie widzący kolorów
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дальтонік
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

acromatopsic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δαλτωνικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kleur blind
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

färgblind
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fargeblind
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of colour-blind

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOUR-BLIND»

The term «colour-blind» is regularly used and occupies the 57.634 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOUR-BLIND» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «colour-blind» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «colour-blind» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about colour-blind

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLOUR-BLIND»

Discover the use of colour-blind in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to colour-blind and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Colour Blind
But even though there might not be much on the table, the McQueen house constantly echoes with laughter. This is what keeps them strong - when all else fails, you can always laugh.
Catherine Cookson, 1998
2
The Island of the Colour-blind
‘Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging’ Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of ...
Oliver Sacks, 2011
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The Island of the Colour-blind and Cycad Island
On the South Pacific atoll of Pingelap, Sacks finds that a startlingly high proportion of the population is colour-blind. On Guam, an endemic neurogenerative disease is linked to the island's cycads which form the islanders' staple diet
Oliver W. Sacks, 1996
4
The Island of the Colorblind
Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor.
Oliver Sacks, 2012
5
Landmarks in Medical Genetics: Classic Papers with Commentaries
A. For colour-blind man marrying woman of an unaffected strain: sons colour- blind, and normal, in equal numbers; daughters normal, but half of them able to transmit. B. For normal sister of colour-blind man marrying normal man: it is an even ...
Peter S. Harper, 2004
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Colour Blind
When two hideously eviscerated bodies are discovered and the only link between them is a bizarre painting left at each crime scene, the NYPD turns to former cop Kate McKinnon, the woman who brought the serial killer the Death Artist to ...
Jonathan Santlofer, 2007
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Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben
Do the normally sighted and thc colour-blind have the same concept of colour- blindness? The colour-blind not merely cannot learn to use our colour words, they can't Iearn to use die word "colour-blind" as a normal person does. They cannot ...
Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, 2007
8
Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research, ...
... appropriate text descriptions attached to them. Screen readers offer a variety of customization options for audio. Copyright © 2007, Idea Group Inc. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission. Colour.Blind.
Sri Kurniawan, Panayiotis Zaphiris, 2007
9
Equality, Affirmative Action and Justice
The colour-blind argument It is rather ironic that the colour-blind argument originated in Justice Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, which was directed against racial classifications harming black Americans. The ideal of colour- blindness ...
Johan Rabe, 2001
10
Colour Blind: A Practical Guide to Teaching Black Adult Learners
Recently the MacPherson Report, among others, has drawn attention to the existence of institutional racism.
Alyson Malach, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLOUR-BLIND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term colour-blind is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ishihara test: what is colour blindness, and how can you get tested?
Rather than simply mixing up red and green colours with each other, red-green colour-blind people mix up any colours that use red or green as ... «The Week UK, Jul 15»
2
Patricia Arquette: "It's weird that, in the supposedly civilised world …
But it got up the noses of some as being a colour-blind statement and further comments in the press room received criticism for being ... «Daily Life, Jul 15»
3
Lost, but now found
In general the state should be colour-blind, but the police cannot do their job well unless they make extra efforts to forge links of trust with ... «The Economist, Jul 15»
4
Colour-blind Chris Rogers ruled out of day-night Tests
Melbourne: Colour-blind Australia opener Chris Rogers has effectively ruled himself out of playing day-night Tests because he won't be able to ... «gulfnews.com, Jun 15»
5
Colour blindness is most often an inherited condition
People who are colour-blind are unable to see colours the way most people do. True colour blindness, in which everything appears black, grey ... «Bangkok Post, Jun 15»
6
Zahid assures colour-blind probe into red paint attack on DAP office
The home minister told reporters at the Parliament lobby that police and his ministry were "colour blind", when asked by reporters if the police ... «The Malaysian Insider, Jun 15»
7
Colour-blind drama
Sir, I was fortunate enough to witness Laurence Olivier's Othello at the Chichester Theatre in the mid 1960s (letter, June 15). It was spellbinding ... «The Times, Jun 15»
8
Colour-blind justice needed in the FIFA probe
With so many countries vying to host the World Cup, awarding to Russia and Qatar the privilege of hosting the tournaments is what caused the ... «Jamaica Observer, Jun 15»
9
Hasan Malek: Ministry enforcement is colour-blind
KUALA LUMPUR: Enforcement operations carried out by the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry is colour-blind and ... «The Star Online, Jun 15»
10
'Consider colour-blind CSE aspirants for non-technical posts'
Disability rights activists have written to the Secretary (Personnel), Department of Personnel and Training, pointing to the apparent oversight ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Colour-Blind [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/colour-blind>. May 2024 ».
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