technicolor
/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.
Uncountable
adj
Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.
noun
A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.
American usage
noun
Example Sentences
- "filmed in Technicolor [collocation in movie credits]"
- "It was his opinion that 1946's Do You Love Me, a Technicolor musical, would go down much better with 'industrial audiences' than the 'better class' of viewer."
- "I can stand the sight of worms / And look at microscopic germs / But technicolor pachyderms / Is really too much for me"
- "Technicolour dreams are all I see / Technicolour dreams of you and me"
- "On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene / But yours was kitchen clean / Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home"
- "It's so hard to be a technicolor girl in an earth-tone world."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- Proto-Indo-European *téḱ-sneh₂der. Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti Proto-Hellenic *légō Ancient Greek λέγω (légō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek -λόγος (-lógos) Ancient Greek τεχνολόγος (tekhnológos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología)lbor. English technology Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color blend English Technicolor Blend of technology + color. A trademark (1916), in reference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of its three developers met.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkʌl.ə(ɹ)/
Usage
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Informal