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Meanings of different colours in English

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Usage of different colours in English
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Square ceiling panels of different colours and different heights allow storage above.
The Guardian
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I have noticed that they seem to come in various different colours.
The Irish Times
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Globes similar to providers, but in many different colours, glided sedately overhead.
The Naked God
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Holst fully exploits the different colours of the orchestra's more unusual instruments.
Radio NZ
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Near it were the castellated dwellings of the keepers, painted different colours.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
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Turned into their equivalents of sensation, the different light-waves produce different colours.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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The lights, the lights of all the different colours, all around me.
Perdido Street Station
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And they were small and big, yellow and black, all different colours.
The Guardian
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Last year he asked the players to analyse each other using different colours.
The Guardian
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Scientists were hauled in to explain how people could be seeing different colours.
The Guardian
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The above fluxes are used in procuring the different colours for staining glass.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets / Or, A ...
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These they plastered over with mud and painted in different colours and designs.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
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There are so many different colours within, and the nuances that he finds.
The Guardian
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But even back then, the whole shoe that appears different colours was complicated.
The South African
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The linen is off-white and inscriptions can be done in six different colours.
The Irish Times
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The mosaic went up and the Kop formed a kaleidoscope of different colours.
The Guardian
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Different colours through the time
Different colours across language varieties
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South Africa
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