The earliest senses of “color” were those related, as you’d expect, to hue, tint, pigment, etc., but almost immediately we also began to employ “color” in various figurative senses, usually regarding appearances, authority or other intangible aspects of society (“This … would at once give the movement the colour of a general revolt,” 1941). However you choose to spell it, “color” comes ultimately from Latin roots that carried the sense of “covering, concealment.” “Color” is frequently spelled “colour” in British English, reflecting its Anglo-Norman heritage, but “color” is far more frequent elsewhere. The common noun “color” first appeared in English in the early 13th century, and the verb “to color” followed in the 14th. “Color me cautious,” for instance, seems more vivid, and less dismissive, than the dull “I’m skeptical.” Of course, that “color me extremely unconvinced” is pretty dismissive, just a tad shy of declaring something (in that case, a silly theory about “moolah”) to be “utter hogwash.” But it was. But “color me” as a rhetorical device is useful. Thanks to the awesome power of The Google, I see that my website boasts one “color me envious,” one “color me cautious,” a “color me psychic,” a somewhat wobbly “color me extremely unconvinced,” and three, count ’em, three, instances of “color me stupid.” I guess “stupid” wins. I do seem to have used the phrase without explanation quite a few times in my columns. I’ve heard it and used it often myself but where, may I ask, does it come from? - Mark. The interesting thing is that my hypothesis was based on my belief that the bluer the product, the more blue dye was in it, but actually only by a fraction of an ohm were the drinks apart.Dear Word Detective: The phrase “color me ” appears numerous times on your site. The third test involved one drop of bleach and took 19 minutes, stopping at 0.599 to become colorless. The test with 2 drops of bleach went to 0.600 ohms at 15 minutes to become colorless. The results were that the solution with the most drops of bleach (four) stopped at 0.611 ohms at 17 minutes when it became clear and colorless. The last test I performed was with the bleach. The G2 Gatorade had the least amount of blue dye. They were separated by less than a 100th of an ohm. The following:Tropicana Twister Blue raspberry juice, All Star Berry Gatorade,Fierce Grape Gatorade, were all very close in the amounts of blue dye. In my test for the unknown amounts of blue dye, I found that Shasta soda had the most amount of blue dye #1. I then did a different test and took the cuvette with half water and half blue dye and placed different amounts of bleach inside each one and tracked the rate at which bleach affected the blue dye. I did one test on my colorimeter to find out how much blue dye was in each cuvette from the diluted series,then to find out how much blue dye was in the various sports drinks, I measured the different sports drinks on the colorimeter. I used the Beer Lambert law and chemical kinetics for my science fair project. Then I determined the amount of dye in the samples with unknown concentrations (sport drinks,juices,and soda)and tracked the rate of color loss in a bleach-treated solution. Then I made a set of standard solutions to convert between the data I have (resistance) and the data I want (Concentration).
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