a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza"
any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"
syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours; "he was suffering from radiation"
a toxic condition caused by ingesting or inhaling mercury; acute mercury poisoning causes a metallic taste and vomiting and diarrhea and kidney problems that may lead to death
an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends"
the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "marvelous color illustrations"
add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"