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technicolor

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1. technicolor - Noun

2. technicolor - Adjective

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Technicolor (uncountable)

A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.

Technicolor (not comparable)

Using the Technicolor process.
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.

(American spelling) Extremely or excessively colourful.

(physics) Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.

(American spelling) A process of colour cinematography using synchronised monochrome films, each of a different colour, to produce a colour print.

(informal) Vivid colour.

(physics) A collection of theories based on quantum chromodynamics

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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I saw them in the grocery store [...] sitting benignly in their spinning racks, their technicolor faces looked like a not very girl-friendly amalgam of muscles, testosterone and pulpy, bloody flesh. Amber Benson

On the day Billy was born, it was like walking through a mirror and everything was Technicolor. My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family it went into sudden widescreen. Helena Bonham Carter

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. David Levithan

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor. John Mahoney

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing. Stephen Greenblatt

I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation! Donny Osmond

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