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colour-code

colour-code is the alternative form of colour code.

Meaning of colour code

Verb

colour code (third-person singular simple present colour codes, present participle colour coding, simple past and past participle colour coded)

  1. (UK, transitive) To mark items with a colour code as a means of sorting.

See all 3 meanings of colour code

Forms of colour-code

third-person singular presentcolour-codes
present participlecolour-coding
past participlecolour-coded
pastcolour-coded

Questions about colour-code

What is colour-code the alternative form of?
Colour-code is the alternative form of colour code.

Words near colour-code in the dictionary

  1. colour wheel
  2. colour wheels
  3. colour'd
  4. colour-blind
  5. colour-blindness
  6. colour-code
  7. colour-coded
  8. colour-codes
  9. colour-coding
  10. colour-coordinate
  11. colour-coordinated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colour-code (page history and authors); colour code (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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