Definition of Color bar

1. Noun. Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites.

Exact synonyms: Color Line, Colour Bar, Colour Line, Jim Crow
Generic synonyms: Ideological Barrier

Definition of Color bar

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of colour bar) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Color Bar

coloproctitis
coloproctologist
coloproctology
coloproctostomy
coloptosis
colopuncture
color
color'd
color-blind
color-blind person
color-blindness
color-coordinated
color-octet
color TV
color TV tube
color bar
color bars
color bearer
color blind
color blindness
color by number
color by numbers
color charge
color charges
color chart
color circle
color code
color commentator
color commentators
color constancy

Literary usage of Color bar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Clinical Diagnosis: A Manual of Laboratory Methods by James Campbell Todd (1918)
"By means of a rack and pinion the color- bar can be moved from end to end beneath a round opening in the center of the stage. A small metal cylinder, ..."

2. The Economics of Apartheid by Stephen R. Lewis (1990)
"Shortages of skills were showing up in many sectors of the economy, and consequently the color bar was being eroded, especially by Asian and colored workers ..."

3. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by James Campbell Todd (1908)
"compartments lies directly over the color-bar. ... The number upon the scale corresponding to the portion of the color-bar which is now under the cylinder ..."

4. Essentials for the Microscopical Determination of Rock-forming Minerals and by Albert Johannsen (1922)
"... has different color, bar kevi kit с has 2V-= about 54°, с:c = 14°, and the color is brown. ..."

5. Metallurgy of Cast Iron: A Complete Exposition of the Processes Involved in by Thomas Dyson West (1897)
"The one and one-eighth inch round turned bars show a very rich dark gray color. Bar No. 26 pulled tensile 23270. This mixture proved to be an excellent iron ..."

6. Report of the United States Board Appointed to Test Iron, Steel and Other by United States, Theodore Thaddeus Sobieski Laidley, Lester Anthony Beardslee, Andrew Alexander Blair, Robert Henry Thurston, William Sooy Smith, Alexander Lyman Holley, David Smith, Henri Édouard Tresca (1881)
"7, but lighter in color. Bar No. 9 (09.84 copper, 29.89 tin).—This bar showed great lack of both strength and ductility, breaking at 300 pounds after a ..."

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