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adj
- Of a red hue.
- (particle physics) Of a red color charge.
- (of a dog or its coat) Having a brown color.
- (of the skin) Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
- (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
- (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
- (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
- (US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.
- Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- characterized by violence or bloodshed
- (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
- of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
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- (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
- (countable, informal, UK, birdwatching) A redshank.
- (countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.
- (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- (derogatory, offensive) An American Indian.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
- (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.
- (countable, informal) A red variety of an animal, such as a red kangaroo or a red squirrel.
- (informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
- (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) Red lemonade
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
- (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
- (slang, uncountable) Tomato ketchup.
- red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
- emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
- the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
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- a vivid purplish-red color
- A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
- A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
- any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti
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- (pathology) A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
- (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
- (countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.
- (US, naval slang) A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
- (uncountable) Clipping of grapeshot.
- (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
- (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
- (countable, uncountable) A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A person's head.
- any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
- any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
- a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
verb
- To pick grapes.
- Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
- To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
- (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
- (Northern UK) To grope.
- (Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).
noun
- A purplish-red colour.
- Any of various primulaceous flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
- Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals
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- A rich dark red, somewhat brownish, color.
- a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
- (slang, derogatory) An idiot; a fool.
- (nautical) A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (for example, to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid).
- An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
- A castaway; a person who has been marooned.
- an exploding firework used as a warning signal
- a person who is stranded (as on an island)
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- A red color.
- A rose-shaped badge of support or membership (e.g., of a political party).
- A rose-shaped arrangement awarded as a prize won in a competition (e.g., a horse show).
- (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
- (music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.
- (architecture) An element or ornament resembling a rose, especially on a wall or other surface, mostly for decorative purposes.
- (cooking) A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
- A rose burner.
- A small rose-shaped ornament worn as a symbol of an honorific order or military decoration, typically presented with a medal or in place of a medal (e.g., as a lapel button).
- A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal.
- (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
- A floral pattern in latte art.
- A form of knot.
- (zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
- (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
- (medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.
- (pathology) Synonym of worm-star.
- (cooking) A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
- (oceanography) A rosette sampler.
- (architecture, now uncommon) A rose window.
- an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor
- rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
- circular window filled with tracery
- a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)
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- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- of a light shade of red
- Having conjunctivitis.
- (informal) Relating to women or girls.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
- By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
noun
- a light shade of red
- (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- Pale red.
- (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
- (slang) The vagina or vulva.
- Alternative form of pinko.
- A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- A huntsman.
- a person with mildly leftist political views
- any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
verb
- To prick with a sword.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
noun
- A deep red colour.
- a deep and vivid red color
- A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
- (typography) A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
- A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
- (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
- (rhyming slang) Alternative letter-case form of Ruby (“curry”).
- A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
- a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
- a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
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- a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury
- large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
- (in “Cinnabar Panacea”) The Elixir of Life.
- A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.
- Synonym of dragon's blood (“type of resin”).
- A bright red colour tinted with orange.
- (countable) A species of erebid moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
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- A deep reddish colour, like that of the dye.
- A dye made from the plant.
- A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
- The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
- Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin
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- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
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- A brown colour, with a tint of red.
- Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
- A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
- Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially
- The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
- Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
- East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
- large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
- any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
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- liver of an animal used as meat
- large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes
- someone who lives in a place
- a person who has a special life style
- Someone who is alive: one of the living.
- (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
- Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
- (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
- (uncommon) Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
- A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
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- a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
- A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and light blue.
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- The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.
- Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.
- Specifically, iron saffron.
- a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment
- a red pigment composed in part from ferric oxide which is often used in paints and cosmetics
- a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians
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- (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- (uncountable) Blackness.
- (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
- (countable, slang) A black person.
- (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
- a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
- a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
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- (uncountable) The vivid red colour of this dye.
- (uncountable) A vivid red dye made from the dried bodies of cochineal insects.
- (countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).
- Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
- a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects
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- Boldness; impudence.
- (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
- (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
- (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
- A bronze medal; third place.
- an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin
- a sculpture made of bronze
verb
- (transitive) To plate with bronze.
- (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
- (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
- (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (intransitive) To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.
- get a tan, from wind or sun
- give the color and appearance of bronze to something
noun
- A reddish-brown color.
- (UK, Cockney rhyming slang) A homosexual.
- (colloquial, often derogatory, countable) A person with reddish hair; a redhead.
- (colloquial, Scotland, especially Glasgow, countable and uncountable) Any fizzy soft drink, or can or bottle of such; pop; soda.
- The plant that produces this rhizome.
- The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative.
- (colloquial, countable and uncountable) Ginger ale, or can or bottle of such (especially if dry).
- (colloquial, uncountable) Vitality, vigour, liveliness (of character).
- Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber
- perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
- liveliness and energy
- dried ground gingerroot
- pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery
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- (idiomatic, transitive) To enliven, to spice (up).
- (transitive) To apply ginger to the anus of a horse to encourage it to carry its tail high and move in a lively fashion.
- (transitive) To add ginger to.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To inspire (someone); to give a little boost to.
- To move gingerly, in a very careful and cautious manner.
- add ginger to in order to add flavor
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- A reddish-brown color.
- A strong reddish brown color.
- (philately) Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.
- A similar substance based on another metal.
- The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation; it consists mostly of iron(III) oxide (ferric oxide) and iron(II) oxide (ferrous oxide).
- A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus (Pucciniales).
- a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi
- a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
- the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water
- any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
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- (intransitive) Of a black cat or its fur, to turn rust-coloured following long periods of exposure to sunlight.
- (intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.
- (intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
- (transitive) To cause to oxidize.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
- become coated with oxide
- cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
- become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
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- The plant Rubus idaeus.
- Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
- (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate a fart, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.
- The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A physically disabled person.
- A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries
- red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
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- (countable) A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers.
- (countable, uncountable) A flower of this plant.
- (countable, uncountable) A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black.
- (countable and uncountable) A rich reddish-brown colour.
- a reddish brown dye used especially on hair
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- A purplish-red colour.
- Any of various primulaceous flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
- Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals
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- A red color.
- A rose-shaped badge of support or membership (e.g., of a political party).
- A rose-shaped arrangement awarded as a prize won in a competition (e.g., a horse show).
- (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
- (music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.
- (architecture) An element or ornament resembling a rose, especially on a wall or other surface, mostly for decorative purposes.
- (cooking) A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
- A rose burner.
- A small rose-shaped ornament worn as a symbol of an honorific order or military decoration, typically presented with a medal or in place of a medal (e.g., as a lapel button).
- A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal.
- (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
- A floral pattern in latte art.
- A form of knot.
- (zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
- (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
- (medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.
- (pathology) Synonym of worm-star.
- (cooking) A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
- (oceanography) A rosette sampler.
- (architecture, now uncommon) A rose window.
- an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor
- rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
- circular window filled with tracery
- a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)
noun
- A deep red colour.
- a deep and vivid red color
- A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
- (typography) A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
- A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
- (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
- (rhyming slang) Alternative letter-case form of Ruby (“curry”).
- A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
- a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
- a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
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- A rich dark red, somewhat brownish, color.
- a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
- (slang, derogatory) An idiot; a fool.
- (nautical) A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (for example, to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid).
- An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
- A castaway; a person who has been marooned.
- an exploding firework used as a warning signal
- a person who is stranded (as on an island)
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- a vivid purplish-red color
- A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
- A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
- any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti
noun
- A deep reddish colour, like that of the dye.
- A dye made from the plant.
- A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
- The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
- Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin
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- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- of a light shade of red
- Having conjunctivitis.
- (informal) Relating to women or girls.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
- By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
noun
- a light shade of red
- (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- Pale red.
- (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
- (slang) The vagina or vulva.
- Alternative form of pinko.
- A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- A huntsman.
- a person with mildly leftist political views
- any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
verb
- To prick with a sword.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
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- A brown colour, with a tint of red.
- Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
- A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
- Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially
- The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
- Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
- East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
- large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
- any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
adj
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- (uncountable) The vivid red colour of this dye.
- (uncountable) A vivid red dye made from the dried bodies of cochineal insects.
- (countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).
- Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
- a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects
adj
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- A reddish-brown color.
- (UK, Cockney rhyming slang) A homosexual.
- (colloquial, often derogatory, countable) A person with reddish hair; a redhead.
- (colloquial, Scotland, especially Glasgow, countable and uncountable) Any fizzy soft drink, or can or bottle of such; pop; soda.
- The plant that produces this rhizome.
- The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative.
- (colloquial, countable and uncountable) Ginger ale, or can or bottle of such (especially if dry).
- (colloquial, uncountable) Vitality, vigour, liveliness (of character).
- Other species belonging to the same family, Zingiberaceae, especially those of the genus Zingiber
- perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
- liveliness and energy
- dried ground gingerroot
- pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery
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- (idiomatic, transitive) To enliven, to spice (up).
- (transitive) To apply ginger to the anus of a horse to encourage it to carry its tail high and move in a lively fashion.
- (transitive) To add ginger to.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To inspire (someone); to give a little boost to.
- To move gingerly, in a very careful and cautious manner.
- add ginger to in order to add flavor
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- A reddish-brown color.
- A strong reddish brown color.
- (philately) Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.
- A similar substance based on another metal.
- The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation; it consists mostly of iron(III) oxide (ferric oxide) and iron(II) oxide (ferrous oxide).
- A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus (Pucciniales).
- a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi
- a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
- the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water
- any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
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- (intransitive) Of a black cat or its fur, to turn rust-coloured following long periods of exposure to sunlight.
- (intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.
- (intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
- (transitive) To cause to oxidize.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
- become coated with oxide
- cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
- become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
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- A deep reddish colour, like that of the dye.
- A dye made from the plant.
- A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
- The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
- Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin
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- Of a red hue.
- (particle physics) Of a red color charge.
- (of a dog or its coat) Having a brown color.
- (of the skin) Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
- (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
- (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
- (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
- (US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.
- Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- characterized by violence or bloodshed
- (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
- of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
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- (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
- (countable, informal, UK, birdwatching) A redshank.
- (countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.
- (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- (derogatory, offensive) An American Indian.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
- (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.
- (countable, informal) A red variety of an animal, such as a red kangaroo or a red squirrel.
- (informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
- (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) Red lemonade
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
- (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
- (slang, uncountable) Tomato ketchup.
- red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
- emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
- the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
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- a vivid purplish-red color
- A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
- A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
- any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti
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- (pathology) A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
- (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
- (countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.
- (US, naval slang) A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
- (uncountable) Clipping of grapeshot.
- (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
- (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
- (countable, uncountable) A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A person's head.
- any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
- any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
- a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
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- To pick grapes.
- Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
- To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
- (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
- (Northern UK) To grope.
- (Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).
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- A rich dark red, somewhat brownish, color.
- a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
- (slang, derogatory) An idiot; a fool.
- (nautical) A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (for example, to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid).
- An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
- A castaway; a person who has been marooned.
- an exploding firework used as a warning signal
- a person who is stranded (as on an island)
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- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- of a light shade of red
- Having conjunctivitis.
- (informal) Relating to women or girls.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
- By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
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- a light shade of red
- (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- Pale red.
- (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
- (slang) The vagina or vulva.
- Alternative form of pinko.
- A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- A huntsman.
- a person with mildly leftist political views
- any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
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- To prick with a sword.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
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- a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury
- large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
- (in “Cinnabar Panacea”) The Elixir of Life.
- A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.
- Synonym of dragon's blood (“type of resin”).
- A bright red colour tinted with orange.
- (countable) A species of erebid moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
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- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
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- liver of an animal used as meat
- large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes
- someone who lives in a place
- a person who has a special life style
- Someone who is alive: one of the living.
- (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
- Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
- (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
- (uncommon) Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
- A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
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- a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
- A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and light blue.
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- The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.
- Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.
- Specifically, iron saffron.
- a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment
- a red pigment composed in part from ferric oxide which is often used in paints and cosmetics
- a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians
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- (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- (uncountable) Blackness.
- (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
- (countable, slang) A black person.
- (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
- a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
- a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
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- A deep red colour.
- a deep and vivid red color
- A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
- (typography) A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
- A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
- (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
- (rhyming slang) Alternative letter-case form of Ruby (“curry”).
- A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
- a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
- a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
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- Boldness; impudence.
- (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
- (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
- (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
- A bronze medal; third place.
- an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin
- a sculpture made of bronze
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- (transitive) To plate with bronze.
- (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
- (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
- (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (intransitive) To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.
- get a tan, from wind or sun
- give the color and appearance of bronze to something
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- The plant Rubus idaeus.
- Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
- (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate a fart, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.
- The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A physically disabled person.
- A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries
- red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
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- (countable) A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers.
- (countable, uncountable) A flower of this plant.
- (countable, uncountable) A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black.
- (countable and uncountable) A rich reddish-brown colour.
- a reddish brown dye used especially on hair