English words for '(transitive) To render pink.'
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adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
- (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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
adj
- Having conjunctivitis.
- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- (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.
- of a light shade of red
noun
- (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
- a light shade of red
verb
adj
noun
- The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
- (US, slang) A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
- Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
- (rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
- A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.
- A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
- The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
- any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry
- a soft red birthmark
- sweet fleshy red fruit
adj
noun
- a pink or reddish-pink color
- A rosy pink colour
- Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
- A scarlet colour.
- originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
- The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
- other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To become red or pink.
- (transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to pinken; to make rosy.
- (aviation, intransitive) Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
- (intransitive) To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
- (copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
- (transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
- (intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be shy, ashamed, or embarrassed (to do something).
- become rosy or reddish
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
noun
- A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
- A color between pink and cream.
- The collective noun for a group of boys.
- (uncountable, countable, cosmetics) A cosmetic, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks and lips.
- An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.
- (chiefly US) Ellipsis of blush wine.
- (figuratively) A feeling or appearance of optimism.
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
adj
noun
- (uncountable, historical, slang, Australia) Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
- A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
- (offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
- (Australia, informal) The Australasian snapper or pink snapper (Chrysophrys auratus).
- (US, Canada, Scotland, Australia, informal) The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.
- (historical) A kind of fishing schooner of New England.
- the finger farthest from the thumb
adj
noun
- Any reddish pink colour.
- In the Eton College field game, a scoring move accomplished by touching the ball down behind the opponents' goal-line (somewhat similar to the try in rugby). Originally, the player who scored the rouge had a chance to kick a goal, and the rouge was used as a tie-breaker if an equal number of goals was scored by each side. In the contemporary Eton College field game, a five-point score is awarded for kicking the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players and goes beyond the opposition's end of the pitch, and then touching the ball.
- (Canadian football) A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored.
- Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
- makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
verb
adj
noun
- a variable color averaging a deep pink
- marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs
- unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces
- the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry
- (uncountable) A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
- (countable) Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
- (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
- The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their color.
- (countable) A somewhat yellowish orange-pink color; the color of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
verb
adj
- Robust and vigorous, like a person with a red complexion (as compared to a pale one).
- Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
- (British, Australia, slang, not comparable) A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
- inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
- of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
adv
noun
noun
noun
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, sheet.
- (stock market) An asset traded at an exchange under limited reporting requirements.
- (US politics, administration) A memo within an authority containing obiter dicta or somehow avoided statements.
- An ethics memo by the United States House Committee on Ethics.
noun
- A pale pinkish brown colour.
- (chiefly BBC, historical) A day's leave an employee may take without warning or reason and not be counted as annual leave.
- A free point in a handicap real tennis match.
- (ceramics) A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
- A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
- (sports) An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
- (British parliament) Permission for an MP to be absent from a vote, granted by the whips when the absence is not likely to affect the outcome.
- A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
- a thick cream soup made from shellfish
adj
verb
noun
- a dusty pink color
- any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
- pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
- (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
- A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- A flower of the rose plant.
- (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
- (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
- A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
- The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
- A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
- A type of sex toy shaped like a rose.
- Alternative spelling of rosé.
- Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
- Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
- (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
adj
verb
adj
noun
- 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
verb
adj
noun
- a pink or reddish-pink color
- A rosy pink colour
- Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
- A scarlet colour.
- originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
- The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
- other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
adj
noun
- Any reddish pink colour.
- In the Eton College field game, a scoring move accomplished by touching the ball down behind the opponents' goal-line (somewhat similar to the try in rugby). Originally, the player who scored the rouge had a chance to kick a goal, and the rouge was used as a tie-breaker if an equal number of goals was scored by each side. In the contemporary Eton College field game, a five-point score is awarded for kicking the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players and goes beyond the opposition's end of the pitch, and then touching the ball.
- (Canadian football) A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored.
- Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
- makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To become red or pink.
- (transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to pinken; to make rosy.
- (aviation, intransitive) Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
- (intransitive) To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
- (copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
- (transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
- (intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be shy, ashamed, or embarrassed (to do something).
- become rosy or reddish
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
noun
- A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
- A color between pink and cream.
- The collective noun for a group of boys.
- (uncountable, countable, cosmetics) A cosmetic, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks and lips.
- An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.
- (chiefly US) Ellipsis of blush wine.
- (figuratively) A feeling or appearance of optimism.
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
noun
noun
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, sheet.
- (stock market) An asset traded at an exchange under limited reporting requirements.
- (US politics, administration) A memo within an authority containing obiter dicta or somehow avoided statements.
- An ethics memo by the United States House Committee on Ethics.
noun
- A pale pinkish brown colour.
- (chiefly BBC, historical) A day's leave an employee may take without warning or reason and not be counted as annual leave.
- A free point in a handicap real tennis match.
- (ceramics) A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
- A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
- (sports) An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
- (British parliament) Permission for an MP to be absent from a vote, granted by the whips when the absence is not likely to affect the outcome.
- A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
- a thick cream soup made from shellfish
adj
verb
noun
- a dusty pink color
- any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
- pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
- (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
- A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- A flower of the rose plant.
- (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
- (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
- A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
- The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
- A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
- A type of sex toy shaped like a rose.
- Alternative spelling of rosé.
- Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
- Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
- (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
adj
verb
adj
noun
- a variable color averaging a deep pink
- marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs
- unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces
- the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry
- (uncountable) A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
- (countable) Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
- (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
- The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their color.
- (countable) A somewhat yellowish orange-pink color; the color of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
- (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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
adj
- Having conjunctivitis.
- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- (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.
- of a light shade of red
noun
- (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
- a light shade of red
verb
adj
noun
- The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
- (US, slang) A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
- Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
- (rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
- A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.
- A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
- The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
- any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry
- a soft red birthmark
- sweet fleshy red fruit
verb
- (intransitive) To become red or pink.
- (transitive) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to pinken; to make rosy.
- (aviation, intransitive) Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
- (intransitive) To become red or pink in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, love, shame, excitement, or embarrassment.
- (copulative) To change skin color in the face (to a particular shade).
- (transitive) To express or make known by blushing.
- (intransitive) To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be shy, ashamed, or embarrassed (to do something).
- become rosy or reddish
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
noun
- A glow; a flush of colour, especially pink or red.
- A color between pink and cream.
- The collective noun for a group of boys.
- (uncountable, countable, cosmetics) A cosmetic, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks and lips.
- An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.
- (chiefly US) Ellipsis of blush wine.
- (figuratively) A feeling or appearance of optimism.
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
verb
adj
- Robust and vigorous, like a person with a red complexion (as compared to a pale one).
- Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
- (British, Australia, slang, not comparable) A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
- inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
- of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
adv
noun
adj
noun
- a pink or reddish-pink color
- A rosy pink colour
- Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
- A scarlet colour.
- originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
- The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
- other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
adj
adj
noun
- (uncountable, historical, slang, Australia) Methylated spirits mixed with red wine or Condy's crystals.
- A baby mouse, especially when used as food for a snake, etc.
- (offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
- (Australia, informal) The Australasian snapper or pink snapper (Chrysophrys auratus).
- (US, Canada, Scotland, Australia, informal) The smallest finger or toe of a hand or foot.
- (historical) A kind of fishing schooner of New England.
- the finger farthest from the thumb
adj
noun
- Any reddish pink colour.
- In the Eton College field game, a scoring move accomplished by touching the ball down behind the opponents' goal-line (somewhat similar to the try in rugby). Originally, the player who scored the rouge had a chance to kick a goal, and the rouge was used as a tie-breaker if an equal number of goals was scored by each side. In the contemporary Eton College field game, a five-point score is awarded for kicking the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players and goes beyond the opposition's end of the pitch, and then touching the ball.
- (Canadian football) A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored.
- Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
- makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
verb
adj
noun
- a variable color averaging a deep pink
- marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs
- unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces
- the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry
- (uncountable) A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
- (countable) Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
- (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
- The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their color.
- (countable) A somewhat yellowish orange-pink color; the color of red coral (Corallium rubrum) of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
noun
- a dusty pink color
- any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
- pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
- (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
- A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- A flower of the rose plant.
- (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
- (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
- A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
- The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
- A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
- A type of sex toy shaped like a rose.
- Alternative spelling of rosé.
- Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
- Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
- (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
adj
verb
adj
noun
- 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
verb
noun
- A pale pinkish brown colour.
- (chiefly BBC, historical) A day's leave an employee may take without warning or reason and not be counted as annual leave.
- A free point in a handicap real tennis match.
- (ceramics) A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
- A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
- (sports) An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
- (British parliament) Permission for an MP to be absent from a vote, granted by the whips when the absence is not likely to affect the outcome.
- A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
- a thick cream soup made from shellfish