English words for 'light orange:'
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noun
- an orange of low brightness and saturation
- (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
- (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
- (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
- A brown horse or other animal.
- (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
- (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
adj
- (of skin) deeply suntanned
- of a color similar to that of wood or earth
- (of East-Eurasian ancestry) Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
- Having a brown colour.
- (US, loosely, vague) of color.
- (of Asians and Africans) South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
- Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
- (US) Latino/Latin American
verb
- make brown in color
- fry in a pan until it changes color
- (intransitive) To become brown.
- (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
- (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
- (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
- (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
- (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
noun
- An orange colour.
- A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- any high government official or bureaucrat
adj
noun
- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour.
- a moderate yellow-orange to orange color
- Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
- A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.
- (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA".
- any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment
adj
verb
noun
- a shade of yellow tinged with orange
- dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus
- Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food
- An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.
- A plant of species Crocus sativus, a crocus.
- A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.
adj
verb
noun
- A navel orange.
- The central part or point of anything; the middle.
- (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
- (historical) An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
- the center point or middle of something
- a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
verb
verb
noun
- any pigment producing the orange color
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
- orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- (uncountable) Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
- (uncommon) Orange juice.
- (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
- (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.
- any citrus tree bearing oranges
- round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
adj
noun
- A yellow-orange colour.
- (uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
- A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
- (biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
- (British, Australia) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
- a deep yellow color
- a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry
adj
verb
noun
name
- A barangay of Bais, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
- A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
- A barangay of Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines.
- A barangay of Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines.
- A municipality of Negros Oriental, Philippines.
- The capital city of Valencia canton, Ecuador.
- The capital city of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
- A borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
- A census-designated place in Valencia County, New Mexico.
- A barangay of Tayabas, Quezon, Philippines.
- A barangay of Carcar, Cebu, Philippines.
- A canton of Los Ríos Province, Ecuador.
- An area of the barrio of Universidad in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- A barangay of Virac, Catanduanes, Philippines.
- A town in northeastern Trinidad island, Trinidad and Tobago.
- A city in Bukidnon, Philippines.
- A town and municipality of Córdoba department, in northern Colombia.
- A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
- A barangay of Lingig, Surigao del Sur, Philippines.
- The capital city of the state of Carabobo, Venezuela.
- A province of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
- An autonomous community of Spain; in full, Valencian Community.
- A habitational surname from Spanish.
- A neighborhood of the city of Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, California.
- A female given name.
- A barangay of Cagdianao, Dinagat Islands, Philippines.
- A barangay of Alegria, Cebu, Philippines.
adj
noun
- a reddish to vivid orange color
- A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
- A slightly ovoid, orange-coloured citrus fruit with a rough peel and a sour-sweet taste which is larger than a clementine and sometimes classed as a variety of mandarin orange.
- A tree that produces tangerines.
- any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
- a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin
noun
- a pale pinkish orange color
- flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
- any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
- (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
noun
- the rind of an orange
- A color between orange and amber, like that of an orange peel.
- strips of orange peel cooked in sugar and coated with sugar
- (manufacturing, uncountable) A surface defect in which sheet metal has a rough texture, similar to an orange peel, due to the metal grains being relatively large.
- An uneven surface resembling orange peel, especially cellulite or an imperfect finish on a spray-painted object such as a car.
- (countable, uncountable, literally) The skin of an orange, including the pith.
- (botany) A common name of a species of Clematis indigenous to eastern Eurasia, Clematis orientalis.
noun
- A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine
- (dance) A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
- (music) A piece of music suited to such a dance.
- (US, law enforcement, military slang) A target; an enemy.
- (dance) A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Tango from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- music written in duple time for dancing the tango
- a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin
verb
adj
noun
- A bright red colour tinted with orange.
- (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”).
- (countable) A species of erebid moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
- 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
noun
- A light brown to brownish orange colour.
- Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
- (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
- Tawny owl.
- Tawny frogmouth.
- (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”).
- (Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (slang, uncountable, uncommon) Ellipsis of orange sunshine.
- The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.
- The effect which the sun has when it lights and warms some place.
- A source of cheerfulness or joy.
- (UK, Ireland) Ironic form of address used to an inferior or troublemaker.
- (humorous) Used to address someone who has just woken up and/or is very sleepy.
- A location on which the sun's rays fall.
- (UK, Ireland) Friendly form of address often reserved for juniors.
- (figurative) Geniality or cheerfulness.
- the rays of the sun
- the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
- moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities
adj
noun
- The calyx of an orange.
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- (aviation) The end of a runway.
- (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
- (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
- (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- (botany) A bud.
- (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- (slang) The clitoris.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
- an electrical switch operated by pressing
- a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action
- any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
- a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- any artifact that resembles a button
- a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
- a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc. to fit through buttonholes
verb
noun
- A pinkish-orange color. Any color in between scarlet and orange.
- Bittersweetness.
- Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).
- A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.
- (US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.
- Any variety of clam in the family Glycymerididae
- twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
- poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
adj
noun
- an orange of low brightness and saturation
- (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
- (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
- (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
- A brown horse or other animal.
- (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
- (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
adj
- (of skin) deeply suntanned
- of a color similar to that of wood or earth
- (of East-Eurasian ancestry) Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
- Having a brown colour.
- (US, loosely, vague) of color.
- (of Asians and Africans) South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
- Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
- (US) Latino/Latin American
verb
- make brown in color
- fry in a pan until it changes color
- (intransitive) To become brown.
- (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
- (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
- (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
- (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
- (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
noun
- An orange colour.
- A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- any high government official or bureaucrat
adj
noun
- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour.
- a moderate yellow-orange to orange color
- Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
- A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.
- (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA".
- any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment
adj
verb
noun
- a shade of yellow tinged with orange
- dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus
- Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food
- An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.
- A plant of species Crocus sativus, a crocus.
- A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.
adj
verb
noun
- A navel orange.
- The central part or point of anything; the middle.
- (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
- (historical) An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
- the center point or middle of something
- a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
verb
noun
- A yellow-orange colour.
- (uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
- A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
- (biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
- (British, Australia) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
- a deep yellow color
- a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry
adj
verb
noun
name
- A barangay of Bais, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
- A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
- A barangay of Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines.
- A barangay of Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines.
- A municipality of Negros Oriental, Philippines.
- The capital city of Valencia canton, Ecuador.
- The capital city of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
- A borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
- A census-designated place in Valencia County, New Mexico.
- A barangay of Tayabas, Quezon, Philippines.
- A barangay of Carcar, Cebu, Philippines.
- A canton of Los Ríos Province, Ecuador.
- An area of the barrio of Universidad in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- A barangay of Virac, Catanduanes, Philippines.
- A town in northeastern Trinidad island, Trinidad and Tobago.
- A city in Bukidnon, Philippines.
- A town and municipality of Córdoba department, in northern Colombia.
- A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
- A barangay of Lingig, Surigao del Sur, Philippines.
- The capital city of the state of Carabobo, Venezuela.
- A province of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
- An autonomous community of Spain; in full, Valencian Community.
- A habitational surname from Spanish.
- A neighborhood of the city of Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, California.
- A female given name.
- A barangay of Cagdianao, Dinagat Islands, Philippines.
- A barangay of Alegria, Cebu, Philippines.
verb
noun
- any pigment producing the orange color
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
- orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- (uncountable) Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
- (uncommon) Orange juice.
- (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
- (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.
- any citrus tree bearing oranges
- round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
adj
noun
- a pale pinkish orange color
- flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
- any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
- (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
noun
- the rind of an orange
- A color between orange and amber, like that of an orange peel.
- strips of orange peel cooked in sugar and coated with sugar
- (manufacturing, uncountable) A surface defect in which sheet metal has a rough texture, similar to an orange peel, due to the metal grains being relatively large.
- An uneven surface resembling orange peel, especially cellulite or an imperfect finish on a spray-painted object such as a car.
- (countable, uncountable, literally) The skin of an orange, including the pith.
- (botany) A common name of a species of Clematis indigenous to eastern Eurasia, Clematis orientalis.
noun
- A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine
- (dance) A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
- (music) A piece of music suited to such a dance.
- (US, law enforcement, military slang) A target; an enemy.
- (dance) A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Tango from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- music written in duple time for dancing the tango
- a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin
verb
adj
noun
- a reddish to vivid orange color
- A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
- A slightly ovoid, orange-coloured citrus fruit with a rough peel and a sour-sweet taste which is larger than a clementine and sometimes classed as a variety of mandarin orange.
- A tree that produces tangerines.
- any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
- a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin
noun
- A light brown to brownish orange colour.
- Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
- (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
- Tawny owl.
- Tawny frogmouth.
- (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”).
- (Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
adj
verb
adj
noun
- A bright red colour tinted with orange.
- (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”).
- (countable) A species of erebid moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
- 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
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (slang, uncountable, uncommon) Ellipsis of orange sunshine.
- The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.
- The effect which the sun has when it lights and warms some place.
- A source of cheerfulness or joy.
- (UK, Ireland) Ironic form of address used to an inferior or troublemaker.
- (humorous) Used to address someone who has just woken up and/or is very sleepy.
- A location on which the sun's rays fall.
- (UK, Ireland) Friendly form of address often reserved for juniors.
- (figurative) Geniality or cheerfulness.
- the rays of the sun
- the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
- moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities
adj
noun
- The calyx of an orange.
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- (aviation) The end of a runway.
- (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
- (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
- (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- (botany) A bud.
- (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- (slang) The clitoris.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
- an electrical switch operated by pressing
- a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action
- any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
- a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- any artifact that resembles a button
- a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
- a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc. to fit through buttonholes
verb
noun
- A pinkish-orange color. Any color in between scarlet and orange.
- Bittersweetness.
- Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).
- A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.
- (US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.
- Any variety of clam in the family Glycymerididae
- twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
- poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
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- any pigment producing the orange color
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
- orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- (uncountable) Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
- (uncommon) Orange juice.
- (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
- (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.
- any citrus tree bearing oranges
- round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
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- a shade of yellow tinged with orange
- dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus
- Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food
- An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.
- A plant of species Crocus sativus, a crocus.
- A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.
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- a reddish to vivid orange color
- A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
- A slightly ovoid, orange-coloured citrus fruit with a rough peel and a sour-sweet taste which is larger than a clementine and sometimes classed as a variety of mandarin orange.
- A tree that produces tangerines.
- any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
- a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin
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- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour.
- a moderate yellow-orange to orange color
- Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
- A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.
- (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA".
- any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment
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- a pale pinkish orange color
- flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
- any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
- (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
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- A bright red colour tinted with orange.
- (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”).
- (countable) A species of erebid moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
- 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
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- any pigment producing the orange color
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
- orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- (uncountable) Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
- (uncommon) Orange juice.
- (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
- (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.
- any citrus tree bearing oranges
- round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
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- A light brown to brownish orange colour.
- Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
- (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
- Tawny owl.
- Tawny frogmouth.
- (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”).
- (Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).