red
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red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)
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- Having red as its colour.
- The girl wore a red skirt.
- Of hair, having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
- Her hair had red highlights.
- Leftwing, socialist or communist.
- "Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixon’s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tung’s regime. Nixon’s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking concessions that an undisguised liberal couldn’t get away with. [1]
- (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the Republican Party.
- a red state
- a red Congress
- (US, modern) Of or pertaining to the Republican Party.
- a red advertisement
- (British) Supportive of the Labour Party.
- (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
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- Chinese:
- Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): róng
[edit] Noun
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red (countable and uncountable; plural reds)
- (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters.
- (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
- (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- 1971: The big market, these days, is in Downers. Reds and smack—Seconal and heroin—and a hellbroth of bad domestic grass sprayed with everything from arsenic to horse tranquillizers. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005, p. 202)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (British) a type of firecracker.
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- “red” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
- red in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[edit] Etymology 2
From the archaic verb rede.
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red
[edit] Etymology 3
From Old English hreddan (“‘to save, to deliver, recover, rescue’”) < Proto-Germanic *hradjan.
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to red (third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)
- (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.
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- “redd” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
- red in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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Middle English < Middle Low German, compare Dutch redden.
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to red (third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)
- (transitive, Pennsylvania) Alternative spelling of redd.
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- “redd” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
[edit] Danish
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- IPA: /reːd/, [ʁæðˀ]
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red
- Past of ride.
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- IPA: /rɛd/
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red
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red
- To disappear.
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red
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- Old English rædan.
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- IPA: [rɛt]
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red
- genitive plural of reda
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From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.
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rȇd m. (Cyrillic spelling ре̑д)
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| nominative | rȇd | rȅdovi |
| genitive | reda | redova |
| dative | redu | redovima |
| accusative | red | redove |
| vocative | rede | redovi |
| locative | redu | redovima |
| instrumental | redom | redovima |
[edit] Slovene
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From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.
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red m.
- order (arrangement, disposition)
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red f. (plural redes)
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red
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red
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red (with the auxiliary verb etmek)
- To refuse.
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- IPA: /red/
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red
- the colour red