red

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[edit] English

Various shades of red.
A red poison dart frog.
Close-up view of red hair
Sixteen snooker balls: 15 reds and 1 pink.
A red star, sometimes used as a symbol of communism.
A glass of red wine.
A capsule of secobarbital.

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[edit] Etymology 1

Old English rēad, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz (compare Dutch rood, German rot, Danish rød), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roudhós (compare Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A/B rtär/ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (erythrós), Old Church Slavonic рудъ (rudŭ), Lithuanian raúdas, Avestan raoidita, Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá) 'red, bloody').

[edit] Adjective

red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)

  1. Having red as its colour.
    The girl wore a red skirt.
  2. Of hair, having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
    Her hair had red highlights.
  3. 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]
  4. (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the Republican Party.
    a red state
    a red Congress
  5. (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the Republican Party.
    a red advertisement
  6. (UK) Supportive of the Labour Party.
  7. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
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terms derived from "red"
[edit] Translations
having red as its colour
of hair: orange-brown
left-wing, socialist or communist
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  • Mandarin:
    Wu Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): róng

[edit] Noun

red (countable and uncountable; plural reds)

  1. (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.
  2. (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
  3. (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
  4. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
  5. (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)
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from "red"
[edit] Translations
colour
socialist, communist
red wine

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[edit] Etymology 2

From the archaic verb rede.

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red

  1. (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of rede.

[edit] Etymology 3

From Old English hreddan (“to save, to deliver, recover, rescue”), from Proto-Germanic *hradjanan.

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red (third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)

  1. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.

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[edit] Etymology 4

Middle English, from Middle Low German, compare Dutch redden.

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red (third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)

  1. (transitive, Pennsylvania) Alternative spelling of redd.

[edit] References

  • “redd” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

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[edit] Danish

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  • IPA: /reːd/, [ʁæðˀ]

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red

  1. past of ride

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red

  1. first-person singular present indicative of redden.
  2. imperative of redden.

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[edit] Kurdish

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red

  1. To disappear.

[edit] Manx

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish rét.

[edit] Noun

red m.

  1. thing, object, item
    • Son y chied red, t'eh ro vie dy ve firrinagh.
      • For one thing, it is too good to be true.
    • T'eh yn un red.
      • It amounts to the same thing.
    • T'eh çheet stiagh rish yn red elley.
      • It falls in with the other thing.
    • She'n red hene eh y traa shoh.
      • It's the real thing this time.
    • Va shen yn red cooie dy ghra.
      • That was the appropriate thing to say.
    • Ta shen red aitt.
      • That's a curious thing.
  2. matter

[edit] Old English

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red m.

  1. Alternative form of ræd.

[edit] Polish

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[edit] Noun

red

  1. genitive plural of reda

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.

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rȇd m. (Cyrillic spelling ре̑д)

  1. row
  2. (mathematics) series
  3. queue
  4. order (of magnitude)
  5. order (arrangement, disposition)
  6. line (of customers)

[edit] Declension

    declension of red
singular plural
nominative rȇd rȅdovi
genitive rȇda rȅdōvā
dative rȇdu rȅdovima
accusative rȇd rȅdove
vocative rȇde rȅdovi
locative rȇdu rȅdovima
instrumental rȇdom rȅdovima

[edit] Slovene

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.

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red m.

  1. order (arrangement, disposition)

[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology

From Latin rete (“net”).

[edit] Noun

red f. (plural redes)

  1. web, mesh
  2. trap, snare
  3. net, network
  4. (computing) Web, Internet

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[edit] Swedish

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red

  1. imperative of reda.
  2. past tense of rida.

[edit] Turkish

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red

  1. refusal

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red (with the auxiliary verb etmek)

  1. To refuse.

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English red

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[edit] Noun

red (plural reds)

  1. the colour red

[edit] Declension

declension of red
singular plural
nominative red reds
genitive reda redas
dative rede redes
accusative redi redis
predicative redu redus
vocative o red! o reds!

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