red
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[edit] English
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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.
- 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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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
- (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)
- (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] Bosnian
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red m (plural redovi)
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red
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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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- IPA: [rɛt]
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red
- genitive plural of reda
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red m. (plural redovi) (Cyrillic spelling ред)
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red m.
- order (arrangement, disposition)
This Slovene entry was created from the translations listed at order. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see red in the Slovene Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2008
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red f. (plural redes)
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red
[edit] Turkish
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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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| Nominative | red | reds |
| Accusative | redi | redis |
| Genitive | reda | redas |
| Dative | rede | redes |
- the colour red

