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RED
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Irregular inflected forms: red , redded , redder , reddest , redding
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("red" is a kind of...):
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red"):
sanguine (a blood-red color)
chrome red (a red pigment used in paints; basic lead chromate)
alizarine red; Turkey red (a bright orange-red color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye)
cardinal; carmine (a variable color averaging a vivid red)
crimson; deep red; ruby (a deep and vivid red color)
dark red (a red color that reflects little light)
purplish-red; purplish red (a red with a tinge of purple)
cerise; cherry; cherry red (a red the color of ripe cherries)
orange red; scarlet; vermilion (a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge)
Derivation:
red (of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Red" is a part of...):
LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
OK; Okla.; Oklahoma; Sooner State (a state in south central United States)
Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
Synonyms:
Bolshevik; bolshie; bolshy; Marxist; red
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("red" is a kind of...):
radical (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
Example:
the company operated in the red last year
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("red" is a kind of...):
amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red"):
paper loss (an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost)
squeeze (a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by violence or bloodshed
Example:
convulsed with red rage
Synonyms:
crimson; red; violent
Classified under:
Similar:
bloody (having or covered with or accompanied by blood)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Synonyms:
blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Derivation:
red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
Example:
flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
Synonyms:
crimson; flushed; red; red-faced; reddened
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Derivation:
redness (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)
Context examples:
"He was a little scholastic shrimp without a drop of red blood in his body."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“Silence yourself,” said Steerforth, turning red.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"He got me all right," he announced, pointing to the torn trousers and undercloths, and the growing stain of red.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I saw you dancing with the red headed man I ran away from.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He lay where he had fallen, and from there he watched the man in the red sweater.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The velvet band again covered the red mark.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A condition in which the number of red blood cells is below normal.
(Anemia, NCI Dictionary)
Hemoglobin is an iron-rich protein that gives the red color to blood.
(Anemia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
His eyes were black an' his hair was red an' his voice like the parish bull.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The red steps pointed towards us and led away from an inner room, the door of which was closed.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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