red

• enPR: rĕd, IPA^(key): /ɹɛd/

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• Homophone: read (past tense/participle)
• Rhymes: -ɛd

From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz (compare West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ- (compare Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Old Church Slavonic рудъ (rudŭ), Lithuanian raúdas, Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀‎ (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”)).

red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)

1. Having red as its color.

   The girl wore a red skirt.

   • Shakespeare

     Your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.

2. (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.

   Her hair had red highlights.

3. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)

   I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.

4. (often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:
   1. (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party

      a red state

      a red Congress

   2. (also Britain) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
      • "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.

      the red-black grand coalition in Germany

5. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
6. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
7. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.

• (color):: scarlet, crimson, vermilion, ruby-red, cherry-red, cerise, cardinal-red, carmine, wine-red, claret-red, blood-red (sanguine), coral-red, cochineal-red, rose-red (rosy, damask), brick-red, maroon, rust-red (rusty), rufous-red, gules-red, rufescent.

• (having red as its colour): nonred, unred
• (having red as its colour charge): antired

red (countable and uncountable, plural reds)

1. (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, 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; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.

   red colour:  

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.
   • 1977, Billy Joel (music), “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”, in The Stranger:

     A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / in our Italian restaurant.

   • 2005, Jeffrey P. Landry, Temptation Mango:

     He produced a wine key from his jacket pocket and effortlessly removed the cork from the bottle of red.

5. (countable, informal, Britain, birdwatching) A redshank.
6. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
7. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
   • 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005), page 202:

     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.

8. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
9. (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade
10. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
11. (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")
    • 1982, The Rotarian (volume 140, number 1, page 39)

      Houston visited a home in an early pioneer settlement where he was offered a bowl of red. Houston eagerly took his first large spoonful. His eyes watering, he spat out his bite […]

12. (informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
    • 2013 November, Catch Cormier, “Sightcasting for redfish”, in Louisiana Sportsman‎:

      The species Sciaenops ocellatus certainly isn’t lacking for nicknames. […] Clear water also favors sightcasting. Against the dark background of marsh mud, a red will appear like a pumpkin — big, orange and round.

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• primary colour

• “red” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
• red in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• red on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From the archaic verb rede.

red

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

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

1. Alternative spelling of redd

• “redd” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
• red in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• DRE, Der, Der., ERD, der, erd

• IPA^(key): /reːd/, [ʁæðˀ]

red

1. past tense of ride

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• IPA^(key): /rɛt/

red

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

• der

red

1. To disappear.

red

1. A type of rice.

From Old Irish rét.

red m (genitive singular red, plural reddyn)

1. thing, object, item

   Cha daink reddyn dy mie.

   Things didn't pan out well.

   Cha nel shen deyr son y leagh t'er reddyn nish.

   That's not dear as things go.

   Kanys ta reddyn goll er?

   How are things?

   Son y chied red, t'eh ro vie dy ve firrinagh.

   For one thing, it is too good to be true.

   Ta reddyn couyral.

   Things are getting better.

   Ta reddyn ennagh ayn nagh vel niart ain orroo.

   There are some things we cannot help.

   Ta shen red aitt.

   That's a curious thing.

   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.

2. matter

• redde, reed, read, ræd

Old English rēad, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós.

• IPA^(key): /rɛːd/, /reːd/

red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)

1. red, crimson, scarlet (in color)
2. red pigment
3. reddened, dyed red
4. blushing, red-faced
5. bloody, blood-stained
6. ruddy, rosy
7. red-haired
8. red-clothed, wearing red
9. (metal) golden
10. (alchemy) causing transmutation into gold

• English: red
• Scots: rede, reid
• Yola: reed

• “rēd (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

red

1. red (colour)
2. red pigment, vermillion, cinnabar
3. (heraldry) red, gules (tincture)
4. reddish or ruddy skin
5. reddish eyes or irises
6. red fabric
7. red wine
8. blood

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• English: red
• Scots: rede, reid
• Yola: reed

• “rēd (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

• rei

red

1. simple past of ri
2. simple past of ride

red m

1. Alternative form of ræd

• IPA^(key): /rɛt/

red

1. genitive plural of reda

From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.

• IPA^(key): /rêːd/

rȇd m (Cyrillic spelling ре̑д)

1. row
2. (mathematics) series

   konvergentan red ― Convergent series

   divergentan red ― Divergent series

3. queue
4. order (of magnitude)
5. order (arrangement, disposition)
6. line (of customers)
7. (chess) rank

• “red” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈréːt/
• Tonal orthography: rẹ̑d

réd m inan (genitive réda, nominative plural redôvi or rédi)

1. order (arrangement, disposition)

• IPA^(key): /ˈréːt/
• Tonal orthography: rẹ̑d

réd f (genitive redí, nominative plural redí)

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From Old Spanish red, from Latin rēte (“net”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈred/, [ˈreð]
• Rhymes: -eð

red f (plural redes)

1. (hunting, tools) web, mesh
2. (fishing) net
   • 1911, Benito Pérez Galdós, De Cartago a Sagunto : 13

     Si se consigue pescar a Dorregaray con cuarenta mil duretes, a Cástor Andéchaga con veinticinco mil, y a otros tales, habremos hecho más que cogiendo en la red a los bicharracos de menor cuantía.

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3. (arachnid) spiderweb
4. trap, snare
5. (communication, transport) net, network
   • red de carreteras, highway network
   • red de radiodifusoras, radio broadcasters network
   • red televisiva, TV broadcasting network
6. (sports) net, goal
7. (computing) Web, Internet
   • 2013 January 16, “España: al 74% le gustaría acceder por Red a su historial clínico”, in El País‎, page ...:

     La mayoría de la población (84%) accede a la red para temas relacionados con la sanidad.

     Most of the population (84%) accesses the web for health-related topics.

8. (used in plural) social networks

• enredar
• enredo
• redada
• redecilla

• reticular
• retina

• Rhymes: -eːd

red

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

red

1. refusal

red (with the auxiliary verb etmek)

1. To refuse.

Borrowed from English red.

• IPA^(key): /red/

red (plural reds)

1. the colour red

• redik