'Red' definitions:
Definition of 'red'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]
adjective
Characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: crimson, red, violent]
adjective
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red- faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" [syn: crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed]
noun
Red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood [syn: red, redness]
noun
A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana [syn: Red, Red River]
noun
Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries [syn: Bolshevik, Marxist, red, bolshie, bolshy]
noun
Definition of 'Red'
From: GCIDE
- Red \Red\ (r[e^]d), obs. imp. & p. p. of Read. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Red'
From: GCIDE
- Red \Red\, v. t. To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Red'
From: GCIDE
- Red \Red\ (r?d), n.
- 1. The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these. "Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A red pigment. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (European Politics) An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a. [Cant] [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. (Med.) The menses. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- English red, a pigment prepared by the Dutch, similar to Indian red.
- Hypericum red, a red resinous dyestuff extracted from Hypericum.
- Indian red. See under Indian, and Almagra. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'red'
From: GCIDE
- Wine \Wine\, n. [OE. win, AS. win, fr. L. vinum (cf. Icel. v[imac]n; all from the Latin); akin to Gr. o'i^nos, ?, and E. withy. Cf. Vine, Vineyard, Vinous, Withy.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red wine of Gascoigne." --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. --Prov. xx. 1. [1913 Webster]
- Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol, containing also certain small quantities of ethers and ethereal salts which give character and bouquet. According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines are called red, white, spirituous, dry, light, still, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication. [1913 Webster]
- Noah awoke from his wine. --Gen. ix. 24. [1913 Webster]
- Birch wine, Cape wine, etc. See under Birch, Cape, etc.
- Spirit of wine. See under Spirit.
- To have drunk wine of ape or To have drunk wine ape, to be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
- Wine acid. (Chem.) See Tartaric acid, under Tartaric. [Colloq.]
- Wine apple (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor.
- Wine fly (Zool.), small two-winged fly of the genus Piophila, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other fermented liquors.
- Wine grower, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine.
- Wine measure, the measure by which wines and other spirits are sold, smaller than beer measure.
- Wine merchant, a merchant who deals in wines.
- Wine of opium (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; -- also Sydenham's laudanum.
- Wine press, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to extract their juice.
- Wine skin, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various countries, for carrying wine.
- Wine stone, a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See 1st Tartar, 1.
- Wine vault. (a) A vault where wine is stored. (b) A place where wine is served at the bar, or at tables; a dramshop. --Dickens.
- Wine vinegar, vinegar made from wine.
- Wine whey, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of wine. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'Red'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anarch,
- anarchist,
- avowed Communist,
- Bolshevik,
- Bolshevist,
- Bolshie,
- bolshie,
- bonnet rouge,
- Carbonarist,
- Carbonaro,
- Castroist,
- Castroite,
- Charley,
- commie,
- Communist,
- Communist sympathizer,
- communistic,
- comrade,
- Cong,
- criminal syndicalist,
- fellow traveler,
- Fenian,
- Guevarist,
- Jacobin,
- Leninist,
- Maoist,
- Marxist,
- Marxist-Leninist,
- Mau-Mau,
- Puritan,
- rebel,
- red,
- Red Republican,
- revisionist,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionary junta,
- revolutioner,
- revolutionist,
- revolutionizer,
- Roundhead,
- sans-culotte,
- sans-culottist,
- Sinn Feiner,
- Stalinist,
- subversive,
- syndicalist,
- terrorist,
- Titoist,
- Trotskyist,
- Trotskyite,
- VC,
- Vietcong,
- Yankee,
- Yankee Doodle
Words containing 'Red'
- Redding,
- Redly,
- Redness,
- in the red,
- Cardinal red,
- Carmine red,
- Chrome red,
- Congo red,
- English red,
- French red,
- Hypericum red,
- Indian red,
- Indigo red,
- Naphthalene red,
- Paris red,
- Persian red,
- Picture red,
- Pompeian red,
- Red Bank,
- Red Bay,
- Red Bluff,
- Red Bud,
- Red Butte,
- Red Chute,
- Red Cliff,
- Red Cloud,
- Red Creek,
- Red Cross,
- Red Devil,
- Red Hill,
- Red Hook,
- Red Jacket,
- Red Lake,
- Red Level,
- Red Lick,
- Red Lion,
- Red Lodge,
- Red Mesa,
- Red Oak,
- Red Republican,
- Red River,
- Red Rock,
- Red Springs,
- Red Willow,
- Red Wing,
- Red admiral,
- Red ant,
- Red antimony,
- Red ash,
- Red bass,
- Red beard,
- Red birch,
- Red blindness,
- Red book,
- Red brass,
- Red buckeye,
- Red bug,
- Red cedar,
- Red chalk,
- Red corallin,
- Red dog,
- Red fire,
- Red flag,
- Red horse,
- Red lead,
- Red light,
- Red liquor,
- Red mace,
- Red maggot,
- Red man,
- Red manganese,
- Red maple,
- Red mite,
- Red mulberry,
- Red mullet,
- Red ocher,
- Red pepper,
- Red perch,
- Red phosphorus,
- Red pine,
- Red precipitate,
- Red ribbon,
- Red sandalwood,
- Red sanders,
- Red sandstone,
- Red scale,
- Red silver,
- Red snapper,
- Red snow,
- Red softening,
- Red sorrel,
- Red spider,
- Red squirrel,
- Red tape,
- Red underwing,
- Red viper,
- Red vitriol,
- Red water,
- Redding, CA,
- Redding, IA,
- Saturn red,
- Spanish red,
- Tile red,
- Turkey red,
- Venetian red,
- alizarin red,
- alizarine red,
- brick red,
- cherry red,
- dark red,
- deep red,
- magdala red,
- mineral red,
- orange red,
- oxblood red,
- purplish red,
- red alder,
- red alert,
- red algae,
- red amaranth,
- red baiting,
- red baneberry,
- red bat,
- red bearberry,
- red beech,
- red blooded,
- red bordeaux,
- red brigades,
- red bryony,
- red cabbage,
- red campion,
- red carpet,
- red cent,
- red china,
- red clay,
- red clintonia,
- red clover,
- red cole,
- red complexioned,
- red coral,
- red coralline,
- red currant,
- red dace,
- red dagga,
- red darnel,
- red deal,
- red deer,
- red delicious,
- red dogwood,
- red drum,
- red dwarf,
- red ebony,
- red eft,
- red elm,
- red faced,
- red fir,
- red fox,
- red giant,
- red ginger,
- red goatfish,
- red goosefoot,
- red gram,
- red grouse,
- red guard,
- red guava,
- red gum,
- red handed,
- red haw,
- red heat,
- red helleborine,
- red herring,
- red hot,
- red indian,
- red ink,
- red juniper,
- red kauri,
- red lauan,
- red laver,
- red line,
- red linnet,
- red maids,
- red marrow,
- red meat,
- red mordant,
- red notice,
- red onion,
- red osier,
- red panda,
- red periwinkle,
- red phalarope,
- red pimpernel,
- red planet,
- red poll,
- red porgy,
- red raspberry,
- red reddish,
- red region,
- red rockfish,
- red ruddock,
- red sable,
- red salmon,
- red sanderswood,
- red saunders,
- red scare,
- red sea,
- red setter,
- red shift,
- red shropsavine,
- red siskin,
- red sprites,
- red spruce,
- red sun,
- red tai,
- red teguexin,
- red tide,
- red trillium,
- red valerian,
- red wine,
- red wolf,
- red worm,
- see red,
- seeing red,
- turn red,
- Chinese-red,
- High-red,
- Infra-red,
- New Red Sandstone,
- Red Bank, NJ,
- Red Bank, SC,
- Red Bank, TN,
- Red Bay, AL,
- Red Bluff, CA,
- Red Boiling Springs,
- Red Bud, IL,
- Red Butte, WY,
- Red Chute, LA,
- Red Cliff, CO,
- Red Cloud, NE,
- Red Creek, NY,
- Red Devil, AK,
- Red Dog Mine,
- Red Feather Lakes,
- Red Hill, PA,
- Red Hill, SC,
- Red Hook, NY,
- Red Jacket, WV,
- Red Lake County,
- Red Lake Falls,
- Red Lake, MN,
- Red Level, AL,
- Red Lick, TX,
- Red Lion, PA,
- Red Lodge, MT,
- Red Mesa, AZ,
- Red Oak, IA,
- Red Oak, NC,
- Red Oak, OK,
- Red Oak, TX,
- Red Oaks Mill,
- Red River County,
- Red River Parish,
- Red River, LA,
- Red River, NM,
- Red River, TX,
- Red Rock, OK,
- Red Springs, NC,
- Red Willow County,
- Red Willow, NE,
- Red Wing, MN,
- Red bird of paradise,
- Red blood corpuscles,
- Red book of the Exchequer,
- Red lead ore,
- Red prussiate of potash,
- Red-gum,
- Red-hand,
- Red-handed,
- Red-hot,
- Red-letter,
- Red-riband,
- Red-short,
- Red-shortness,
- Red-tailed,
- Red-tape,
- Red-tapism,
- Red-tapist,
- Rose-red,
- Sultan-red,
- american red elder,
- american red plum,
- american red squirrel,
- blackish-red,
- blood-red,
- bright-red,
- bronze-red,
- brownish-red,
- canadian red pine,
- capital of red china,
- cherry-red,
- cinnamon-red,
- coral-red,
- eastern red cedar,
- european red elder,
- forest red gum,
- giant red paintbrush,
- japanese red army,
- japanese red pine,
- mahogany-red,
- northern red oak,
- orange-red,
- orangish-red,
- paint the town red,
- pink-red,
- purple-red,
- purplish-red,
- raspberry-red,
- red angel's trumpet,
- red army faction,
- red bird's eye,
- red blood cell,
- red bone marrow,
- red butter pear,
- red cypress pine,
- red dwarf star,
- red false mallow,
- red giant star,
- red hand defenders,
- red jungle fowl,
- red lauan tree,
- red light district,
- red osier dogwood,
- red oxide of zinc,
- red rat snake,
- red sea passage of,
- red shrubby penstemon,
- red silk cotton,
- red silver fir,
- red spider mite,
- red zinc ore,
- red-berry,
- red-blind,
- red-blindness,
- red-blooded,
- red-brick,
- red-brown,
- red-carpet,
- red-coated,
- red-eye,
- red-faced,
- red-flowered,
- red-fruited,
- red-gray,
- red-grey,
- red-header,
- red-ink,
- red-lavender,
- red-orange,
- red-purple,
- red-rimmed,
- red-streaked,
- red-striped,
- red-violet,
- rhode island red,
- river red gum,
- ruby-red,
- rust-red,
- rusty-red,
- shumard red oak,
- southern red cedar,
- southern red oak,
- swamp red oak,
- western red cedar,
- wild red oat,
- wine-red,
- Claverack-Red Mills,
- Red Boiling Springs, TN,
- Red Dog Mine, AK,
- Red Feather Lakes, CO,
- Red Lake County, MN,
- Red Lake Falls, MN,
- Red Oaks Mill, NY,
- Red River County, TX,
- Red River Parish, LA,
- Red Willow County, NE,
- Red-bellied perch,
- Red-crested poachard,
- Red-dog flour,
- Red-lead ore,
- Red-legged crow,
- Red-letter day,
- Red-light district,
- Red-tailed hawk,
- little red riding hood,
- red blood-red carmine cerise cherry cherry-red crimson ruby ruby-red scarlet,
- red morning-glory,
- red ruddy flushed empurpled,
- red-backed lemming,
- red-backed mouse,
- red-backed sandpiper,
- red-bellied snake,
- red-bellied terrapin,
- red-bellied turtle,
- red-berried elder,
- red-breasted merganser,
- red-breasted nuthatch,
- red-breasted sapsucker,
- red-breasted snipe,
- red-eyed bream,
- red-eyed vireo,
- red-footed booby,
- red-green dichromacy,
- red-headed duck,
- red-headed widgeon,
- red-hot poker,
- red-lead putty,
- red-legged gull,
- red-legged partridge,
- red-mouth grunt,
- red-necked grebe,
- red-necked plover,
- red-shafted flicker,
- red-shouldered hawk,
- red-skinned onion,
- red-spotted purple,
- red-spotted trout,
- red-tailed buzzard,
- red-winged blackbird,
- red-winged troupial,
- Claverack-Red Mills, NY,
- eastern red-backed salamander,
- red silk-cotton tree,
- red-flowered silky oak,
- red-green color blindness,
- red-green colour blindness,
- red-veined pie plant,
- western red-backed salamander,
- red-coated lobster-backed,
- vermilion vermillion cinibar Chinese-red