noun
- Red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood.
- A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana.
- Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries.
- The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue.
- usage: "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year"
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.
- synonyms: reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
- 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
- Especially of the face. ( reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion)
- usage: "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- . imp. & p. p. of Read.
- (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.
- (n.) The color of blood or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet or a tint resembling these.
- (n.) An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a.
- (superl.) Of the color of blood or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.
- (a.) The menses.
- (n.) A red pigment.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.