" red "

[Adjective]  | "red" | \ ˈred \

1: of the color red

2: having red as a distinguishing color

3: flushed especially with anger or embarrassment

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English red, rede, reed, going back to Old English rēad, going back to Germanic *rauđa- (whence also Old Frisian rād, rōd "red, yellow," Old Saxon rōd "red," Middle Dutch root, rood, Old High German rōt, Old Norse rauðr, Gothic rauþs), going back to Indo-European *h1rou̯dh-o-, whence also Old Irish rúad "reddish brown, dark red," Welsh rhudd "red, tawny," Latin rūfus (from a dialect or another Italic language, with -f- for expected -b-), Lithuanian raũdas "red-brown, reddish," Russian dialect rúdyj "blood-red," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian rûd "reddish brown"; from a suffixed zero-grade form *h1rudh-ro-, Old Norse roðra "blood," Latin ruber "red," Tocharian B ratre, Greek erythrós, Sanskrit rudhiráḥ "red, bloody";

  * Note : The Modern English form reflects shortening of Middle English ̄ (long open ), found in other monosyllabic words ending in a voiced dental stop (compare {dead:1|dead:1}, {head:1|head:1}, {shred:1|shred:1}); as with shred, this change took place early enough to be reflected in early Modern English spelling (unlike dead and head). The surnames Read, Reade, etc., may preserve the long vowel.;

[Noun]  | "red" 

1: a color whose hue resembles that of blood or of the ruby or is that of the long-wave extreme of the visible spectrum

2: red clothing

3: one that is of a red or reddish color: such as

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English red, reed, derivative of red, reed {see: |red:1|red:1};

[Noun]  | "red admiral" 

1: a nymphalid butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) that is common in both Europe and America, has broad orange-red bands on the forewings, and feeds chiefly on nettles in the larval stage

Origin: 1798 ;

[Noun]  | "red alert" 

1: the final stage of alert in which enemy attack appears imminent; broadly : a state of alert brought on by impending danger

Origin: 1941 ;

[Noun]  | "red alga" 

1: any of a division (Rhodophyta) of chiefly marine algae that have predominantly red pigmentation

Origin: 1834 ;

[Noun]  | "red ant" 

1: any of various reddish ants (such as the pharaoh ant)

Origin: 1667 ;

[Noun]  | "red-bait*ing" | \ ˈred-ˌbā-tiŋ \

1: the act of attacking or persecuting as a Communist or as communistic

Origin: 1927 ;

[Abbreviation]  | "red" 

1: reduce; reduction

[Geographical name]  | "Red" | \ ˈred \

1: river 1018 miles (1638 kilometers) long flowing east on the Oklahoma—Texas boundary and into the Atchafalaya and Mississippi rivers in Louisiana

2: river in north central U.S. and south central Canada flowing north on the Minnesota—North Dakota boundary and into Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba

3: river 500 miles (805 kilometers) long in southeastern Asia rising in central Yunnan, China, and flowing southeast across northern Vietnam into the Gulf of Tonkin

[Verb]  | "red-bait" | \ ˈred-ˌbāt \

1: to subject (a person or group) to red-baiting

2: to engage in red-baiting

Origin: 1938 ;

[Adjective]  | "red" 

[Adjective]  | "red-blooded" 

[Adjective]  | "red-hot" 

[Noun]  | "red" 

[Noun]  | "red alert" 

[Noun]  | "red flag" 

[Noun]  | "red hot" 

[Noun]  | "red light" 

[Verb]  | "red-pencil" 

[Phrase]  | "red in tooth and claw"