How to pronounce “red”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (countable and uncountable) The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.
• (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
• (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
• (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
• (countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.
• (countable, informal) A red variety of an animal, such as a red kangaroo or a red squirrel.
• (countable, informal, UK, birdwatching) A redshank.
• (derogatory, offensive) An American Indian.
• (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
• (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
• (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) Red lemonade
• (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
• (US, colloquial, uncountable) Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
• (informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
• (slang, uncountable) Tomato ketchup.
• [Adjective]
• Of a red hue.
• (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
• (of the skin) Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
• (of a dog or its coat) Having a brown color.
• (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
• (politics, often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:
• (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
• (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
• (particle physics) Of a red color charge.
• [Interjection]
• (BDSM, procedure word) Used to indicate that the speaker wishes current sexual activity to stop immediately.
• [Verb]
• (archaic) simple past and past participle of rede

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