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red - 8 definitions

- noun
1. red -- red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
synonyms: redness
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
2. Red -- a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
synonyms: Red, Red River
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
3. Bolshevik -- emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
synonyms: Bolshevik, Marxist, bolshie, bolshy
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
4. loss -- the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year"
synonyms: loss, red ink
antonyms: gain -- the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
- verb
5. red, reds -- to redd
synonyms: reds, blush, redded, reddest, redding
Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language
 
- adjective
6. red -- 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
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
7. crimson -- 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
synonyms: crimson, violent
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
8. crimson -- (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"
synonyms: crimson, reddened, red-faced, flushed
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
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gain -- the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating

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