different between burnet vs brown

English

Etymology

From Middle English burnet, from Old French brunet, brunete (“brunette”). Doublet of brunette.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??n?t/, /?b??n?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?n?t/, /?b?n?t/

Noun

burnet (usually uncountable, plural burnets)

1. Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. Poterium), including salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor), an herb used in salads and herbal teas.
2. Any of several species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, typically having black forewings with red spots.

Derived terms

• burnet bloodwort (Sanguisorba minor)
• burnet companion moth
• burnet moth
• burnet rose (Rosa spinosossima)
• burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga)
• Canadian burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis)
• great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
• lesser burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
• salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
• six-spot burnet
• thorny burnet (Sanguisorba spinosum)
• transparent burnet
• wild burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis)

Translations

References

• burnet at OneLook Dictionary Search
• burnet in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Sanguisorba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sanguisorba on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Sanguisorba on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Brunet, Butner, beturn, brunet, bunter

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bornet, brunet, burnett, burnete, bornete

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French brunet, brunete (“brunette”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?burn?t/, /bur?n??t/

Noun

burnet (uncountable)

1. Brown woolen fabric.
2. Burnet (Sanguisorba spp.) or a similar plant.

Descendants

• English: burnet
• Scots: burnet

References

• “burn??t, n.(1) & adj..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “burn??t, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Adjective

burnet

1. brown (used of linen)

References

• “burn??t, n.(1) & adj..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “burn??t, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology

From Middle English broun, from Old English br?n (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *br?naz (compare West Frisian brún, Dutch bruin, German braun), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH- (compare Ancient Greek ????? (phrún?), ?????? (phrûnos, “toad”); Latin brunneus (“brown”)), compare Lithuanian b??ras (“brown”), Sanskrit ????? (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)). Doublet of bruin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?a?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

brown (countable and uncountable, plural browns)

1. (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

2. (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
3. (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
4. (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
5. A brown horse or other animal.
6. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
7. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
8. (entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
9. (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
10. (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
    • 1928, R. Pigot, Twenty-five Years Big Game Hunting (page 166)

      The temptation to have a shot into the brown was great. There was not a head there which was not a big one and the one by himself was not too easy a shot since it is always difficult to shoot when lying in soft snow.

    • 1979, Kevin Andrews, Athens Alive (page 223)

      My anger mounted at this, I opened the courtyard door and raised my musket to fire into the brown; I had loaded it with small shot, and if it had gone off that would have been the death of us and the ruin of all of us in the house.

Derived terms

• mummy brown

Descendants

• Bislama: braon
• Tok Pisin: braun
• ? Welsh: brown
• ? Tongan: palauni

Translations

Adjective

brown (comparative browner or more brown, superlative brownest or most brown)

1. Having a brown colour.
2. (obsolete) Gloomy.
3. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
   1. (US) Latino
   2. (of Asians) South Asian
   3. (of East Asians) Southeast Asian

Descendants

• American Sign Language: B@Cheek-PalmForward B@Jaw-PalmForward

Translations

Verb

brown (third-person singular simple present browns, present participle browning, simple past and past participle browned)

1. (intransitive) To become brown.
2. (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.

3. (intransitive, transitive) To tan.

4. (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
5. (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
6. (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

7. (transitive) To treat with deference, or respect.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• brunet
• burnet

See also

• golding

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English brown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brou?n/

Adjective

brown (feminine singular brown, plural brown, equative browned, comparative brownach, superlative brownaf)

1. brown

Mutation

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