different between red vs hot

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?d, IPA^(key): /??d/, [????d?]
• Homophone: read (past tense/participle)
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English red, from Old English r?ad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz (compare West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud), from Proto-Indo-European *h?rowd?ós, from the root *h?rewd?- (compare Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ??????? (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (rud?), Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Avestan ????????????????????????????????? (raoidita), Sanskrit ????? (rudhirá, “red, bloody”)).

Adjective

red (comparative redder or more red, superlative reddest or most red)

1. Having red as its color.
2. (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.

   Her hair had red highlights.

3. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)

   I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.

4. (often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:
   1. Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
      • "Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixon’s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tung’s regime. Nixon’s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking concessions that an undisguised liberal couldn’t get away with. [1]

      the red-black grand coalition in Germany

   2. (US, 21st century) the U.S. Republican party

      a red state

      a red Congress

5. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
6. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
7. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.

Synonyms

• (color): scarlet, crimson, vermilion, ruby-red, cherry-red, cerise, cardinal-red, carmine, wine-red, claret-red, blood-red (sanguine), coral-red, cochineal-red, rose-red (rosy, damask), brick-red, maroon, rust-red (rusty), rufous-red, gules-red, rufescent.

Antonyms

• (having red as its colour): nonred, unred
• (having red as its colour charge): antired

Derived terms

Translations

See red/translations § Adjective.

Noun

red (countable and uncountable, plural reds)

1. (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.

2. (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
3. (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
4. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
5. (countable, informal, Britain, birdwatching) A redshank.
6. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
7. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
8. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
9. (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade
10. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
11. (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")
    • 1982, The Rotarian (volume 140, number 1, page 39)

      Houston visited a home in an early pioneer settlement where he was offered a bowl of red. Houston eagerly took his first large spoonful. His eyes watering, he spat out his bite […]

12. (informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• primary colour

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “red”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• red in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• red on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From the archaic verb rede.

Verb

red

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede

Etymology 3

Verb

red (third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)

1. Alternative spelling of redd

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “redd”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• red in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• DRE, Der, Der., EDR, ERD, der, erd

Bislama

Etymology

From English red.

Adjective

red

1. red

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?d/, [?æð?]

Verb

red

1. past tense of ride

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t
• IPA^(key): /r?t/

Verb

red

1. first-person singular present indicative of redden
2. imperative of redden

Anagrams

• der

Italian

Noun

red

1. A type of rice.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish rét.

Noun

red m (genitive singular red, plural reddyn)

1. thing, object, item

2. matter

Middle English

Alternative forms

• redde, reed, read, ræd

Etymology

Old English r?ad, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rowd?ós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??d/, /re?d/

Adjective

red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)

1. red, crimson, scarlet (in color)
2. red pigment
3. reddened, dyed red
4. blushing, red-faced
5. bloody, blood-stained
6. ruddy, rosy
7. red-haired
8. red-clothed, wearing red
9. (metal) golden
10. (alchemy) causing transmutation into gold

Descendants

• English: red
• Scots: rede, reid
• Yola: reed

References

• “r?d, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Noun

red

1. red (colour)
2. red pigment, vermillion, cinnabar
3. (heraldry) red, gules (tincture)
4. reddish or ruddy skin
5. reddish eyes or irises
6. red fabric
7. red wine
8. blood

Related terms

• Rede See

Descendants

• English: red
• Scots: rede, reid
• Yola: reed

References

• “r?d, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Northern Kurdish

Verb

red

1. to disappear.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• rei

Verb

red

1. simple past of ri
2. simple past of ride

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /red/

Noun

red m

1. Alternative form of ræd

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?t/

Noun

red

1. genitive plural of reda

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rê?d/

Noun

r?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. row
2. (mathematics) series

3. queue
4. order (of magnitude)
5. order (arrangement, disposition)
6. line (of customers)
7. (chess) rank
8. (religion) order

   franjeva?ki red - order of Saint Francis of Assisi

Declension

References

• “red” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *r?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ré?t/

Noun

r??d m inan

1. order (arrangement, disposition)

Inflection

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ré?t/

Noun

r??d f

1. swath (the track cut out by a scythe in mowing)

Inflection

Further reading

• “red”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish red, from Latin r?te (“net”). Cognate with English rete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?red/, [?reð?]
• Rhymes: -ed

Noun

red f (plural redes)

1. (hunting, tools) web, mesh
2. (fishing) net
   • 1911, Benito Pérez Galdós, De Cartago a Sagunto : 13

3. (arachnid) spiderweb
4. trap, snare
5. (communication, transport) net, network

6. (sports) net, goal
7. (electricity) grid

8. (informal, sometimes capitalized) Web, Internet
9. (in the plural) social networks

   Synonym: redes sociales

Derived terms

Related terms

• reticular
• retina

Further reading

• “red” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

red

1. imperative of reda.
2. past tense of rida.

Anagrams

• der

Turkish

Etymology

Possibly from Arabic ????? (radd).

Noun

red

1. refusal
2. rejection

Verb

red (with the auxiliary verb etmek)

1. To refuse.

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English red.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /red/

Noun

red (nominative plural reds)

1. the colour red

Declension

Derived terms

• redik

See also

English

Alternative forms

• (physically attractive): hawt (slang, especially Internet), hott (slang, especially Internet)

Etymology

From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English h?t (“hot, fervent, fervid, fierce”), from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *kay- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), Low German het (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Swedish het (“hot”), Icelandic heitur (“hot”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?t, IPA^(key): /h?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• (General American) enPR: hät, IPA^(key): /h?t/

Adjective

hot (comparative hotter, superlative hottest)

1. (of an object) Having a high temperature.

   • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].

2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.

3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.

4. (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.

5. Feverish.
6. (of food) Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.

7. (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting. [from the 19^thc.]

8. Stolen. [from the 20^thc.]

9. (not comparable) Electrically charged.
10. (informal) Radioactive. [from the 20^thc.]
11. (slang, of a person) Very physically and/or sexually attractive.

12. (slang) Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
13. (slang) Sexually aroused; randy.

14. (slang, with for) Attracted to.

15. Popular; in demand.

16. Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.

    a hot topic

17. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.

18. Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
    • 1938, Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:

      "Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.

    • 2002, Peter Krause & Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, p.55:

      The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.

19. Fresh; just released.
    • 1960, Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, Super Market Institute, p.30:

      A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot.

    • 2000, David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, p.34:

      Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot.

20. Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
21. (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something

22. (slang) Characterized by police presence or activity.

23. (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.

24. (of ammunition) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:hot.

Synonyms

• (having a high temperature): heated; see also Thesaurus:hot
• (of the weather): baking, boiling, boiling hot, sultry, sweltering
• (feeling the sensation of heat): baking, boiling, boiling hot
• (feverish): feverish, having a temperature
• (spicy): piquant, spicy, tangy
• (slang: stolen): stolen
• (electrically charged): live
• (radioactive): radioactive
• (slang: physically or sexually attractive): attractive, beautiful, cute, fit, foxy, gorgeous, handsome, hunky, lush, pretty, sexy, studly, tasty, yummy
• (of a draft/check): rubber, bad

Antonyms

• (having a high temperature): chilled, chilly, cold, cold as ice, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, glacial, ice-cold, icy
• (of the weather): cold, freezing, freezing cold, icy
• (feeling the sensation of heat): freezing, freezing cold
• (spicy): bland, mild
• (electrically charged): neutral, dead
• (slang): lifeless

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hot (third-person singular simple present hots, present participle hotting, simple past and past participle hotted)

1. (with up) To heat; to make or become hot.
2. (with up) To become lively or exciting.
   • 2018 "Clean Slate", Wentworth

     Turf war's hotting up.

Synonyms

• hot up; heat, heat up

Anagrams

• -oth, OTH, o'th', oth, tho, tho', thô

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Hyphenation: hot
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Adjective

hot (comparative hoter, superlative hotst)

1. (nautical) right, on the right side

   Synonym: rechts

Derived terms

• van hot naar her

See also

• stuurboord

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English hot.

Adjective

hot (comparative hotter, superlative hotst)

1. (informal) hot, popular
2. (informal) hot, sexy, attractive

Inflection

Ingrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???? (xot?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hot/

Conjunction

hot

1. though

Particle

hot

1. Used to make a pronoun, adverb or determiner indefinite

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[2]

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hoth, whote
• hate, hatte (northern)

Etymology

From Old English h?t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??t/, /h?t/

Adjective

hot

1. hot

Noun

hot (uncountable)

1. hotness

Descendants

• English: hot
• Scots: hat, hait, hate
• Yola: hoat, hote

References

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

Pennsylvania German

Verb

hot

1. third-person singular present indicative of hawwe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xot/, [?xot?]

Adjective

hot (plural hot or hots)

1. hot; sexy

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish h?t n, from Old Norse hót n pl, from Proto-Germanic *hw?t? (“threat”), cognate with Gothic ???????????????? f (??ta). Related to *hw?tan? (“to attack, stab”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?t/

Noun

hot n

1. a threat

Declension

Related terms

• bombhot
• hota
• hotbild
• hotbrev
• hotfull
• hotande
• mordhot
• terrorhot

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?t/, [h????t]

  Rhymes: -ú?t

Etymology 1

Compare Icelandic hót, contraction of Old Norse hvat.

Noun

hot m

1. A whit, a bit.

   n litn hot

   a little bit, a little piece

Etymology 2

Ablaut of Icelandic hvata (“to sting, jab,”) dialectal Norwegian hvæta (“to jab,”) and related to gwätt, wäti.

Noun

hot n (nominative & accusative definite singular hote)

1. A sting, pang.

   ja hav söm e hot ått brösten

   I feel a sting in my chest.