different between red vs wallflower

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

Etymology

wall +? flower

Alternative forms

• wall-flower
• wall flower

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??l.?fl??.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?l.?fl??.?/, /?w?l.?fl??.?/

Noun

wallflower (plural wallflowers)

1. Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
2. Gastrolobium grandiflorum, a poisonous bushy shrub, endemic to Australia.
3. A person who does not dance at a party, due to shyness or unpopularity; by extension, anyone who is left on the sidelines while an activity takes place.
   • 1878, Fannie Bean, Dr. Mortimer's Patient: A Novel, page 23:

     Mrs. Galbraith shook all over with laughter as she replied, “Hear that boy, asking me to dance ! I'm content to be a wallflower, now-a-days."

   • 1885, The Freemason's Repository, page 133:

     And now, by virtue of his office, he is entitled to a seat in the Grand Lodge. Is it any wonder he is a wall-flower there  […]

   • 1897, Mrs. C. E. Humphry, Manners for Women, page 53:

     It is a triumph, of course, to have plenty of partners, and not to be a wallflower for a single dance.

   • 1913, Plasterer, page 8:

     Jack Breen was a wallflower; still at the same time I noticed he was cultivating an ornamental smile — a Jack of Trumps, you bet.

   • 1921, Collier's, page 3:

     She was a wallflower in a sleepy little town itself a wallflower. She was a joke to the village wits and a byword to the village belles.

   • 2017, Sam Wasson, Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (?ISBN), page 94:

     Second City was a wallflower at the show business ball. It needed to be. Improvisers needed to fail, and fail safely; and in the Midwest, far from Broadway and Hollywood, they really could. Second-class stature was the secret ingredient, ...

4. (informal) Any person who is socially awkward, shy, or reserved.
   • 2019, Liz Tyner, To Win a Wallflower, Harlequin (?ISBN)

     I've always been a wallflower, even in my own home. But, I'm willing to learn to be a part of your world. I would like to. I have already told my parents that I want to go to soirées.

Translations

Verb

wallflower (third-person singular simple present wallflowers, present participle wallflowering, simple past and past participle wallflowered)

1. (intransitive) To stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.
   • 2010, Alexandra Carter, Janet O'Shea, The Routledge Dance Studies Reader (page 237)

     […] the idea that a full tango experience is impossible without the presence of wallflowers and without the threat of wallflowering as the potential dancers enter the tango club.

Further reading

• Erysimum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wallflower on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “wallflower”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.