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Barnett vs Brown - What's the difference?

barnett | brown |

As proper nouns the difference between barnett and brown

is that barnett is {{surname} while Brown is {{surname|common|from=nicknames}.

As a noun brown is

a colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

As an adjective brown is

having a brown colour.

As a verb brown is

to become brown.

barnett

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (surname)
  • brown

    English

    (wikipedia brown)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  • The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
  • (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
  • Black tar heroin.
  • (sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance
  • Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having a brown colour.
  • (obsolete) Gloomy.
  • Antonyms

    * (having brown as its colour) nonbrown

    Descendants

    * American Sign Language:

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To become brown.
  • Fry the onions until they brown .
  • (cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
  • Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
  • To tan.
  • Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
  • To make brown or dusky.
  • * Barlow
  • A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
  • To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
  • (Ure)
  • To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
  • the browning of America

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "brown") * brown adipose tissue * brown ale * brown bastard * brown bear * Brown Bess * Brown Betty * brown-bill * brown bread * brown coal * brown dwarf * brown earth * brown falcon * brown fat * brown goods * brown hawk * brown lacewing * brown lung * brown mustard * brown note * brown paper * brown patch * brown rat * brown rice * brown rot * brown sauce * Brown Shirt * brown sugar * Brown Swiss * brown thrasher * brown trout * brown-bag * brown-bagger * browned off * brownfield * brownie * Brownie point * brownish * brownnose * brownout * brownprint * brownstone * embrown * golden brown * hash browns * meadow brown * nut-borwn * Vandyke brown

    See also

    * golding * 1000 English basic words ----