Brown vs Brawn - What's the difference?
brown | brawn |
A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
(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
Having a brown colour.
(obsolete) Gloomy.
To become brown.
(cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
To tan.
To make brown or dusky.
* Barlow
To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
Physical strength; muscularity.
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(chiefly, British) head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.
In transitive terms the difference between brown and brawn
is that brown is to give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface while brawn is make fat, especially of a boar.As nouns the difference between brown and brawn
is that brown is a colour like that of chocolate or coffee while brawn is strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.As verbs the difference between brown and brawn
is that brown is to become brown while brawn is make fat, especially of a boar.As an adjective brown
is having a brown colour.As a proper noun Brown
is {{surname|common|from=nicknames}.brown
English
(wikipedia brown)Noun
(en noun)- The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* (having brown as its colour) nonbrownDescendants
* American Sign Language:Verb
(en verb)- Fry the onions until they brown .
- Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
- Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
- A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
- (Ure)
- 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 brownSee also
* golding * 1000 English basic words ----brawn
English
Noun
(-)page 349:
- The man was a bruiser, the sort who'd learned his science in tavern brawls. Given his size and lack of agility, he relied on his brawn to win. In any wrestling match, Crowley would triumph easily.
page 562:
- The two men were husky, picked for their brawn by the little man who sauntered into the room.
page 218:
- The youth agreed to the scheme and used his brawn to begin moving pieces into place, starting by moving the planet Rann into the Thanagarian star system