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In obsolete terms the difference between brown and gree

is that brown is gloomy while gree is to agree.

As nouns the difference between brown and gree

is that brown is a colour like that of chocolate or coffee while gree is one of a flight of steps.

As verbs the difference between brown and gree

is that brown is to become brown while gree is to agree.

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)
  • 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

    Related terms

    * brunet * burnet

    See also

    * golding * 1000 English basic words ----

    gree

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Compare (degree), (grade).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) One of a flight of steps.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) , Chapter 5:
    • "My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees , for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."
  • (label) A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
    • He is a shepherd great in gree .
  • Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
  • *
  • *:And thenne the kynge lete blowe to lodgynge / and by cause sir Palomydes beganne fyrste / and neuer he went nor rode oute of the feld to repose / but euer was doynge merueyllously wel outher on foote or on horsbak / and lengest durynge Kynge Arthur and alle the kynges gaf sir Palomydes the honour and the gree as for that daye
  • A degree.

    • Etymology 2

    From (pre-reform) (etyl) , from Old (etyl) (gray).

    Noun

  • Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
  • * 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
    • bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.
  • * Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale :
    • And notified is þur?out þe toun / Þat every wi?t, wiþ greet devocioun, / Sholde preyen Crist þat he þis mariage / Recyve in gree and spede þis viage.
  • * Fairfax
    • Accept in gree , my lord, the words I spoke.
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night . vol. 1:
    • When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly gree , if the King permit me."

    Etymology 3

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To agree.
    • (Fuller)