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macron | brown |

As a noun macron

is macron.

As a proper noun brown is

.

macron

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (orthography) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark () placed over any of various letters. It usually is used to indicate that the pronunciation of the vowel is long; in Mandarin pinyin (Chinese), it indicates the first tone, e.g. ch?z?ch?.
  • * 1986 : Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell, Reading Latin: Grammar, vocabulary and exercises'', Introduction — ''General notes (note 1), page 2 (22nd printing (2007); Cambridge University Press; ISBN 9780521286220)
    • All vowels are pronounced short'' unless marked with a ¯ (macron ) over them. So observe different vowel length of ‘''i''?’ in, e.g., ''f?lia , etc. It may be helpful, but is not essential, to mark macra in your exercises.

    Usage notes

    * The pronunciation is pronounced short, as ([a]). * Macra is a rare plural.

    Related terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * (wikipedia "macron") * breve * solidus * vinculum

    References

    * “ ?macron]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----

    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 ----