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Red vs Acrylic - What's the difference?

red | acrylic |

As nouns the difference between red and acrylic

is that red is (reverse electrodialysis) while acrylic is (organic chemistry) an acrylic resin.

As an adjective acrylic is

(organic chemistry) derived from acrylic acid or acrylonitrile.

red

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Adjective

(redder)
  • Having red as its color.
  • The girl wore a red skirt.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.
  • Of hair, having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
  • Her hair had red highlights.
  • Leftwing, socialist, or communist.
  • * "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. [http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no16/vo14no16_dragon.htm]
  • (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the political party represented by the color red, especially the U.S. Republican Party.
  • a red state
    a red Congress
  • (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the political party represented by the color red, especially the U.S. Republican Party.
  • a red advertisement
  • (British) Supportive of the Labour Party.
  • (Germany, politics) Related to the .
  • the red -black grand coalition
  • (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
  • (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
  • Antonyms
    * (having red as its colour) nonred, unred
    Derived terms
    * better dead than red * Little Red Riding Hood * Old Red Sandstone * ragged red fibers * red admiral * red alert * red algae * red ant * Red Army * red as a beetroot * redback * red-baiting * red-baked shrike * red bay * red-bellied black snake * red biddy * redbird * red blood cell * red-blooded * Red Brigades * redbud * redbug * red cabbage * red card * red carpet * red cedar * red cell * red cent * Red China * red circle rate * red clover * red Clydeside * redcoat * red coral * red corpuscle * Red Crescent * Red Cross * redcurrant * redden * red-diaper baby * reddish * red diesel * red drum * red earth * red ensign * redeye * red-faced * red fescue * red fire * redfish * red flag, Red Flag * red fox * red giant * red goods * red-green coalition * Red Guard * red gum * red-handed * red hat * redhead * redheaded * red heat * red herring * redhorse * red-hot * red-hot poker * red ink * red kangaroo * Red Ken * red lead * red leaf * red leg * red-legged grasshopper * Red Leicester * red-letter day * red light * red-light district * Red List * red maple * red marrow * red mass * red meat * red menace * red mercury * red mist * red mite * red mulberry * red mullet * red oak * red ocher * red osier * red packet * red panda * red-pencil * red pepper * red pine * red planet * red-point * redpoll * Red Poll * red puccoon * red rag * red rattle * red ribbon * redroot * red route * red scare * Red Sea * red setter * red shank * redshank * red shift * red-shouldered hawk * red siskin * red snapper * red snow * red spider * Red Spot * red spruce * Red Square * red squill * red squirrel * red state * red steenbras * reds under the bed * red tape * red tide * redtop * red-top * red valerian * Red Vienna * red water * red whortleberry * redwing * red-winged blackbird * red wolf * redwood * red worm * river red gum * western red cedar

    Noun

  • (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.
  • (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
  • (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
  • (countable, and, uncountable) wine.
  • * {{quote-song
  • , year = 1977 , title = (Scenes from an Italian Restaurant) , composer = (Billy Joel) , album = , passage = A bottle of red , a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / in our Italian restaurant. }}
  • (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
  • * 1971 , Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005), page 202:
  • The big market, these days, is in Downers. Reds and smack—Seconal and heroin—and a hellbroth of bad domestic grass sprayed with everything from arsenic to horse tranquillizers.
  • (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
  • (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) red lemonade
  • (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
  • Derived terms
    * antired * blood red * brick red * cherry red * Chinese red * chrome red * Congo red * go red * in the red * Indian red * Panama Red * phenol red * Pompeian red * see red * Turkey red * Venetian red

    See also

    * * * primary colour

    References

    * *

    Etymology 2

    From the archaic verb (m).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (rede)
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (colloquial)
  • References

    * *

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl), from (etyl), compare (etyl) (m).

    Verb

    (redd)
  • (Pennsylvania)
  • References

    *

    acrylic

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (organic chemistry) Derived from acrylic acid or acrylonitrile.
  • Containing an acrylic resin.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) An acrylic resin.
  • A paint containing an acrylic resin.
  • When it comes to painting, i prefer using acrylics as my medium.
  • a painting executed using such a paint.
  • A thick sheet of plastic.
  • A liquid coating system based on an acrylic resin