Red vs Horse - What's the difference?
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Having red as its color.
* Shakespeare
Of hair, having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
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.
(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.
(British) Supportive of the Labour Party.
(Germany, politics) Related to the .
(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.
(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
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(slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
* 1971 , Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005), page 202:
(informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
(Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) red lemonade
(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
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(Pennsylvania)
(lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.
#A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
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# The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.
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#(lb) A large person.
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#(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
(lb) Equipment with legs.
#In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
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#A frame with legs, used to support something.
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Equipment.
#A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
#A breastband for a leadsman.
#An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
#A jackstay.
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(lb) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
(lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
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*:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
(lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).
To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
* (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
* (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :
To provide with a horse.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
* 1888 , :
To sit astride of; to bestride.
* 1608 , , II. i. 203:
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
To take or carry on the back.
* S. Butler
To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
* 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone
(uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.
As nouns the difference between red and horse
is that red is (reverse electrodialysis) while horse is a poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand or horse can be (variant of basketball).red
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(redder)- The girl wore a red skirt.
- Your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.
- Her hair had red highlights.
- a red state
- a red Congress
- a red advertisement
- the red -black grand coalition
Antonyms
* (having red as its colour) nonred, unredDerived 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 cedarNoun
- 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.
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 redSee also
* * * primary colourReferences
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* (wikipedia)Etymology 2
From the archaic verb (m).Verb
(head)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
References
* *Etymology 4
From (etyl), from (etyl), compare (etyl) (m).Verb
(redd)References
*horse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
Usage notes
* The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarseSynonyms
* (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knightHyponyms
* (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallionDerived terms
* change horses in midstream * cutting horse * dark horse * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * * flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse * from the horse's mouth * get off one's high horse * hold one's horses * horse and carriage * horseback * horse-breaker * horse-chestnut * horse-drawn * horse face * horsefeathers * horseflesh * horsefly * horsely * horse latitudes * horselaugh * horseman * horsemanship * horse of a different color * horse opera * horse pill * horseplay * horsepower * horse race * horse racing * horseradish * horse sense * horses for courses * horseshit * horseshoe * horse-stinger * horse trading * horsewhip * horsey, horsy, horsie * hung like a horse * I could eat a horse * one-horse race * one-horse town * pack horse, packhorse * plowhorse, ploughhorse * pommel horse * rocking horse * saddle horse * sawhorse * sea horse, seahorse * straight from the horse's mouth * sumpter horse * swap horses in midstream * vaulting horse * warhorse * willing horse * workhorse * work like a horseSee also
(kinds of horse by physical attributes) * stallion, sire, ridgeling, gelding * mare, dame * colt, yearling * filly, foal * pony (kinds of horse by employment) * sumpter, rowney * palfrey * charger, destrier * brumby, mustang (related terms) * knight, cavalier, cavalry, chivalry * equid, equine * gee, haw, giddy-up, whoa * hoof, mane, tail, withers * gallop, canter, walk, trot * neigh, whinny * tandem, team, chariot, cart, wagon * ungulate * *Verb
(hors)- "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
- I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.
- being better horsed , outrode me
- He horsed himself well.
- Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
- the keeper, horsing a deer
- So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
Derived terms
* horse around * unhorseEtymology 2
Noun
(-)- Alright, mate, got any horse ?
