Red vs Pill - 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
, 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:
(informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
(Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) red lemonade
(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
(archaic) (rede)
(colloquial)
(Pennsylvania)
A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
* 1864 , Benjamin Ellis, The Medical Formulary [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC14843090&id=pHoMvHRmrlIC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=%22take+two+pills%22&as_brr=1]
(senseid) Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
* 1986 , Jurriaan Plesman,
(slang) A comical or entertaining person.
(slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
* {{quote-book, year=1960
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, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter IV
, passage=You see, he's egging Phyllis on to marry Wilbert Cream. [...] And when a man like that eggs, something has to give, especially when the girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.}}
* 2000 , Susan Isaacs, Shining Through [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0061030155&id=6_1FJWFEYGoC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=%22a+real+pill%22&sig=RCUR5O3MhNXeq8rMOnx9-LR5Mfo]
(informal) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.
* 1999 , Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0060987561&id=LOYeA9GmrEwC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=%22sweater+pills%22&sig=U11GOkTpfHlqyGyIdk7ZNZ0GNuI]
A baseball.
* 2002 , John Klima, Pitched Battle: 35 of Baseball's Greatest Duels from the Mound [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0786412038&id=G126RsLD3MsC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=%22threw+the+pill%22&sig=NmyoxWN_bP5AHc9imVPMTxY7lvw]
(firearms) (informal) a bullet (projectile)
(textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
* 1997 , Jo Sharp, Knitted Sweater Style: Inspirations in Color [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1561581895&id=l5h-cGU5HUYC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=sweater+pilling&sig=6gfLWBL1QHVQZmbSYhJ4oipm8Kc]
To form into the shape of a pill.
To medicate with pills.
(label) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
To peel; to make by removing the skin.
*(Bible), (w) xxx. 37
*:[Jacob] pilled white streaksin the rods.
To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
(label) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.
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:(Spenser)
The peel or skin.
* Holland
As nouns the difference between red and pill
is that red is (reverse electrodialysis) while pill is a small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication or pill can be the peel or skin or pill can be an inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.As a verb pill is
(textiles) of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber or pill can be (label) to peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.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
* *External links
* (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
*pill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) or (etyl) pille (whence (etyl) pil), probably from (etyl) pilula.Noun
(en noun)- Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.
- Jane went on the pill when she left for college.
- She got pregnant one month after going off the pill .
Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders Through Body and Mind:
- Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.
- Instead, I saw a woman in her mid-fifties, who was a real pill ; while all the others had managed a decent “So pleased,” or even a plain “Hello,” Ginger just inclined her head, as if she was doing a Queen Mary imitation.
- One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills ,” hung halfway to the floor.
- Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.
Synonyms
* (small object for swallowing) tabletDerived terms
* bitter pill to swallow * blue pill * chill pill * horse pill * morning-after pill * on the pill * pill beetle * pill bug * pill popper * red pill * sugar pill * pop pillsVerb
(en verb)- During processing, inferior short fibers (which can cause pilling and itching) are removed to enhance the natural softness of the yarn and to improve its wash-and-wear performance.
- Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.
- She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills , as the locusts.
