Red vs Wrong - 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.
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, title = (Scenes from an Italian Restaurant)
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, 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.
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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.
(archaic) (rede)
(colloquial)
(Pennsylvania)
Incorrect or untrue.
* 1592 , (William Shakespeare), Richard III , Act II, Scene I:
Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
Immoral, not good, bad.
Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
Not working; out of order.
Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
(obsolete) Twisted; wry.
(informal) In a way that isn't right; done incorrectly; wrongly.
Something that is immoral or not good.
An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
* (rfdate) John Dowland:
The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
* 1592', , ''Henry VI'', Part III, Act IV, Scene I, line 101. — I blame not her: she could say little less; She had the ' wrong .
The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
* 1607', , ''Timon of Athens'', Act IV, Scene III, line 28. — Thus much of this will make Black white, foul fair, ' wrong right, Base noble, old young, coward valiant.
To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
* The dealer wronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
* 1591', , ''Henry VI'', Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 109. — Thou dost then ' wrong me, as that slaughterer doth Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
* 1597', , ''Henry IV'', Part II, Act IV, Scene I, line 121. — ... And might by no suit gain our audience. When we are ' wrong'd and would unfold our griefs, We are denied access unto his person Even by those men that most have done us wrong.
To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
* 1598', , ''Julius Caesar'', Act III, Scene II, line 121. — O masters! if I were dispos'd to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who (you all know) are honorable men. I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To '''wrong''' the dead, to '''wrong''' myself and you, Than I will ' wrong such honorable men.
As nouns the difference between red and wrong
is that red is (reverse electrodialysis) while wrong is something that is immoral or not good.As an adjective wrong is
incorrect or untrue.As an adverb wrong is
(informal) in a way that isn't right; done incorrectly; wrongly.As a verb wrong is
to treat unjustly; to injure or harm.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
*wrong
English
Adjective
- Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong .
- Among this princely heap, if any here / By false intelligence or wrong surmise / Hold me a foe
- You're wrong : he's not Superman at all.
- It is wrong to lie.
- A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
- Something is wrong with my cellphone .
- Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong .
- a wrong nose
Usage notes
* The single-word comparative and superlative forms wronger and wrongest are no longer in common use, except humorously; rather, the locutions “more wrong” and “most wrong” are preferred. * When wrong is used attributively, before a noun, the noun is usually treated as definite, using the article the; hence, for example, one says, “I dialed the wrong number”, “he gave the wrong answer”, and “she took the wrong approach”, even though there are many possible wrong numbers, answers, and approaches, of which only one was dialed, given, or taken.Synonyms
* injurious * unjust * faulty * detrimental * unfit * unsuitable *Derived terms
* wrength * wrongly * wrongfulAntonyms
* rightQuotations
* 2007 January 3, Ken Miller, “The Collapse of Intelligent Design: Will the next Monkey Trial be in Ohio?”, Case Western University, Strosacker Auditorium *: that statement is wrong. Now that's not an incidental statement, that is the heart and soul of the Intelligent Design argument, and in this case it turns out to be wrong. Now it's even wronger than that [laughter ] because it turns out that not only do these proteins make up the Type-III Secretory Apparatus but almost every protein in the bacerial flagellum is strongly homologous to proteins that have other functions elsewhere in the cell.Adverb
(en adverb)- I spelled several names wrong in my address book.
Noun
(wikipedia wrong) (en noun)- Injustice is a heinous wrong .
- Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?