RED

  1. (acronym) .  reverse electrodialysis.
  2. Noun.  A Communist.
  3. Noun.  A supporter of a sports team who wears a red strip.
  4. Adjective.  Communist.
  5. Adjective.  Having red as its colour.
  6. Adjective.  Of hair, having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
  7. Adjective.  Leftwing, socialist, or communist.
  8. Adjective.  (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the Republican Party.
  9. Adjective.  (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the Republican Party.
  10. Adjective.  (British) Supportive of the Labour Party.
  11. Adjective.  (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
  12. Noun.  (countable, and) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670nm, 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.
  13. Noun.  (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; ''(usually capitalized)'' a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
  14. Noun.  (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
  15. Noun.  (countable, and) Red wine.
  16. Noun.  (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
  17. Verb.  (archaic) (past of, rede) .
  18. Verb.  (colloquial) (alternative spelling of, redd) .
  19. Verb.  (transitive, Pennsylvania) (alternative spelling of, redd) .

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