Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Red: the colour of the dot on the later models of cameras and lenses manufactured by a well known German AG. (wink) Yours Phil...x > >Message: 8 >Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:24:22 -0400 >From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Thanks Montie and Congrats >To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20070402142239.024fe498@comporium.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > >At 01:28 PM 4/2/2007, you wrote: > >>A picture doesn't need to be colored red. It can imply red. It can >>use the meaning of "red" in another language (in Spanish, for >>example, the word "red" means "net" or "network"; in Dutch it is a >>form of the verb "to rescue"). An angry person is red. A flag or >>light telling drivers to stop is red. > >red > adjective > a red dress: scarlet, vermilion, ruby, cherry, cerise, cardinal, >carmine, wine, blood-red; coral, cochineal, rose; brick-red, maroon, >rusty, rufous; reddish; poetic/literary damask, vermeil, sanguine. > he was red in the face: FLUSHED, reddish, pink, pinkish, florid, >rubicund; ruddy, rosy, glowing; burning, feverish; poetic/literary >rubescent; archaic sanguine. > his eyes were red: BLOODSHOT, swollen, sore. > red hair: reddish, auburn, Titian, chestnut, carroty, ginger. > noun (informal, derogatory) the war against the Reds: COMMUNIST, >socialist, left-winger, leftist; informal Commie, lefty. > >in the red OVERDRAWN, in debt, in debit, in deficit, in arrears. >see red (informal) BECOME VERY ANGRY, become enraged, lose one's >temper; informal go mad, go crazy, go wild, go bananas, hit the roof, >go up the wall, fly off the handle, blow one's top, flip (one's lid), >go ballistic; Brit. informal go spare, do one's nut; N. Amer. >informal flip one's wig, blow one's lid/stack. > red > adjective (redder, reddest) > of a colour at the end of the spectrum next to orange and >opposite violet, as of blood or rubies. (of hair or fur) of a >reddish-brown colour. (of a person's face) red due to embarrassment, >anger, or heat. dated or offensive (of a people) having reddish skin. > (of wine) made from dark grapes and coloured by their skins. > of or denoting the suits hearts and diamonds in a pack of cards. > denoting a red light or flag used as a signal to stop. denoting >something forbidden, dangerous, or urgent. > (of a ski run) of the second-highest level of difficulty. > informal, chiefly derogatory communist or socialist. > archaic or literary involving bloodshed or violence. > noun > red colour or pigment. > informal, chiefly derogatory a communist or socialist. > (the red) the situation of having spent more than is in one's >bank account. > >the red planet Mars. >see red informal become very angry suddenly. > >reddish adjective >reddy adjective >redly adverb >redness noun > n. >[] > one of the primary colors, color similar to that of blood; redness; >condition of being in debt; person who holds radical political >beliefs (especially a Communist) > >;-) Some ideas! > >Tina > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- Noos, votre bureau virtuel sur Internet : Mail... Web : webmail.noos.fr