Brown

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

   “The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.”

2. isim One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
3. isim Black tar heroin.
4. isim A copper coin.

   ““To save a journey up the town, / A razor lent here for a brown: / But if you think the price too high, / I beg you won’t the razor try.””

5. isim A brown horse or other animal.

   “[…] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.”

6. isim A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.

   “Many browns and blacks are immigrants — some of whom have not yet become naturalized citizens of the United States.”

7. isim Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
8. isim A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
9. isim A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.

   “The temptation to have a shot into the brown was great. There was not a head there which was not a big one and the one by himself was not too easy a shot since it is always difficult to shoot when lying in soft snow.”

10. sıfat Having a brown color/colour.

    “But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades.”

11. sıfat Gloomy.
12. sıfat Latino/Latin American
13. sıfat of color.
14. sıfat South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
15. sıfat Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
16. sıfat Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).

    “Near-synonyms: nongreen, antigreen”

17. fiil To become brown.

    “Fry the onions until they brown.”

18. fiil poop.

    “i've just browned myself.”

19. fiil To cook something until it becomes brown.

    “Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]”

20. fiil To tan.

    “Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.”

21. fiil To make brown or dusky.

    “A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.”

22. fiil To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.

    “It is mixed uniformly with olive oil, and rubbed upon the iron slightly heated, which is afterwards exposed to the air, till the wished-for degree of browning is produced.”

23. fiil To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

    “the browning of America”

24. özel isim A surname.

    “(The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)”

25. özel isim An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname.
26. özel isim An Irish surname of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of de Brún.
27. özel isim An unincorporated community in California; named for hotelier George Brown.
28. özel isim An unincorporated community in Louisiana; named for landowner George W. Brown.
29. özel isim An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for postmaster Robert H. Brown.
30. özel isim An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for early settler John Brown.