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Red
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Appendix:Variations of "red"
English
Pronunciation
en En-Red.ogg
Noun
A Communist.
en May 18, 1935 Gen. Chiang Kai-shek Urges Full Development of Resources in Yunnan The China Weekly Review https://archive.org/details/millards-1935.05.18/ 72 12 52770868 385 https://archive.org/details/millards-1935.05.18/page/n14/ 1 The 5th “Red” army corps is also making for Wuting while the 9th “Red” army corps is preparing bamboo rafts for crossing the Kin Sha Kiang (River) northwards to invade south-western Szechuan.
en 1941 w:George Orwell The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius The Lion and the Unicorn Pt. I The policeman who arrests the "Red" does not understand the theories the "Red" is preaching; if he did, his own position as bodyguard of the monied class might seem less pleasant to him.
en September 30, 1954 Nationalist Forces Rout 40 Red Boats w:The Washington Post and Times Herald https://archive.org/details/per_washington-post_1954-09-30_299/ 77 299 0190-8286 2269358 4 https://archive.org/details/per_washington-post_1954-09-30_299/page/n3/ 2 A Defense Ministry communique said 40 Communist craft were sighted Tuesday off Peikantang, a tiny island in the Matsu group, but fled when the island's guns opened fire. The Matsus are off the Red port of Foochow, opposite the northern tip of Formosa.
en November 27, 1954 Red Assault on Tiny Isle Beaten Off, Say Nationalists The Daily Colonist https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist1154uvic_1/ Victoria, British Columbia 96 294 1 https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist1154uvic_1/ 6, 7 First reports were that the Reds, in five gunboats and swarms of junks, succeeded in landing on tiny Wuchiu in Formosa Strait, but were beaten off with many captured.The attack on Wuchiu, a mile-long, half-mile-wide island 15 miles off the mainland, was the first amphibious operation by the Reds since they began boasting last summer they would "liberate" Formosa.
en 1963 December 18 Chinatown News https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/ubcctn-2490/page-12 12 Teng left China just before the Red takeover to come to this country. https://web.archive.org/web/20230607072456/https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/ubcctn-2490/page-12 7 June 2023
en motion picture James Cameron The Abyss 1989 Sixty knots? No way, Barnes. The Reds don't have anything that fast.
A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit.
en xiangqi The player moving the red pieces.
en World XiangQi Rules https://www.wxf-xiangqi.org/images/wxf-rules/2018_World_XiangQi_Rules_English2018.pdf 2018-04 13 w:World Xiangqi Federation When the Chief Arbiter announces the start of the game, the player taking Black will press the clock, and Red would make his move before pressing the clock. https://web.archive.org/web/20260102002707/https://www.wxf-xiangqi.org/images/wxf-rules/2018_World_XiangQi_Rules_English2018.pdf
Proper noun
A nickname given to someone who has or had red hair.
Adjective
en adjective
Communist.
en the Red Army
en by generalization Related to socialist or leftist politics.
en dated now usually offensive ethnic slur Native American.
en the Red race
en red-skinned see redskin
Derived terms
en Redfella
Anagrams
en der DRE Der Der. EDR ERD RDE der erd
en female given names male given names 3-letter words unisex given names
en Communism Hair People
Alemannic German
Etymology
From gsw gmh rede, from gsw goh redia, goh radia, from gsw gem-pro *raþjǭ, goh *raþjō. Cognate with de Rede, en rede.
Noun
gsw noun f
gsw Uri speech
References
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gsw Talking
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f la Red
es red; Net
es Rosa Montero Más brutos y no nacemos El País 2020-06-28 Madrid https://elpais.com/elpais/2020/06/23/eps/1592923638_873900.html 1134-6582 De eso se aprovechan esos malnacidos que atiborran la Red de falsedades o de noticias antiguas que hacen pasar por nuevas, lo cual está volviendo tarumba al personal. This is taken advantage of by those bastards who flood the Net with falsehoods or with old news passing of as new, which confuses people. https://web.archive.org/web/20230607173207/https://elpais.com/elpais/2020/06/23/eps/1592923638_873900.html 7 June 2023