| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| brown |
| 1. n. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. |
| The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel. |
| (color panel, 623017) |
| 2. n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points. |
| 3. n. Black tar heroin. |
| 4. n. (slang) A copper coin. |
| 5. n. (sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance. |
| 6. adj. Having a brown colour. |
| 7. adj. (obsolete) Gloomy. |
| 8. adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin. |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To become brown. |
| Fry the onions until they brown. |
| 10. v. (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown. |
| Brown the onions in a large frying pan. |
| 11. v. (intransitive, transitive) To tan. |
| Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun. |
| 12. v. To make brown or dusky. |
| 13. v. To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface. |
| 14. v. (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region. |
| the browning of America |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| brun |
| 1. adj. of the color brown |
| 2. adj. (politics usually derogatory) of or pertaining to fascism or right-wing nationalism |
| ett brunt parti - a brown party |
