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brown

braun

Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
brown
1. Adjektiv:
2. [1] von brauner Farbe
3. Substantiv:
4. [1] die Farbe Braun
[1] My favorite color is brown.
Braun ist meine Lieblingsfarbe.
5. Verb:
6. [1] bräunen
[1] Let the onions brown for a few minutes.
Englisch > Englisch
brown
1. subst. 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. subst. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
3. subst. Black tar heroin.
4. subst. (slang) A copper coin.
5. subst. (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
Deutsch > Englisch
braun
1. adj. brown
brauner Zucker - brown sugar
2. adj. tan (skin, due to sun exposure)
3. adj. (politics, historic) of the Nazi party and organisations (due to the brown SA uniform)
4. adj. (politics, loosely, pejorative) of the political right, especially the far right