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brown

  (broun) pronunciation
n.

Any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue that are medium to low in lightness and low to moderate in saturation.

adj., brown·er, brown·est.
  1. Of the color brown.
    1. Having a brownish or dark skin color.
    2. Often Offensive. Of or being a person of nonwhite origin.
  3. Deeply suntanned.
tr. & intr.v., browned, brown·ing, browns.
  1. To make or become brown.
  2. To cook until brown.
phrasal verb:

brown off Chiefly British Slang.

  1. To make angry or irritated.

[Middle English, from Old English brūn.]

brownish brown'ish adj.
brownness brown'ness n.
 
 
Food Lover's Companion: brown

To cook quickly over high heat, causing the surface of the food to turn brown while the interior stays moist. This method not only gives food an appetizing color, but also a rich flavor. Browning is usually done on top of the stove, but may also be achieved under a broiling unit.

 
Idioms: brown

Idioms beginning with brown:
brown bagger
browned off
brownie points
brown nose

See also do up (brown).

 
Veterinary Dictionary: brown

1. a composite color, therefore variable from creamy to dark brown which is almost black, made from black, red and yellow.
2. a coat color; in horses a brown coat with a tan muzzle; a few hairs of another color may be scattered through the coat creating a brown roan (white admixture), brown chestnut (admixture of chestnut), etc. A brown-ticked gray is a gray horse with wheat grain sized patches of brown hairs scattered through the coat; in cattle a rich creamy brown as in Brown Swiss and many other indigenous breeds.

 
Word Tutor: brown
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IN BRIEF: Fry in a pan until it changes color. Also: The color of most dirt.

pronunciation The recipe said to brown the chicken in a pan.

 
Wikipedia: brown
The brown and orange disks of color are objectively identical, in identical gray surrounds, in this image; their perceived color categories depend on what white they are compared to.
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The brown and orange disks of color are objectively identical, in identical gray surrounds, in this image; their perceived color categories depend on what white they are compared to.

Brown, when used as a general term, is a color which is a dark yellow, orange, or red, of low luminance relative to lighter or white colored objects.[1]

Some pale orange and yellow colors of lower saturation are called light browns.

Brown

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The color brown is displayed at right. Another name for this color (rarely used) is dark orange.

Brown paint can be produced by adding black or their complementary colors to rose, red, orange, or yellow colored paint. As a color of low intensity it is a tertiary color in the original technical sense: a mix of the three subtractive primary colors is brown if the cyan content is low. Brown exists as a color perception only in the presence of a brighter color contrast: yellow, orange, red, or rose objects are still perceived as such if the general illumination level is low, despite reflecting the same amount of red or orange light as a brown object would in normal lighting conditions.

The first recorded use of brown as a color name in English was in 1000.[2]

Brown in culture

Astronomy

Business

  • Pullman Brown[citation needed] is the color of the United Parcel Service (UPS) delivery company with their trademark brown trucks and uniforms. UPS is a trademark of UPS. In its advertising, UPS refers to itself as "Brown" ("What can Brown do for you?").

City Planning

Cooking

  • Browning (partial cooking) is a process to remove excess fat from meat by heating, as under a broiler or in a frying pan, until it turns brown.

Food

Games

  • In the billiard game of Snooker the 4-point snooker ball is brown.

Ethnography

Holidays

Movies

  • Four shades of brown [6] is the title of a Swedish film from 2004

Music

Nature

  • Many soils are brown.
  • Many kinds of wood and the bark of many trees are brown.
  • Feces are usually brown.
  • A large number of mammals and predatory birds have a brown coloration. This sometimes changes seasonally, and sometimes remains the same year-round. This color is likely related to camouflage, since the backdrop of some environments, such as the forest floor, is often brown, and especially in the spring and summertime when animals like the Snowshoe Hare get brown fur.

Parapsychology

  • It is said that people who have brown auras are often unethical businessmen who are in business purely for the sake of greed, or people who are just generally greedy and avaricious. [7]

Politics

  • In the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, the German Nazi paramilitary organization the Sturmabteilung (SA) wore brown uniforms and were known as the brownshirts. It was often said of members of the SA that they were like a beefsteak--"brown on the outside, and red on the inside"--because many of them were former Communists. The color brown was used to represent the Nazi vote on maps of electoral districts in Germany. If someone voted for the Nazis, they were said to be "voting brown". The national headquarters of the Nazi party, in Munich, was called the Brown House. At Adolf Hitler's Obersalzberg home, the Berghof, he slept in a "bed which was usually covered by a brown quilt embroidered with a huge swastika. The swastika also appeared on Hitler's brown satin pajamas, embroidered in black against a red background on the pocket. He had a matching brown silk robe." [8]

Sports

Brown pigments

References

  1. ^ "Some Experiments on Color", Nature 111, 1871, in John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (1899). Scientific Papers. University Press. 
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191
  3. ^ Website about brown dwarves:
  4. ^ Glossary of Terms for Brownfields (PDF). HSRC. Retrieved on 2006-05-25.
  5. ^ Ahmed, Tanzila. Alternet mix the message. Desi Power Online. 2006. September 9, 2006. <http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/33078/>.
  6. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342636/
  7. ^ Swami Panchadasi The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms Des Plaines, Illinois, USA:1912--Yogi Publications Society Page 37
  8. ^ Infield, Glenn B. Eva and Adolf New York:1974--Grosset and Dunlap Page 142 (The author compiled this book by interviewing Albert Speer and others who had been in Hitler's inner circle, such as SS men, secretaries, and housekeepers. The author also consulted the Musmanno Archives, a record of post-war interviews with over 200 people who had been close to Adolph Hitler or Eva Braun.)

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  Shades of brown  
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Pale brown Raw Umber Russet Rust Sandy brown Seal brown Sepia Tan Wheat Zinnwaldite Fallow Bole
                       
Taupe Medium Taupe Pale Taupe Dark Khaki Khaki Light Khaki Sandy Taupe Ecru Beige
                 

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Translations: Brown

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - brun
n. - brun, brunt
v. tr. - brune
v. intr. - brunes

idioms:

  • brown ale    mørkt øl
  • brown nosing    spytslikkeri, røvslikkeri
  • brown rice    upolerede ris, naturris
  • brown sugar    farin, råsukker
  • browned off    sur, gnaven, led og ked af det

Nederlands (Dutch)
bruin, gebruind, bruine kleding, aanbraden, bruinen, iemand met bruine huidskleur

Français (French)
adj. - marron, brun, bronzé, châtain, bis (le pain), complète (farine), d'emballage (papier), (sucre) brun
n. - brun, marron, bronzé
v. tr. - bronzer, brunir, hâler, (Culin) faire dorer, faire roussir
v. intr. - roussir, brunir (qn), (Culin) dorer

idioms:

  • brown ale    bière brune
  • brown nosing    lèche-botte, lécher les bottes de (fam)
  • brown rice    riz complet
  • brown someone off    saper le moral de qn
  • brown sugar    sucre brun
  • browned off    en avoir marre, saturé

Deutsch (German)
adj. - braun, gebräunt
n. - Braun
v. - bräunen, anbraten

idioms:

  • brown ale    dunkles Starkbier
  • brown nosing    (Slang) in den Hintern Kriechen
  • brown rice    Naturreis
  • brown someone off    (Slang) überdrüssig
  • brown sugar    brauner Zucker
  • browned off    (Slang) überdrüssig

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καφέ (χρώμα)
v. - τσιγαρίζω, ροδίζω, καβουρντίζω, σιγοψήνω, μαυρίζω (στον ήλιο)
adj. - καστανός, καφετής, φαιός, σκούρος, ηλιοκαμένος, (για ψωμί) μαύρο

idioms:

  • brown ale    μαύρη μπίρα
  • brown nosing    κολακείες, γλείψιμο
  • brown rice    ακατέργαστο ρύζι
  • brown sugar    καφέ ζάχαρη
  • browned off    (καθομ.) θυμωμένος, χολωμένος

Italiano (Italian)
rosolare, bruno, abbronzato

idioms:

  • brown ale    birra scura
  • brown nosing    leccapiedi
  • brown rice    riso integrale
  • brown sugar    zucchero di canna
  • browned off    scocciato

Português (Portuguese)
n. - cor (f) marrom
v. - ficar bronzeado, assar até ficar marrom
adj. - marrom, bronzeado, moreno

idioms:

  • brown ale    tipo (m) de cerveja inglesa
  • brown nosing    tentar obter favor por meios desonestos
  • brown rice    arroz (m) integral
  • brown sugar    açúcar (m) mascavo
  • browned off    irritado

Русский (Russian)
коричневый, бурый, темный, небеленый, поджарить, потемнеть, воронить

idioms:

  • brown ale    коричневый эль
  • brown nosing    подхалимаж
  • brown rice    коричневый рис
  • brown sugar    коричневый сахар
  • browned off    уставший, разочарованный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - bronceado, sofrito, dorado
n. - marrón, moreno
v. tr. - sofreír, dorar, broncear
v. intr. - sofreír, dorar

idioms:

  • brown ale    tipo de cerveza negra
  • brown nosing    persona servil, adulador
  • brown rice    arroz integral
  • brown someone off    estar harto, estar hasta la coronilla
  • brown sugar    azúcar moreno
  • browned off    estar harto, estar hasta la coronilla

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - brunt, brun färg, flock
v. - bryna, skjuta mitt in bland, bli brun
adj. - brun

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
褐色的, 棕色的, 褐色, 使变成褐色, 变成褐色

idioms:

  • brown ale    黑啤酒
  • brown nosing    拍马屁
  • brown rice    糙米
  • brown sugar    红糖
  • browned off    厌烦的, 生气的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 褐色的, 棕色的
n. - 褐色
v. tr. - 使變成褐色
v. intr. - 變成褐色

idioms:

  • brown ale    黑啤酒
  • brown nosing    拍馬屁
  • brown rice    糙米
  • brown sugar    紅糖
  • browned off    厭煩的, 生氣的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 갈색의, 볕에 탄
n. - 갈색 , 동전
v. tr. - ~을 갈색으로 하다, 볕에 타게 하다
v. intr. - 갈색이 되다, 볕에 타다

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 褐色の, 茶色の, 日焼けした
n. - 褐色, 茶色の絵の具
v. - 褐色にする, 褐色になる

idioms:

  • brown ale    ブラウンエール
  • brown nosing    おべっかを使う
  • brown rice    玄米
  • brown sugar    赤砂糖
  • browned off    うんざりする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) اللون البني (فعل) سمر, أسمر, أعطى لونا بنيا (صفه) بني, أسمر اللون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮חום, שחום‬
n. - ‮צבע חום, אדם שצבע עורו שחום‬
v. tr. - ‮הזהיב, השחים, גרם להפסקת חשמל‬
v. intr. - ‮הזהיב, השחים, השתזף‬

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