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

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

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.

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

Brown
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Hex triplet		#964B00
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(150, 75, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(30°, 100%, 59%)
Source		BF2S Color Guide
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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

The planet Jupiter has orange, red, and brown coloration in its clouds.
Astronomers have recently detected the existence of the long theorized formerly hypothetical but now known to be actual astronomical objects called brown dwarves, which are intermediate in mass between a gas giant planet and a star. ^[3]

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

Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where redevelopment for infill housing is complicated by real or perceived environmental contaminations. ^[4]

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

Beef, Venison, Duck, and Lamb are all meats that are colored brown.
Brown sugar is a favorite topping for porridge served with milk, a favorite breakfast food.
Chocolate is often associated with the color brown.

Games

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

Ethnography

Brown is sometimes used to refer to brown people in general or sometimes more specifically to the darker skinned Indo-Aryan and Dravidian of South Asia^[5] or to Latin Americans.
The term brown or bronze may be used by mestizo Hispanics to describe themselves, and by extension these terms may sometimes be applied to all Hispanics, even those of purely European ancestry.
Austronesians in the 19th Century and 20th Century were often referred to as the Malayan race or brown race.

Holidays

The colors brown and orange represent the United States and Canadian holiday of Thanksgiving.

Movies

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

Music

Brown Sugar is one of the most popular songs by the Rolling Stones (Album: Sticky Fingers).
The song "Brown Eyed Girl" is by the artist Van Morrison (Album: Blowin' Your Mind!).
The song "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" is by the artist Primus (Album: Tales from the Punchbowl).

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 is often used as a color of athletic jerseys and logos. Perhaps the most notable are the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. The team got its name from its founder and long-time coach, Paul Brown. The St. Louis Browns are a former Major League Baseball team, now known as the Baltimore Orioles. For about 25 years, the San Diego Padres had brown as a primary team color.

Brown pigments

Bistre
Sienna (burnt and raw)
Umber (burnt and raw)

References

^ "Some Experiments on Color", Nature 111, 1871, in John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (1899). Scientific Papers. University Press.
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191
^ Website about brown dwarves:
^ Glossary of Terms for Brownfields (PDF). HSRC. Retrieved on 2006-05-25.
^ Ahmed, Tanzila. Alternet mix the message. Desi Power Online. 2006. September 9, 2006. <http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/33078/>.
^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342636/
^ Swami Panchadasi The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms Des Plaines, Illinois, USA:1912--Yogi Publications Society Page 37
^ 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
Auburn	Bistre	Brown	Buff	Burgundy	Burnt sienna	Burnt umber	Copper	Liver	Mahogany	Maroon	Ochre

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: Translations for: 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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