brown

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈbɹaʊ̯n/    /ˈbɹaʊ̯n/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. countable,uncountable
    — The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
  2. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points. countable
  3. Black tar heroin. uncountable
  4. A copper coin. archaic,countable,slang
    — “To save a journey up the town, / A razor lent here for a brown: / But if you think the price too high, / I beg you won’t the razor try.”
  5. A brown horse or other animal. countable,uncountable
    — […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.
  6. A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance. capitalized,countable,ethnic,informal,slur
    — Many browns and blacks are immigrants — some of whom have not yet become naturalized citizens of the United States.
  7. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis. countable,uncountable
  8. A brown trout (Salmo trutta). countable,informal,uncountable
  9. A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at. countable,uncountable
    — The temptation to have a shot into the brown was great. There was not a head there which was not a big one and the one by himself was not too easy a shot since it is always difficult to shoot when lying in soft snow.
动词 v.
  1. To become brown. intransitive
    — Fry the onions until they brown.
  2. poop.
    — i've just browned myself.
  3. To cook something until it becomes brown. transitive
    — Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]
  4. To tan. intransitive,transitive
    — Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
  5. To make brown or dusky. transitive
    — A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
  6. To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface. transitive
    — It is mixed uniformly with olive oil, and rubbed upon the iron slightly heated, which is afterwards exposed to the air, till the wished-for degree of browning is produced.
  7. To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region. derogatory,ethnic,intransitive,offensive,slang
    — the browning of America
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a brown color/colour.
    — But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades.
  2. Gloomy. obsolete
  3. Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.; Latino/Latin American US,capitalized,sometimes
    — Reminds me of the time they asked me and a group of other Latino, predominantly Mexican, friends for our passports when we tried to go to their [expletive] party a little over a year ago.[…] The saddest part is that I don’t think they understand why it’s insulting to ask a brown person for a passport.
  4. Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.; of color. US,broadly,capitalized,sometimes
  5. Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.; South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African capitalized,sometimes
    — I think they sort of realized like, oh, we have Aasif who is a Muslim, an American, brown person, you know, who can sit on that fence between cultures and sort of talk about what it is--what this is from the perspective of being an insider and an outsider at the same time.[…] I think there is in the sort of South Asian, you know, psyche, a kind of adoration of Western ideals and culture that was sort of implanted into us by the British, you know, and this idea that everything that is Western is superior and better than what we have and what India--you know, what is true to our own culture.
  6. Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.; Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American capitalized,sometimes
    — I came to deeply embrace anti-racism in slow, sustained increments. To do so, I had to embrace my own identity as a Brown person -- and understand my own complicity in white supremacy.[…] I had grown up in an entire Southeast Asian culture that had largely been groomed, indoctrinated and brainwashed into white-centered thinking over some 450 years of colonization by our Western overlords: Spain for almost 400 years, and then the United States of America for nearly 50 years more.
  7. Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
    — Near-synonyms: nongreen, antigreen

词形变化

browns plural broon alternative,Northumbria browner comparative more brown comparative brownest superlative most brown superlative broon alternative,Northumbria browns present,singular,third-person browning participle,present browned participle,past browned past broon alternative,Northumbria

词汇关系

衍生词
anti-brown Arran brown Asian brown flycatcher Banks' brown big brown bat Bismarck brown black and brown Boston brown bread brownable brown adipose tissue brown ale brown alga brown ammonia brown anole brown argus brown as a berry brown asbestos brownback brown bag brown-bag brown-bagger brown bagging brown bag test brown bar brown bastard brown beaksedge brown bean brown bear brown bent brown bentgrass Brown Bess Brown Betty brown-bill brownbill brown-billed scythebill brown bits brown bomber brown boobook brown bottle flu brown box brown box crab brown bread brown-brown brown bullhead brown butter brown catshark brown cheese brown cloud brown clover brown coal Browncoat brown coati brown cow brown crab brown creeper brown dwarf brown earth browned off brown envelope journalism brown envelope syndrome brownette browneye brown eye brown-eyed brown-eyed soul brown-eyed Susan brownface brown falcon brown fat brownfield brown gargle Brown George brown goods brown goshawk brown-haired brown hairstreak brown hare brown hawk brownhead brown hemp brown heroin brown holland brown honeyeater brown hydrogen brown hyena brownie brownification brown inca brownish brown job brown joke brown jolly brown king crab brown kingfisher brown lacewing brown leaf brown leaf spot brown lung brownly brown mahogany brown marmorated stink bug brown mint brown mustard brownness brownnose brown-nose brown-noser brown noser brown note brown ocean effect brown ochre brown onion brown oriole brown out brownout brown-out brown owl brown palm civet brown paper brown paper bag party brown paper bag test brown patch brown pelican brown-point shield skin longirostris brown pound brown powder brown power brown priest brownprint brown rat brown recluse brown recluse spider brown rice brown rock chat brown rosin paper brown rot brown-rumped minivet brown sahib brown sauce brown seaweed brown shark Brown Shirt Brownshirt brown shoe brown shower brown shrike brown shrimp brownskin brown snake brown soft scale brown spar brown spot brownspotted brown stew brown stew chicken brown sticker brownstone brown study brown sugar Brown Swiss brown-tailed rock chat brown-tail moth brown tang brown teal brown thrasher brown thumb brown tinamou browntop brown trout brown up brownware brownwash brown water brown-water navy brown Windsor soup brown woolly monkey brownwort browny bush brown Cappagh brown Cappah brown Cassel brown chocolate-brown code brown Colorado brown stain common brown common brown cup common brown earwig De Kay's brown snake do it brown do it up brown do someone brown done brown embrown garnet brown golden brown golden-brown alga great brown kingfisher hair-brown hash brown hash-brown hashed brown hash browns hashbrowns hash-browns hashed browns Himalayan brown bear Hobart brown hot brown indigo brown Kassel brown king brown King Island brown thornbill light brown apple moth little brown bat little brown dove little brown fucking machine little brown job little brown jug Mars brown meadow brown Mexican brown mono-brown mousy brown mummy brown Natal brown nigger-brown no brown in town nonbrown northern brown argus northern brown bandicoot southern brown bandicoot North Island brown kiwi nut-brown nut-brown butter Okarito brown kiwi overbrown plain brown wrapper prebrowned Pullman brown red-brown reddish-brown red-green-brown alliance saddle brown Sanford's brown Sanford's brown lemur shit-brown shouldered brown small brown crow Spanish brown spice brown stately bush brown sub-brown dwarf Sudan brown sunbrowned take someone to brown town the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog toffee-brown tree brown unbrown unbrowned Vandyke brown wall brown wood brown

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
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