purple vs red

purple

adj
  • Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue. 

  • Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session. 

  • Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose. 

  • Mixed between social democrats and liberals. 

  • Imperial; regal. 

  • Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. 

  • Blood-red; bloody. 

noun
  • Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis). 

  • Purpura. 

  • The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana. 

  • Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk. 

  • Earcockle, a disease of wheat. 

  • A cardinalate. 

  • A color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. 

  • Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. 

  • Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. 

  • Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings. 

verb
  • To clothe in purple. 

  • To dye purple. 

  • To turn purple in colour. 

red

adj
  • Having red as its color. 

  • Having a color charge of red. 

  • Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”) 

  • Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations 

  • Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation. 

  • the red-black grand coalition in Germany 

  • With a red hue due to embarrassment or sunburn. 

  • Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. 

  • The U.S. Republican Party. 

  • Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany. 

noun
  • Tomato ketchup. 

  • Red wine. 

  • A red light (a traffic signal) 

  • The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales. 

  • A red kangaroo. 

  • An American Indian. 

  • A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. 

  • One of the three color charges for quarks. 

  • One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. 

  • Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour. 

  • Red lemonade 

  • Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc. 

  • A redshank. 

  • Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red"). 

  • The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug. 

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