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Maroon
Maroon (US & UK mə-ROON, Australia mə-ROHN) is a dark brownish red color which takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut.
The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as “a brownish crimson or claret color.”
In the RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, maroon is created by turning down the brightness of pure red to about one half. Maroon is the complement of teal.
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Brown
Brown is a composite color. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black, and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue. In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown is made by combining red and green, in specific proportions. The brown color is seen widely in nature, in wood, soil, human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. According to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, brown is the least favorite color of the public; the color is most often associated with plainness, the rustic and poverty.
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Maroon (noun)
An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves. from 17th c.
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Maroon (noun)
A castaway; a person who has been marooned. from 19th c.
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Maroon (noun)
A dark red, somewhat brownish, color.
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Maroon (noun)
A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (e.g. to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid).
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Maroon (noun)
An idiot; a fool.
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Maroon (adjective)
Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.
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Maroon (adjective)
Of a maroon color
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Maroon (verb)
To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a deserted island.
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Brown (noun)
A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
“The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.”
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Brown (noun)
One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
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Brown (noun)
Black tar heroin.
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Brown (noun)
A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
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Brown (adjective)
Having a brown colour.
“nonbrown”
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Brown (adjective)
Gloomy.
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Brown (adjective)
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
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Brown (verb)
To become brown.
“Fry the onions until they brown.”
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Brown (verb)
To cook something until it becomes brown.
“Brown the onions in a large frying pan.”
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Brown (verb)
To tan.
“Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.”
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Brown (verb)
To make brown or dusky.
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Brown (verb)
To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
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Brown (verb)
To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
“the browning of America”
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Maroon (adjective)
of a brownish-red colour
“ornate maroon and gold wallpaper”
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Maroon (noun)
a member of any of various communities in parts of the Caribbean who were originally descended from escaped slaves. In the 18th century Jamaican Maroons fought two wars against the British, both of which ended with treaties affirming the independence of the Maroons.
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Maroon (verb)
leave (someone) trapped and alone in an inaccessible place, especially an island
“a novel about schoolboys marooned on a desert island”
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Brown (adjective)
of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil
“she had warm brown eyes”
“an old brown coat”
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Brown (adjective)
(of bread) light brown in colour and typically made with unbleached or unrefined wholemeal flour
“a slice of brown toast with low fat spread”
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Brown (adjective)
dark-skinned or suntanned
“his face was brown from the sun”
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Brown (adjective)
relating or belonging to a human group characterized as having relatively dark-coloured skin (chiefly used of peoples of ancestry other than European or African)
“I interviewed 60 mostly black and brown leaders around our nation”
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Brown (adjective)
another term for coloured (sense 3 of the adjective)
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Brown (noun)
brown colour or pigment
“the brown of his eyes”
“the print is rich with velvety browns”
“a pair of boots in brown”
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Brown (noun)
brown clothes or material
“a woman all in brown”
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Brown (noun)
a brown thing, in particular the brown ball in snooker.
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Brown (noun)
a satyrid butterfly, which typically has brown wings with small eyespots.
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Brown (noun)
another term for coloured (sense 2 of the noun)
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Brown (verb)
make or become brown, typically by cooking
“grill the pizza until the cheese has browned”
“a skillet in which food has been browned”