Brown vs. Grizzly

Brownnoun

A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

‘The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.’;

Grizzlyadjective

Grey-haired, greyish.

Brownnoun

One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.

Grizzlyadjective

misspelling of grisly

Brownnoun

(uncountable) Black tar heroin.

Grizzlynoun

A grizzly bear.

‘Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!’;

Brownnoun

A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.

Grizzlynoun

In hydraulic mining, a grating used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.

Brownadjective

Having a brown colour.

Grizzlyadjective

Somewhat gray; grizzled.

‘Old squirrels that turn grizzly.’;

Brownadjective

(obsolete) Gloomy.

Grizzlynoun

A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.

Brownadjective

(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

Grizzlynoun

In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.

Brownverb

(intransitive) To become brown.

‘Fry the onions until they brown.’;

Grizzlynoun

powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America

Brownverb

To cook something until it becomes brown.

‘Brown the onions in a large frying pan.’;

Grizzlyadjective

showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair;

‘whose beard with age is hoar’; ‘nodded his hoary head’;

Brownverb

To tan.

‘Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.’;

Brownverb

(transitive) To make brown or dusky.

Brownverb

(transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.

Brownverb

To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

‘the browning of America’;

Brownadjective

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

‘Cheeks brown as the oak leaves.’;

Brownnoun

A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

Brownverb

To make brown or dusky.

‘A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.’;

Brownverb

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

Brownverb

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

Brownverb

To become brown.

Brownnoun

an orange of low brightness and saturation

Brownnoun

Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

Brownnoun

abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)

Brownnoun

a university in Rhode Island

Brownverb

fry in a pan until it changes color;

‘brown the meat in the pan’;

Brownadjective

of a color similar to that of wood or earth

Brownadjective

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’;

Brownadjective

(of bread) light brown in colour and typically made with unbleached or unrefined wholemeal flour

‘a slice of brown toast with low fat spread’;

Brownadjective

dark-skinned or suntanned

‘his face was brown from the sun’;

Brownadjective

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’;

Brownadjective

another term for coloured (sense 3 of the adjective)

Brownnoun

brown colour or pigment

‘the brown of his eyes’; ‘the print is rich with velvety browns’; ‘a pair of boots in brown’;

Brownnoun

brown clothes or material

‘a woman all in brown’;

Brownnoun

a brown thing, in particular the brown ball in snooker.

Brownnoun

a satyrid butterfly, which typically has brown wings with small eyespots.

Brownnoun

another term for coloured (sense 2 of the noun)

Brownverb

make or become brown, typically by cooking

‘grill the pizza until the cheese has browned’; ‘a skillet in which food has been browned’;

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.