English noun: brown |
1. | brown (attribute) an orange of low brightness and saturation |
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| Synonyms | brownness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | buff, burnt sienna, burnt umber, caramel, caramel brown, chestnut, chocolate, coffee, deep brown, hazel, light brown, mahogany, mocha, olive brown, puce, raw sienna, reddish brown, sepia, taupe, umber, Vandyke brown, Venetian red, yellowish brown |
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2. | Brown (person) Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) |
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| Synonyms | Robert Brown |
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| Instance hypernym | botanist, phytologist, plant scientist |
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3. | Brown (person) abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859) |
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| Synonyms | John Brown |
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| Instance hypernym | abolitionist, emancipationist |
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4. | Brown (artifact) a university in Rhode Island |
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| Synonyms | Brown University |
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| Instance hypernym | university |
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| Part meronym | Little Rhody, Ocean State, Rhode Island, RI |
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| Member meronym | Ivy League |
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English verb: brown |
1. | brown (change) fry in a pan until it changes color |
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| Samples | Brown the meat in the pan.
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| Examples | The chefs brown the vegetables |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cook |
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| Domain category | cookery, cooking, preparation |
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2. | brown (change) make brown in color |
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| Samples | The draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard.
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| Synonyms | embrown |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize |
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