Engels Woord van de dag

brown

bruin

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Engels > Nederlands

brown

1. bruin

2. bruinbakken

3. bruin worden

Engels > Engels

brown

1. n. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

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

(color panel, 623017)

2. n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.

3. n. Black tar heroin.

4. n. (slang) A copper coin.

5. n. (sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.

6. adj. Having a brown colour.

7. adj. (obsolete) Gloomy.

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

9. v. (intransitive) To become brown.

Fry the onions until they brown.

10. v. (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.

Brown the onions in a large frying pan.

11. v. (intransitive, transitive) To tan.

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

12. v. To make brown or dusky.

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

14. v. (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

the browning of America

Nederlands > Engels

bruin

1. adj. brown

2. n-n. the color brown

Het bruin van de stam contrasteerde fel met het groen van de bladeren. - The brown color of the trunk contrasted sharply with the green color of the leaves.

3. n. (slang) heroin

Mijn god, zit ie aan de bruin? - My god, is he on heroin?