RED

Meaning of RED in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a red cell (= the most common type of blood cell )

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The red cells carry the oxygen.

a red/brown/dark etc stain

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There was a brown stain on the bedroom ceiling.

a red/green/blue etc colour

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Our door was painted a bright green colour.

a red/white scar

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She still had the faint white scar on her ankle.

a white/black/red etc patch

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The bird has a large black patch on each side of its neck.

be (put/placed) on red alert

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All the hospitals are on red alert.

brick red

colour sth red/blue etc

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Sunset came and coloured the sky a brilliant red.

cut the red tape

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The new rules should help cut the red tape for farmers.

dye your hair (blonde/red etc) (= change its colour, especially using chemicals )

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Craig has dyed his hair black.

fiery red

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leaves that turn fiery red in autumn

flush red/crimson/scarlet

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Robyn felt her cheeks flush scarlet.

paint sth (in) blue/red/green etc

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We painted the door blue.

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Paint the walls in a contrasting colour.

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The living room was painted in pastel shades of pink and blue.

pillar-box red

red alert

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All the hospitals are on red alert.

red blood cell

red button

red card

Red Crescent

Red Cross

red eye

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I took the red eye to LA.

red flag

red giant

red herring

red hot (= used to describe an object or surface that is very hot )

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The handle was red hot.

red meat (= a dark-coloured meat such as beef )

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For health reasons, you should eat less red meat.

red meat

red pepper

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stuffed red peppers

red tape

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a procedure surrounded by bureaucracy and red tape

red

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The whole family had red hair.

red (= because you are cold or drunk, or have a cold )

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His nose was red from the cold.

red/bloodshot (= red because you are upset, tired, ill etc )

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My mother's eyes were red from crying.

red/white/rosé wine

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The waiter brought some red wine.

sb's face is dark/red/purple with rage

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His face went purple with rage.

sb’s face goes/turns red (= becomes red )

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His face went red with embarrassment.

the leaves turn red/brown etc (= become red, brown etc )

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The maple leaves had turned a fiery red.

turn (sth) red/blue/white etc

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Rose’s hair was already turning grey.

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In October the leaves turn orange and yellow.

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The sun had turned the sky a glowing pink.

wear black/white/red etc

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Usually I wear black, grey, or brown.

white/red/blue etc

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I decided to use white paint throughout the house.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

blood

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The red blood cell is finally a small bag containing haemoglobin molecules for transporting oxygen.

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I slid off the seat, keeping my eyes down, expecting to see a smear of red blood on the chair.

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When red blood cells are put into water, they swell and burst due to osmosis.

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Urine analysis, a red blood cell count, and blood pressure were also routinely recorded.

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The question is what will happen to the red blood cell nucleus if it is placed in cancer cell cytoplasm?

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Myoglobin, a protein similar to haemoglobin in red blood cells, acts as a store for oxygen within the muscle fibres.

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As the red blood cell has little cytoplasm, the effect is that both nuclei become surrounded by HeLa cytoplasm.

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Vitamin B12 helps to produce red blood cells which carry oxygen, and therefore prevents anaemia and tiredness.

brick

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The two-storey, nineteenth-century Gothic, red brick building is currently buried in undergrowth.

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They spread out in front of the red brick buildings, whose ramparts produce a castle-like appearance.

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The whole interior is in red brick , partly whitewashed.

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He and Maurine built a one-bedroom red brick bungalow in the yard where Hayes had kept mules as a boy.

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In front of the church is a four-sided courtyard, porticoed in red brick on three sides and with the façade on the fourth.

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These extensions were all done in red brick to fit in with the original structure.

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Louis presents itself as a red brick city, stolid and low, with echoes of its heavy manufacturing past.

carpet

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They went into a room with a red carpet and screens with oriental decorations.

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The Prime Minister stood on a red carpet which led across the runway to the plane.

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The Turnbulls struggled to cope, whilst those in need from another country are given the red carpet treatment.

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It was clinical white with a spotless red carpet , and full on Sundays.

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With email, you take the red carpet route straight through to the top.

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Brass rods, tethering the red carpet to the flights of the staircase, were importances she never saw neglected.

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When she did, Raine would have the red carpet rolled out in her honour.

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Success was not achieved without considerable risk to an old street lamp and the Downing Street red carpet .

cell

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Associations have been shown between low packed cell volume or red cell volume, or both, and the respiratory distress syndrome.

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Glycosylated hemoglobin refers to the specific red cell hemoglobin A types to which a glucose molecule becomes irreversibly attached.

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We have shown that red cell volume predicts outcome in preterm infants.

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Of those patients presenting with gross ascites with normal pitted red cell counts, three were reformed rather than current drinkers.

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Of the 14 women studied, nine had high pitted red cell counts and the majority of the group had ascites.

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Blood was detected in the urine on biochemical screening, but microscopy showed very few red cells .

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The proposed mechanism of improvement of placental transfusion of volume and red cells is attractive.

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The idea goes some way to explaining why some individuals with red cell mutations are immune to Plasmodium infection.

colour

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Following this they release blood into their eyes which turns them a dull red colour .

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The sensitivity can be improved and interference from other ions diminished by extracting the red colour with a solvent.

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And that is why the virginia creeper plant turns a lovely red colour in the autumn.

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A lovely rich rust red colour , it retails at around £4.75 a kilo.

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A good tasting apple with a good red colour .

deer

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The farms below become dots as you climb and heather, alpine plants and red deer now mark you progress.

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Thus, bull elephant seals and red deer stags are big, armed, and dangerous.

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Glen Muick is very lovely with roaming red deer , beautiful waterfalls, and a peaceful loch.

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Most of our red deer are feral, having been introduced to or having escaped from deer parks.

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The tracks show a gentle canter, no wild chase after red deer .

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The roaring and parallel walks of the red deer may be safe trials of strength.

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I have seen foxes playing in the brambles, and once a red deer walked past on the opposite bank.

face

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Rosa twisted, her red face glowered up at Cati.

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He paused, his red face turned toward the blank television set.

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The Reds were spared any more red faces .

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Jimmy left as quickly as possible, afraid that Ellingwood would notice his burning red face .

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Mrs Medlock was a large woman, with a very red face and bright black eyes.

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He was short, with a red face and a redder nose.

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A very red face in the fever.

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His flowing red face was close to hers; she could smell the wine on his breath.

flag

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The structure of the day was to follow red flags as they were unravelled, leading the crowd to preselected locations.

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Volcanologists now recognize these oscillations as a red flag that a volcano is entering a dangerous phase.

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All we needed was a red flag to warn the locals that we might be about to frighten the horses.

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But these approaches might also raise red flags , said Rep.

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Don't enter the firing ranges when the red flags are flying - usually from prominent places such as hilltops.

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He saw the red flag come down for the final time over Red Square in Moscow.

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Now they had six red flags .

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A red flag meant a girl.

hair

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Her short red hair was crudely shaped in a wedge and her pallid cheeks and small chin were peppered with unsightly acne.

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One of them, a boy with red hair , had a bad case of adolescent skin eruptions.

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Lord Greene M.R. gave the example of a teacher being dismissed because of red hair .

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If you have red hair some employers might associate that with a fiery temper before they even meet you.

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With pierced nose, wild red hair and an enormous collection of tattoos, Joolz is a revelation.

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It was a bikini, flower-printed and attractive against her dark red hair .

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According to a national survey of 50 salons, requests for red hair outnumber those for blond for the first time.

herring

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Female speaker I think it's a red herring .

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According to Mattel, antitrust issues were a red herring .

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His racial theory was almost certainly a red herring , 5 but the notion of selective mate choice was not.

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The holocaust is an immense and vile red herring .

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Meg's determination not to see her; her red herring about the mysterious proposal of marriage.

letter

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Only high spot from what should have been a red letter day was the terrific £300 raised for the local Hartlepool hospice.

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The name was spray-painted in thin, straggly red letters on the outside of one of the concrete pill-boxes.

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And it could mean a red letter day for your postie!

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Signs on gates, often painted in big red letters , warn visitors to keep out.

light

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The Governor's sanctum was a leviathan suffused with the same dreary red light .

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On the opposite corner a dusty station wagon idled noisily at the red light .

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Brick red lights , red hair, red eyes.

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Surely a flashing red light would be far more visible in a tunnel than a static light?

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And not just because the black-and-white car he drives sports a red light and siren.

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Violet light was cooler and red light warmer than the others.

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Rows of engines clogged the streets, red lights pulsing like strobes in a disco.

meat

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The survey said that for the first time, there was a shift in reasons given for cutting back on red meat .

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At the time, Sims also said it planned to dispose of its fresh red meat business.

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No one touched red meat anymore.

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Lumps of steak pie; livid red meat , clammy puff pastry.

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Jerky is dried, not cooked, meat and can be easily made at home with any of the red meat game.

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We should cut down on red meat , always choose lean cuts and eat more white meats, such as chicken and turkey.

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Red wine is only appropriate with red meat .

pepper

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The fruit of the tree tomato looks like a cross between a red pepper and an elongated tomato.

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But the Poet interferes with the preparation of the meat and drops a can of red pepper into the broth.

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Add the mushrooms, crushed peppercorns, green and red peppers , tomatoes and basil.

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He must buy a head of iceberg lettuce, a red pepper , a red onion, and some parsley.

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Chop the red pepper and mushrooms and arrange on the aubergines.

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Soaking in a red pepper puree, the dish exceeds expectation.

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Garnish with strips of red pepper and feta cheese.

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The taste buds can handle only periodic assaults and the sweet red pepper bread afforded intermediate breaks and recovery time.

rose

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Among the plastic rats, fluffy animals and copies of the Sun decorating the desks was at least one Labour red rose .

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Mr Melderis appears with a dozen red roses the following day.

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Once the red roses have been pressed, you can consider what type of design you want to create.

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I share his remarks about the red rose belonging to Lancashire.

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He imagined himself walking up to her and presenting her with a single red rose .

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A Hogarth curve of red spray carnations and red roses was shown with a collection of assorted bottles and acacia seed pods.

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In the centre of that was the final touch - one deep red rose .

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I place my three long-stemmed, red roses beside the begonias.

squirrel

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Since grey squirrels are bigger than red squirrels, many of the male reds have stopped reproducing.

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A red squirrel was another early riser.

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I often see foxes, roe deer and red squirrels in the conifer plantation there.

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There is wildlife here in abundance; deer, wild cats, red squirrels , golden eagles, ospreys and reindeer.

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Last year I had seen, just like yesterday, a red squirrel behaving very curiously.

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The study claims that red squirrels have survived alongside grey squirrels for decades in forests in Norfolk and Staffordshire.

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Could it have been planted by a red squirrel ?

tape

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Former rally driver Jean Denton is battling to reduce red tape and bureaucratic burdens on small firms and start-ups.

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Richard Pombo, R-Calif., who sponsored the guest worker amendment, said the current program involves too much red tape .

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It talks about only another layer of government and more red tape and state control, not less.

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All the bureaucratic disclosures and red tape in the country can not offset either.

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But red tape is an inevitable result of reform.

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One vexing problem is the inconsistency of the red tape that ensnares businessmen when they try to do practically anything.

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They are terrified by Labour party proposals to create a great new machine spitting out red tape all over the countryside.

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Therefore, their secret agenda is how best to strangle the utilities with as much bureaucracy and red tape as possible.

wine

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His blood mingled with the red wine of the Mass.

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This full-bodied, supple red wine offers lovely blackberry and black raspberry fruit and hints of chocolate and herbs.

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Drinking red wine from giant tumblers.

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Jasper and I went to the limousine, and Jasper asked the better-looking bartender for two glasses of red wine .

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She brought out a bottle of red wine from the cupboard.

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Researchers there were intrigued by findings that red wine , in test-tube experiments, was found to be an antioxidant.

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Still red wines in Champagne are rare, however, and hardly ever exciting.

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The evidence also suggests that red wine , in particular, is good for the heart.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

bleed red ink

gold-rimmed/red-rimmed etc

paint the town (red)

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Tonight we're going to paint the town red. b. Tonight we're going to colour the city scarlet. 38a.

red as a beet

roll out the red carpet

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Practically lies down and purrs ... Well it's nice to roll out the red carpet, isn't it?

run a (red) light

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An old man who worked in a poultry store was stopped for running a light.

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For every motorist who runs a red light, there are five pedestrians who do it.

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It was going to sea with only its running lights on.

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Jones still faces a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving and an infraction for running a red light.

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Men are more likely to run a red light, forget to signal, or drink and drive.

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The running lights flashed off and a thick silence filled up the day.

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The bigger issue is, will San Franciscans still be allowed to run red lights across Market Street?

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When you run a red light, a few coins save a fine.

see red

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I immediately saw red and wanted to prove him wrong.

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He could see red uniforms further up the river bank, evidence that the Lancers had found a place to cross.

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He looks down and sees red fur.

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Jody sees Red as a great player who is settling for being a merely good player.

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Linda first saw Red at a middle school volleyball game.

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No day went by that did not see Red Hill patrolling the river.

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Quiet and observant walkers may see red deer along this particular stretch.

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When Swindon and Leicester meet, they often see red.

take the red eye

the Red Crescent

the Red Cross

up the workers!/up the reds! etc

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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a red dress

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He drove straight through a red light.

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Her cheeks were red with excitement.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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A little touch of brightness in the room had been Patrick's red pyjamas, where had those pyjamas come from?

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Colbert had curly red hair and an aptitude for getting into scrapes.

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He saw the red flag come down for the final time over Red Square in Moscow.

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In the morning, when she calls her parents, her eyes are red and moist: from sleeplessness, he assumes.

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She was about eleven, with long red hair in two plaits.

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The red velvet background of the reliquary is studded with precious gems and valuable ornaments donated by her grateful clients.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

bright

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There is an enormous range of colours available, from bright reds and yellows, through buffs and browns, to purplish-black.

dark

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Old velvet curtains of dark red draped the window.

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The blood spurted up over the berries and dyed them a dark red .

deep

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Even the interior decorations of the houses seem to feature that same deep red .

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The room itself owed much to Ixibatabian fashion, being decorated in deep reds , terra cotta, and ochre yellow.

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She was clutching her coat tightly around her waist; her face and neck were flushed a deep red .

fiery

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Leafless by early November, the pencil-thin twigs are a uniform fiery red , rising as high as seven feet.

rich

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Both provide sensational autumn leaf colour in rich reds and purples.

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In their newly decorated dining room, alive with rich , warm reds , the grand repast consisted of three meager chops.

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Inland, the rich red of the plough fields glowed in the sunshine.

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Her face looked pale and extinguished, as if dimmed by the rich red of her dress.

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From rich reds and burnished golds to rainbow hues, the selections are plentiful and the palette pretty.

■ VERB

paint

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The Steam Tank body itself was painted in the vivid reds , blues and yellows that are typical of the Engineers Guild.

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The churches are painted an earthy red , with red domes and cupolas, and thick red velvet curtains decorate the insides.

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Window frames painted a vermilion red and decorated with colored glass were polished over and over.