Brown vs. Beige

Brownnoun

A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

Brownnoun

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

Brownnoun

(uncountable) Black tar heroin.

Brownnoun

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

Brownadjective

Having a brown colour.

Brownadjective

(obsolete) Gloomy.

Brownadjective

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

Brownverb

(intransitive) To become brown.

Brownverb

To cook something until it becomes brown.

Brownverb

To tan.

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.

Brownadjective

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

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.

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;

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

Brownadjective

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

Brownadjective

dark-skinned or suntanned

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)

Brownadjective

another term for coloured (sense 3 of the adjective)

Brownnoun

brown colour or pigment

Brownnoun

brown clothes or material

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

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.

Beigenoun

A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

Beigenoun

Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Beigeadjective

Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

Beigeadjective

(informal) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

Beigenoun

Debeige.

Beigenoun

a very light brown

Beigeadjective

of a light grayish-brown color

Beigenoun

a pale sandy fawn colour

Beige

Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool.