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read (RED) (verb)
1. To have examined and grasped the meaning of written or printed characters, words, or sentences: Aurora read the newspaper earlier in the morning before she went to work.
2. To have gained information through the perusal of information available in printed, written, or computer form: Frank read the entire list of words shown on the computer and realized that he didn't know all of the definitions.
3. To have reviewed something looking for potential errors: Timothy read the printer's proofs of his new book and was very pleased.
4. To have ordered or reprimanded severely: Greg's mother read the riot act to him because he refused to go to bed when she told him to do it earlier.
red (RED) (noun)
1. A color that is part of a visible spectrum and resembles blood or a ruby stone: The red of the candy looked colorful in the lovely glass dish.
2. A term used to describe an economic or financial loss: The company was in the red last year and the possibility of a turnabout in the near future is minimal.

Madison read a large book with a red cover. It was an account of how the theater company wound up in the red because the management had not read the interests of the patrons correctly.

Units related to: “red
(Modern Latin: from Latin rubidus, "red"; from the red lines in its spectrum; metal)
(Greek: the color rose [red]; roselike, rose-colored)
(Latin: red, reddish)
(a re-writing of the classical story with excessive wordiness)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “red
red dwarf
A small, relatively cool star with low luminosity.
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red giant
A star with a relatively low surface temperature, a few thousand degrees at most and radius between 10 and 100 times that of the sun.

Such objects are representative of stars at the end of their evolutionary life.

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red shift
1. The observed shift of the characteristic spectral lines of, for example, a galaxy, toward the red, longer-wavelength, end of the spectrum as a result of the galaxy's recession from the earth.
2. The lengthening of the wavelengths of light from an object as a result of the object's motion away from the earth.

It is an example of the Doppler effect. The red shift in light from galaxies is evidence that the universe is expanding.

This entry is located in the following unit: Astronomy and related astronomical terms (page 21)