The difference between Cerise and Red
When used as nouns, cerise means a deep, bright red colour tinted with pink, whereas red means any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 .
When used as adjectives, cerise means cherry-colored, whereas red means having red as its color.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cerise and Red
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Cerise as a noun:
A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
Examples:
"color paneC6003A"
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Cerise as an adjective:
Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
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Red as an adjective:
Having red as its color.
Examples:
"The girl wore a red skirt."
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Red as an adjective (of hair):
Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
Examples:
"Her hair had red highlights."
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Red as an adjective (card games, of a card):
Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare
Examples:
"I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens."
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Red as an adjective (often, capitalized):
Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: the U.S. Republican party Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Examples:
"a red state"
"a red Congress"
"the red-black grand coalition in Germany"
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Red as an adjective (chiefly, derogatory, offensive):
Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
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Red as an adjective (astronomy):
Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
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Red as an adjective (particle physics):
Having a color charge of red.
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Red as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):
Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.
Examples:
"color paneF00000"
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Red as a noun (countable):
A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
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Red as a noun (countable, snooker):
One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
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Red as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):
Red wine.
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Red as a noun (countable, informal, birdwatching):
A redshank.
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Red as a noun (derogatory, offensive):
An Amerind.
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Red as a noun (slang):
The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
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Red as a noun (informal):
A red light
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Red as a noun (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal):
red lemonade
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Red as a noun (particle physics):
One of the three color charges for quarks.
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Red as a noun (US, colloquial, uncountable):
chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")
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Red as a verb (archaic):
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Red as a verb: