(n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.
(a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.
(v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
(b. t.) To become crimson; to blush.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
(2) The lack of obvious motive baffled commentators who said the British director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II appeared to have it all: success, wealth, respect, a wife and two young children.
(3) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
(4) Ruby Wax identifies with it In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.
(5) At this point his face really had gone crimson, which it does when he's genuinely cross.
(6) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(7) He then settled into directing a sequence of moderately entertaining, star-powered thrillers such as Crimson Tide (1995), The Fan (1996) and Enemy of the State (1998), each with apocalyptic tones and convincing performances (from Denzel Washington, Robert De Niro and Will Smith respectively).
(8) Crimson Dragon imagines a future in which humans have colonized other planets in the cosmos but fallen foul of an alien epidemic.
(9) Not because they are uninteresting to me, but because I am making space for all the other questions, the questions about falling in love, about the taste of water in the air, about the blue-black feathers and crimson eyes of the koel bird.
(10) But perhaps the most arresting installation of all is sitting on the sofa next to Hirst in the form of Camila Batmanghelidjh , founder and director of Kids Company , swathed in a bright crimson printed cloak and matching turban, with fluorescent yellow Crocs on her feet.
(11) The crimson swirls were painted, like some of the large late paintings by Henri Matisse, with a brush lashed to the end of a long pole.
(12) Now, it's called Crimson Dragon and, while the Microsoft personnel at the booth couldn't confirm whether Kinect was still part of the package, I can confirm one can now play it with a control pad.
(13) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
(14) "[The authorities] think that anyone who is independent or not following their views is a spy of the west," Panahi told the Guardian at the time of Crimson Gold's release.
(15) This was the Crimson’s third straight March Madness appearance and last year’s tournament victory, not to mention the NBA success of Jeremy Lin, currently with the Houston Rockets, has established Harvard as one of the more unlikely “basketball schools” in the country.
(16) All eight Salmonella stock cultures which failed to produce a crimson color belonged to rarely isolated serotypes.
(17) But the most surprising thing was the wording in the crimson ring: FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE, this order of chivalry's motto.
(18) The color of the mucosa is bright and rich, ranging from crimson the bluish.
(19) BBC2 is also delving into the world of Victorian prostitution with a four-part adaptation by Lucinda Coxon of Michael Faber's novel The Crimson Petal & The White.
(20) According to the Harvard Crimson student newspaper, Rakesh described final clubs as sending “an unambiguous message that they are the exclusive preserves of men” and said their exclusionary practices and access to power “undermine [the values] of the larger Harvard College community”.
Modena
Definition:
(n.) A certain crimsonlike color.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duchess of Cambridge, due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, will not suffer the indignities of, say, Mary of Modena in 1688, forced to give birth in front of an audience of 200 and still accused of a bit of business with bedpan and changeling.
(2) The vestibular tests with ENG, which is enclosed in the routine study of the patients of the Headache Centre of Modena University (Italy), has shown a high percentage of alterations in different tests.
(3) Eighty vaccinated cattle and 16 susceptible controls were intranasally exposed to an aerosol containing a homologous FMD challenge virus (O1 BFS, A10 Holland or C1 Detmold) or a heterologous virus (A5 Modena or C1 Modena).
(4) The aim of the present study was to examine the levels of lead and cadmium in hair, blood and teeth of children living from birth in an industrialized area near Modena.
(5) In the present paper the A.A. report data about CHCl3 exposure, intake and uptake bin five agonistic swimmers (three males and two females), members of the same sport association, and regularly attending the same indoor swimming pool in Modena.
(6) 142 children (71 males and 71 females) representing 20.8% of those aged 6-7 years living in Sassuolo (Modena) have been included in the study.
(7) Photograph: Tom Jenkins Although Panini doesn’t release sales figures due to a confidentiality agreement with Fifa, Martins can say that since February, the small factory in São Paulo has printed nine million stickers a day on its 21 machines – the one in Modena, which is bigger, has been printing over 11 million a day – and the staff on the factory floor have been working round the clock to meet the demand.
(8) The results with regard to the amount of time that nasogastric feeding as well as tracheal tube are kept and the length of the hospital stay, were compared to those ones of a similar number of consecutive cases operated at our institution (ENT Department of Modena University) before February 1990 but not rehabilitated.
(9) When friends ask him for the occasional sticker freebie, he is quite rightly indignant: “When Volkswagen releases a new model no one asks people who work there for a free car.” Panini is, as the name suggests, an Italian company, but it has had a factory near São Paulo since 1989, which provides stickers to all of South America and Latin America, while the one in Modena, Italy, attends to everyone else’s sticker needs.
(10) A retrospective study of all admissions to the University of Modena Neurological Department from 1976-1986; 51 cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) were found.
(11) ORL Modena, 1978), wherein S presses a button, within a criterion time window, to a brief episode of frequency modulation in a pure tone.
(12) Our study involves the children hospitalized from 1974 to 1984 in the First Department of Pediatrics, University of Modena.
(13) The Preventive Medicine Unit for Personnel in the USL N. 16 of Modena has conducted a study to evaluate the prevalence of subjective symptoms and professional dermatitis among nurses working in a general surgery operating theatre of the Modena "Policlinico" Hospital (36 and 41 employees were studied respectively in 1990 and 1991), before and after the installation of gas evacuators and a modification in the use of detergent and disinfectant substances.
(14) The effect of gentamycin was investigated at the University of Modena Phthisiology and Respiratory Diseases Department.
(15) The first worth is about the research into the problem of infections, in particular of viral hepatitis B, made by the Authors in the area of Modena.
(16) In view of such a kind of fluoroprophylaxis in our country the Authors considered quite interesting to effect a research about the amount of fluoride in the waters of the district of Modena.
(17) Of the 10,000 abortions performed at the Regional hospital at Modena in Italy between 1982 and 1986, 199 (2%) led to early complications.
(18) v. Portland Retail Druggists Association and De Modena v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan have helped to clarify the answer to that question.
(19) The TNB was joined by the Berlin Schaubühne, the Liège Théâtre de la Place, the Emilia Romagna foundation theatre in Modena, the Belem cultural centre in Lisbon and the University of Tampere, Finland .
(20) In order to develop a scoring system for selecting patients at high risk of organic diseases of the colon, who would need a colonoscopy or a barium enema, we conducted a study with 14 GPs in the local health care district of Modena.