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# brown

«brown» in Mova's school dictionary: **the colour of chocolate, wood or soil** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (brown, browner, brownest); noun (brown); verb (brown, browns, browned, browning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Brown is the colour of chocolate, wood or soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#m1)

2) To brown food is to cook it until its outside turns brown, like toast or onions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a colour that sorts things into groups to count or compare; parts add up to the whole. In art: mix red, yellow and blue (or orange and blue) to make brown. In science: leaves turn brown in autumn; brown bears. In cooking: brown bread, brown sugar, brown the meat. Phrases: dark brown, light brown, brown bread, brown paper, brown eyes.

### examples

- There are 12 brown and 7 white eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#x1)
- She has 4 brown dogs and 2 black dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#x2)
- How many of the 30 bears are brown? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#x3)
- 9 brown cows are in the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#x4)
- The leaves turn brown and fall in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#x5)
- He has brown hair and brown eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#x6)
- Wrap the parcel in brown paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#x7)
- Brown the onions in a pan before adding the soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#x8)
- What beautiful brown spots on your face! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/#x9)

### note

Colour words are adjectives and nouns. A colour that makes groups; parts add up to the whole. No clue by itself. Myth: brown eggs and white eggs are the same inside; the shell colour depends on the hen.

### In the corpora

- [Mixing many paint colours together makes brown or grey, because each paint soaks up different parts of the light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/6/)
- [Brown bears, including grizzlies, catch salmon at waterfalls in autumn to build up fat before winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/9/)
- [Black and brown bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter and are only about the size of a guinea pig.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/11/)
- [Deer see fewer colours than we do, so to them an orange tiger looks much like the green and brown leaves around it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/11/)
- [The eastern brown snake causes more serious bites because it lives near farms and towns where it meets people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brown» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brown/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.