From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).
Meanings
(not-comparable) Having a yellow-orange colour.
(not-comparable) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
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mi kōkōwai (having yellow-orange colour) · nn okergul (having yellow-orange colour) · de ockerfarben (having yellow-orange colour) · cs okrový (having yellow-orange colour) · cy ocraidd (having yellow-orange colour) · pl ochrowy (in archeology) · hu okker (having yellow-orange colour) · cy melynaidd (having yellow-orange colour) · el ωχρός (having yellow-orange colour) · af okergeel (having yellow-orange colour) · pt ocre (having yellow-orange colour) · mi pākākā (having yellow-orange colour) · nl okerkleurig (having yellow-orange colour) · es ocre (having yellow-orange colour) · de ockern (having yellow-orange colour) · mul ochreus (having yellow-orange colour) · ga ócair (having yellow-orange colour) · ca ocraci (having yellow-orange colour) · gl ocre (having yellow-orange colour) · nl oker (having yellow-orange colour) · mg bibidia (having yellow-orange colour) · sk okrový (having yellow-orange colour) · af oker (having yellow-orange colour) · hu okkersárga (having yellow-orange colour) · de ocker (having yellow-orange colour) · fi okrankeltainen (having yellow-orange colour) · fi okra (having yellow-orange colour) · ca ocre (having yellow-orange colour) · fi okrahauta- (in archeology) · pl ochrowy (having yellow-orange colour) · fr ocre (having yellow-orange colour) · ro ocru (having yellow-orange colour) · uk вохряни́й (having yellow-orange colour) · cy ocr (having yellow-orange colour) · hy դեղնակարմիր (having yellow-orange colour) · uk во́христий (having yellow-orange colour) · mi hōrua (having yellow-orange colour) · nb okergul (having yellow-orange colour) · ru жёлто-оранжевый (having yellow-orange colour) · grc ὠχρός (having yellow-orange colour)
From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.
(countable, uncountable) A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour.
(colloquial, countable, qualifier:molecular biology, uncountable) The stop codon sequence "UAA".
(countable, dated, slang, uncountable) Money, especially gold.
‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’ 1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in Hard Times:
(countable, uncountable) Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
From Old French ocre and its source Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra, “pale yellow”), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).
Meanings
To cover or tint with ochre.
The sun gloats in the sky, casting a gleam on the pasture where there was so much umbering and ochreing only moments before. 2009 July 6, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “How the Thunder Sounds”, in New York Times:
[…] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water. 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter 14, in Capricornia, New York: Appleton, published 1943, page 229: