red adj

1 having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]

2 characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: crimson, violent]

3 (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" [syn: crimson, reddened, red-faced, flushed]

4 red with or characterized by blood; "waving our red weapons o'er our heads"- Shakespeare; "The Red Badge of Courage"; "the red rules of tooth and claw"- P.B.Sears

1 the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood [syn: redness]

2 a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana [syn: Red River]

3 emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries [syn: Bolshevik, Marxist, pinko, bolshie]

4 the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year" [syn: loss, red ink] [ant: gain] [also: redding, redded, reddest, redder]Redding n : a town in north central California on the Sacramento Riverredding See red

English

Verb

redding

1. present participle of redd

Dutch

Noun

redding (plural reddingen)

1. Something that saves, rescues something else.

Redding may refer to:

People

• Benjamin B. Redding (1824-1882), Canadian-born California politician
• Cory Redding (b. 1980), American baseball player
• Dick Redding (1890-1948), American baseball player
• Gene Redding (b. 1945), American singer
• George Redding (1900-1974), Canadian ice hockey player
• Jheri Redding (1907-1998), American hair care entrepreneur
• Louis L. Redding (1901-1998), American civil rights advocate
• Noel Redding (1945-2003), English musician
• Oscar Redding (b. ca. 1974), Australian actor and director
• Otis Redding (1941-1967), American soul singer
• Phil Redding (1890-1928), American baseball player
• Rob Redding (b. 1976), American commentator
• Tim Redding (b. 1978), American baseball player

Fictional characters

• Burr Redding, inmate on TV's Oz
• Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, inmate in novel and film The Shawshank Redemption

Places in the United States

• Redding, California
• Redding, Connecticut
• Redding, Iowa
• Redding Township, Indiana
• Redding Township, Michigan

Places in Europe

• Redding, Scotland, a village in Falkirk

There is also:

• Reddingmuirhead, a village in Falkirk uphill from Redding

Entertainment

• Redding (band), American indie rock band from St. Louis
• The Reddings, American band formed by Otis Redding's two sons

Other

• Redding Record Searchlight, newspaper serving Redding, California
• Redding Reloading Equipment, a firearms accessories manufacturer

See also

• Reding
• Redington
• Reddin
• Redden

There are also many places with another spelling variant, including:

• Reading, Berkshire, UK
• Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.
• Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.

For more possibilities, see:

• Reading (disambiguation)