Red (an orchestra) definition

(1) 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

(2) 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

(3) Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

(4) (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"

(5) Red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

(6) A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

(7) Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

(8) 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"