Difference between brown and clearing
Definitions
verb
- make brown in color
- fry in a pan until it changes color
adjective
- (of skin) deeply suntanned
- of a color similar to that of wood or earth
noun
- an orange of low brightness and saturation
Examples
The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
Obama "cherishes" a trinket and a book given to him by Gordon Brown, and he worships them like tiny gods by keeping them in a little pagan altar he set up in the Oval Office.
The Chief Inspector has suggested a complete overhaul of the good book, reducing it to a pacier 250 pages, a greater focus on “Floods and brimstone and other cool stuff” and a possible rewrite by Dan Brown to “Sex the whole thing up a bit.”
Definitions
noun
- a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
- the act of removing solid particles from a liquid
- the act of freeing from suspicion
Examples
A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view.
Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
So it was with a flurry of paper gathering, desk clearing and eventually handshaking, I strolled out into the back lane for the last time.
