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red-to-red

red-to-red adjective: describing the condition in which two sea-going ships travelling in opposite directions pass each other on their port sides, making their red navigation lights face each other.

Adjective

red-to-red (not comparable)

  1. Describing the condition in which two sea-going ships travelling in opposite directions pass each other on their port sides, making their red navigation lights face each other.
  2. Describing the connection between two batteries' positive terminals, for instance when jump-starting a car.

Questions about red-to-red

What does red-to-red mean?
Red-to-red means describing the condition in which two sea-going ships travelling in opposite directions pass each other on their port sides, making their red navigation lights face each other.
What part of speech is red-to-red?
Red-to-red is an adjective.

Words near red-to-red in the dictionary

  1. red-throated thrush
  2. red-throated thrushes
  3. red-throated tit
  4. red-throated tits
  5. red-throats
  6. red-to-red
  7. red-toothed
  8. red-toothed shrew
  9. red-toothed shrews
  10. red-top
  11. red-tops

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