red lightn.

Brit.

/ˌrɛd ˈlʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˌrɛd ˈlaɪt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., light n.¹

Etymology: < red adj. + light n.¹

1. A red warning light, esp. (in later use) one instructing traffic to stop. Now frequently figurative: an indication of danger; a warning; a signal to pause or desist in a course of action or thought; esp. in to see the (also a) red light.In earlier use applied to the beacon of a lighthouse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > a warning sign, event, etc.

watchwordc1475

sea-mark1589

buoya1603

warning sign1628

red light1790

tocsin bell1823

tocsin1842

danger-signal1848

yellow light1940

warning bell1951

amber light1956

society > communication > indication > signalling > [noun] > signal > danger-signal

alert1757

red light1790

danger-signal1848

society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system > specific signal

red light1790

danger1841

danger-signal1848

line clear1869

highball signal1894

starter1895

red board1903

stop signal1923

identification light1931

society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > red or green signal

red light1790

stop light1930

green1936

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > traffic lights > specific

red light1790

green arrow1875

amber light1896

yellow1900

yellow light1920

amber1929

stop light1930

stop sign1934

filter1939

red1940

green1962

1790 A. W. Radcliffe Sicilian Romance II. xvi. 209 At length he discerned in the darkness from a far, a red light waving in the wind.

1828 Times 18 Nov. 1/6 A lighthouse has been erected upon Cape Wrath... The red light being somewhat obscured by the coloured shades will not be seen at so great a distance.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. iii. 44 He is one of Mrs. Yorke's warning-examples—one of the blood-red lights she hangs out to scare young ladies from matrimony.]

1860 Janesville (Wisconsin) Democrat 28 Sept. 5/2 The regulations always require a red light to be displayed at the rear of the train.

1862 Railway Traveller's Handy Bk. 99 Danger, to stop, is shown by a red light fixed upon a pole being turned full upon the line... Caution, to go slowly, is shown..by a green light. All right, to go on,..by a white light.

1896 Law Times Rep. 73 615/1 A red light was automatically shown up and down the line.

1907 A. Quiller-Couch Major Vigoureux xxiii. 234 I fancy the man has begun to see the red light.

1946 Sun (Baltimore) 29 Jan. 11/1 What in fact the Associated Press has done is to put up the red light.

1958 Spectator 28 Feb. 251/1 The French Government may see the red light.

1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 52/3 He drove through a red light in Pennsylvania and..was picked up by police.

1984 J. D. Harvey Laughter-silvered Wings 29 A green light meant that it was okay to take off or land. A red light meant the reverse.

2007 Climber Apr. 94/1 A red light should be shown to anyone who attempts the advanced campus exercises..without a decent base level of strength.

2. A brothel (obsolete rare). Also: (in full red-light district) an area of a city or town where prostitution and other commercialized sexual activities are concentrated. Also occasionally as a mass noun.With reference to the red light traditionally used as the sign of a brothel.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > area characterized by brothels or prostitution

stew-side1552

brothelry1577

red light1891

red-light district1891

ho stroll1972

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > area characterized by brothels or prostitution

Yoshiwara1870

red light1891

red-light district1891

ho stroll1972

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel > sign of brothel

red lamp1785

red light1891

red lantern1909

1880 Public Health Rep. & Papers 1879 (Amer. Public Health Assoc.) 5 62 What do we..do to repress prostitution? Nothing... We see the streets..thronged with harlots... Is it not better that the red light and conspicuous number should mark the door of the strange woman,..than that [etc.].]

1891 Sunday Union (Sacramento, Calif.) 10 May 5/4 (heading) The prosecution has been diligently at work..procuring the names of patrons of the ‘Red Light’ for the purpose of proving beyond all peradventure the character and purposes of the house and nuisance complained of.

1894 Jeffersonville (Indiana) News 29 Mar. Police Judge Thompson went slumming in the red-light district, and as a result of his expedition, he read the riot act yesterday from the bench.

1900 Boston Transcript 4 Dec. 14/3 The disorderly houses in the ‘red-light’ district were all closed last night.

1915 Sat. Spectator (Terre Haute, Indiana) 30 Jan. 7/2 The redlighters have pleaded guilty to the same crime. In the crisis the redlight proved what it really was.

1925 H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 276 I was amazed to find that about two thirds of every city consisted of red-light district.

1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 131 Harry was rough, tough and hairy, and he knew where to find..a sly-grog joint or a red light in every capital city.

1981 Observer 2 May 3/4 The trial will seem far removed from the red-light districts and suburbs where Sutcliffe struck.

2007 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 174/3 Kabukicho, ablaze with neon, is Tokyo's red-light district.

3. (The name of) a children's game in which one player turns his or her back, while the others try to sneak up without being seen to move when the player turns to face them; (also) the shout given when the player turns to face the others.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > Grandmother's Footsteps

grandmother's footsteps1937

red light1945

1945 N. L. Boyd Handbk. Recreational Games 115 Red Light, or Cheese It... All face in the same direction and move forward while It counts any number up to ten and adds, ‘cheese it’... Immediately after saying, ‘cheese it’, It turns about and sends back to the starting line any players whom he sees moving even slightly.

1949 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 62 244 The latter is the Russian equivalent of our ‘Red Light’.

1953 P. G. Brewster Amer. Nonsinging Games 35 Red Light (Mississippi). The player who is ‘It’ counts rapidly to ten and then cries, ‘Red Light!’..At the cry of ‘Red Light!’ each must stop and hold the position in which he was when he heard it.

1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games vi. 195 Other names [for ‘Peep behind the Curtain’] include..‘Red Light’ (Liverpool, Blackburn, Spennymoor, Peterborough, Helensburgh, and Edmonton, Alberta), [etc.].

1975 New Yorker 10 Mar. 38/1 Evenings, screen doors bang behind children rushing out to meet each other for hide-and-seek, giant steps, dead dog, red light.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 May ix. 9/2 [She]..argued that games like tag and red light/green light are useful not only in alleviating stress, but helping combat obesity.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adjective] > area characterized by brothels or prostitution

Yoshiwara1870

red light1891

1891 Sunday Union (Sacramento, Calif.) 10 May 5/4 (heading) War declared on the ‘red light’ Bagnio of Georgia Lawrence. The prosecution has been diligently at work..proving beyond all peradventure the character and purposes of the house.

1928 Daily Express 26 Sept. 11/1 It is further asserted that he has elevated the ‘red light’ houses to the level of a business in New York.

1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential i. iv. 40 The few remaining red-light belts are not in class-one cities.

1973 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 June 16/3 At one time there were about 2,000 men in the camp, and except for the red-light girls at the other end of town, only two women.

1991 S. Winchester Pacific (1992) 435 The hordes of drunken sararimen from Ginza and the old red-light region of Shinjuku stagger home.

Derivatives

† red-lighter n. U.S. Obsolete a prostitute.

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1905 Muskogee (Indian Territory) Democrat 6 Feb. 8/5 Blanche Day and Tootsy Alto,..a couple of red lighters, were sentenced to pay $5 and costs each.

1908 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 17 Sept. 4/3 The Red Light district has completely disappeared from Des Moines;..while the red-lighters gleefully make ready for a new and improved district.

1928 Lubbock (Texas) Morning Avalanche 21 Feb. 1/6 Each of the inebriates were fined $15, each of the pugnaciously inclined paid $19,..and a final dollar was contributed by a red-lighter.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	red light
释义	red lightn. Brit. /ˌrɛd ˈlʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌrɛd ˈlaɪt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., light n.¹ Etymology: < red adj. + light n.¹ 1. A red warning light, esp. (in later use) one instructing traffic to stop. Now frequently figurative: an indication of danger; a warning; a signal to pause or desist in a course of action or thought; esp. in to see the (also a) red light.In earlier use applied to the beacon of a lighthouse. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > a warning sign, event, etc. watchwordc1475 sea-mark1589 buoya1603 warning sign1628 red light1790 tocsin bell1823 tocsin1842 danger-signal1848 yellow light1940 warning bell1951 amber light1956 society > communication > indication > signalling > [noun] > signal > danger-signal alert1757 red light1790 danger-signal1848 society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system > specific signal red light1790 danger1841 danger-signal1848 line clear1869 highball signal1894 starter1895 red board1903 stop signal1923 identification light1931 society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > red or green signal red light1790 stop light1930 green1936 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > traffic lights > specific red light1790 green arrow1875 amber light1896 yellow1900 yellow light1920 amber1929 stop light1930 stop sign1934 filter1939 red1940 green1962 1790 A. W. Radcliffe Sicilian Romance II. xvi. 209 At length he discerned in the darkness from a far, a red light waving in the wind. 1828 Times 18 Nov. 1/6 A lighthouse has been erected upon Cape Wrath... The red light being somewhat obscured by the coloured shades will not be seen at so great a distance. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. iii. 44 He is one of Mrs. Yorke's warning-examples—one of the blood-red lights she hangs out to scare young ladies from matrimony.] 1860 Janesville (Wisconsin) Democrat 28 Sept. 5/2 The regulations always require a red light to be displayed at the rear of the train. 1862 Railway Traveller's Handy Bk. 99 Danger, to stop, is shown by a red light fixed upon a pole being turned full upon the line... Caution, to go slowly, is shown..by a green light. All right, to go on,..by a white light. 1896 Law Times Rep. 73 615/1 A red light was automatically shown up and down the line. 1907 A. Quiller-Couch Major Vigoureux xxiii. 234 I fancy the man has begun to see the red light. 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 29 Jan. 11/1 What in fact the Associated Press has done is to put up the red light. 1958 Spectator 28 Feb. 251/1 The French Government may see the red light. 1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 52/3 He drove through a red light in Pennsylvania and..was picked up by police. 1984 J. D. Harvey Laughter-silvered Wings 29 A green light meant that it was okay to take off or land. A red light meant the reverse. 2007 Climber Apr. 94/1 A red light should be shown to anyone who attempts the advanced campus exercises..without a decent base level of strength. 2. A brothel (obsolete rare). Also: (in full red-light district) an area of a city or town where prostitution and other commercialized sexual activities are concentrated. Also occasionally as a mass noun.With reference to the red light traditionally used as the sign of a brothel. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > area characterized by brothels or prostitution stew-side1552 brothelry1577 red light1891 red-light district1891 ho stroll1972 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > area characterized by brothels or prostitution Yoshiwara1870 red light1891 red-light district1891 ho stroll1972 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel > sign of brothel red lamp1785 red light1891 red lantern1909 1880 Public Health Rep. & Papers 1879 (Amer. Public Health Assoc.) 5 62 What do we..do to repress prostitution? Nothing... We see the streets..thronged with harlots... Is it not better that the red light and conspicuous number should mark the door of the strange woman,..than that [etc.].] 1891 Sunday Union (Sacramento, Calif.) 10 May 5/4 (heading) The prosecution has been diligently at work..procuring the names of patrons of the ‘Red Light’ for the purpose of proving beyond all peradventure the character and purposes of the house and nuisance complained of. 1894 Jeffersonville (Indiana) News 29 Mar. Police Judge Thompson went slumming in the red-light district, and as a result of his expedition, he read the riot act yesterday from the bench. 1900 Boston Transcript 4 Dec. 14/3 The disorderly houses in the ‘red-light’ district were all closed last night. 1915 Sat. Spectator (Terre Haute, Indiana) 30 Jan. 7/2 The redlighters have pleaded guilty to the same crime. In the crisis the redlight proved what it really was. 1925 H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 276 I was amazed to find that about two thirds of every city consisted of red-light district. 1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 131 Harry was rough, tough and hairy, and he knew where to find..a sly-grog joint or a red light in every capital city. 1981 Observer 2 May 3/4 The trial will seem far removed from the red-light districts and suburbs where Sutcliffe struck. 2007 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 174/3 Kabukicho, ablaze with neon, is Tokyo's red-light district. 3. (The name of) a children's game in which one player turns his or her back, while the others try to sneak up without being seen to move when the player turns to face them; (also) the shout given when the player turns to face the others. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > Grandmother's Footsteps grandmother's footsteps1937 red light1945 1945 N. L. Boyd Handbk. Recreational Games 115 Red Light, or Cheese It... All face in the same direction and move forward while It counts any number up to ten and adds, ‘cheese it’... Immediately after saying, ‘cheese it’, It turns about and sends back to the starting line any players whom he sees moving even slightly. 1949 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 62 244 The latter is the Russian equivalent of our ‘Red Light’. 1953 P. G. Brewster Amer. Nonsinging Games 35 Red Light (Mississippi). The player who is ‘It’ counts rapidly to ten and then cries, ‘Red Light!’..At the cry of ‘Red Light!’ each must stop and hold the position in which he was when he heard it. 1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games vi. 195 Other names [for ‘Peep behind the Curtain’] include..‘Red Light’ (Liverpool, Blackburn, Spennymoor, Peterborough, Helensburgh, and Edmonton, Alberta), [etc.]. 1975 New Yorker 10 Mar. 38/1 Evenings, screen doors bang behind children rushing out to meet each other for hide-and-seek, giant steps, dead dog, red light. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 May ix. 9/2 [She]..argued that games like tag and red light/green light are useful not only in alleviating stress, but helping combat obesity. Compounds General attributive (in sense 2). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adjective] > area characterized by brothels or prostitution Yoshiwara1870 red light1891 1891 Sunday Union (Sacramento, Calif.) 10 May 5/4 (heading) War declared on the ‘red light’ Bagnio of Georgia Lawrence. The prosecution has been diligently at work..proving beyond all peradventure the character and purposes of the house. 1928 Daily Express 26 Sept. 11/1 It is further asserted that he has elevated the ‘red light’ houses to the level of a business in New York. 1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential i. iv. 40 The few remaining red-light belts are not in class-one cities. 1973 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 June 16/3 At one time there were about 2,000 men in the camp, and except for the red-light girls at the other end of town, only two women. 1991 S. Winchester Pacific (1992) 435 The hordes of drunken sararimen from Ginza and the old red-light region of Shinjuku stagger home. Derivatives † red-lighter n. U.S. Obsolete a prostitute. ΚΠ 1905 Muskogee (Indian Territory) Democrat 6 Feb. 8/5 Blanche Day and Tootsy Alto,..a couple of red lighters, were sentenced to pay $5 and costs each. 1908 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 17 Sept. 4/3 The Red Light district has completely disappeared from Des Moines;..while the red-lighters gleefully make ready for a new and improved district. 1928 Lubbock (Texas) Morning Avalanche 21 Feb. 1/6 Each of the inebriates were fined $15, each of the pugnaciously inclined paid $19,..and a final dollar was contributed by a red-lighter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1790
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