What is "tangerine"

Mandarin \Man`da*rin"\, n. [Pg. mandarim, from Malay mantr[=i] minister of state, prop. a Hind. word, fr. Skr. mantrin a counselor, manira a counsel, man to think.]

1. A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

2. Hence: A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege.

3. Hence: A member of an influential, powerful or elite group, espcially within artistic or intellectual circles; -- used especially of elder members who are traditionalist or conservative about their specialties.

   5. The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire.

   6. Any of several closely related dialects of the Chinese language spoken by a mojority of the population of China, the standard variety of which is spoken in the region around Beijing.

   7. (Bot.) A small flattish reddish-orange loose-skinned orange, with an easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species ( Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called also mandarin orange and tangerine.

   Mandarin language, the spoken or colloquial language of educated people in China.

   Mandarin yellow (Chem.), an artificial aniline dyestuff used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex derivative of quinoline.

colorful \colorful\ adj.

1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.

   Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled]

   Syn: colourful.

2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque]

3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.

   Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]

   Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).

1842, from tangerine orange (1820) "an orange from Tangier," seaport in northern Morocco, from which it was imported to Britain originally. As an adjective meaning "from Tangier," attested from 1710, probably from Spanish tangerino. As a color name, attested from 1899.

a. Of a deep yellowish-orange colour. n. 1 Any of several varieties of mandarin oranges. 2 A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit. 3 A tree that produces tangerines.

1. adj. of a strong reddish orange color

2. n. a variety of mandarin orange [syn: tangerine tree]

3. any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa

4. a reddish to vivid orange color

The tangerine (Citrus tangerina) is an orange-colored citrus fruit that is closely related to, or possibly a type of, mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata).

The name was first used for fruit coming from Tangier, Morocco, described as a mandarin variety. Under the Tanaka classification system, Citrus tangerina is considered a separate species. Under the Swingle system, tangerines are considered to be a group of mandarin ( C. reticulata) varieties. While tangerines genetically resemble mandarins, the genetics are still not thoroughly studied. The term is currently applied to any reddish-orange mandarin (and, in some jurisdictions, mandarin-like hybrids, including some tangors), but the term "tangerine" may yet acquire a definite genetic meaning.

Tangerines are smaller and less rounded than common oranges. The taste is considered less sour, as well as sweeter and stronger, than that of an orange. A ripe tangerine is firm to slightly soft, heavy for its size, and pebbly-skinned with no deep grooves, as well as orange in color. The peel is very thin, with very little bitter white mesocarp, which makes them usually easier to peel and to split into segments. All of these traits are shared by mandarins generally.

Peak tangerine season lasts from autumn to spring. Tangerines are most commonly peeled and eaten out of hand. The fresh fruit is also used in salads, desserts and main dishes. The peel is used fresh or dried as a spice or zest for baking and drinks, and eaten coated in chocolate. Fresh tangerine juice and frozen juice concentrate are commonly available in the United States. The number of seeds in each segment (carpel) varies greatly.

Tangerine is an orange color hue used to give the impression of the tangerine fruit. Just as there is a variety of shades of tangerine fruit, there is a variety of color mixes employed to give the impression. Some tangerine hues may more resemble a tangelo fruit, while tangerine-yellow appears close to the color of school bus yellow, although tangerines of that color do not exist in nature.

A tangerine is a red or orange-colored citrus fruit.

Tangerine may also refer to:

"Tangerine" is a popular song. The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1941.

It was introduced in the 1942 movie, The Fleet's In, produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Schertzinger, and starring Dorothy Lamour, William Holden, Eddie Bracken, singer Cass Daley, and Betty Hutton in her feature film debut.

Tangerine is a submarine telecommunications cable system segment crossing the English Channel linking the United Kingdom and Belgium.

It has landing points in:

1. Dumpton Gap, Broadstairs, Kent, United Kingdom
2. Mariakerke near Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium

The cable contains four fibre bundles, each of 48 fibres, and a total cable length of 121 km.

Category:Submarine communications cables in the English Channel Category:Belgium–United Kingdom relations

"Tangerine" is a song by British rock band Feeder, released as the band's second single, and the first that was taken from the Polythene album. The single managed to gain word-of-mouth success and made #60 on the UK top 75- their first of 25 hit singles to date.

The track today since 2001 has been given a big dislike by frontman Grant Nicholas. Although he was quoted as saying during their May 2008 tour, "we will have to learn it first" when asked to play the song, hinting a return to the live performance of the song in the future. This soon indeed happened when the band played a series of gigs in early 2010 under their Renegades side-project name, before being retired for good after their April 2010 gig at the Camden Electric Ballroom. It featured on the original Gran Turismo game as an instrumental. Grant once said that the song is about the struggles the band experienced while trying to get a record contract.

Tangerine is a cross-platform music server for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X. Tangerine uses the Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) protocol to allow the user to listen to music over a network using a client such as Rhythmbox, Banshee, or iTunes.

Tangerine uses SQLite as database.

Tangerine is a young adult novel by Edward Bloor, published in 1997 by Harcourt.

Tangerine is the third album by American hard rock band Vixen. It was recorded without former members Jan Kuehnemund and Share Pedersen. The line-up for this album was Janet Gardner, Roxy Petrucci, Gina Stile, and additional bass player Mike Pisculli. Tangerine has a different sound from the music of the previous albums of the band, more similar to grunge than glam metal.

Tangerine is the fourth full-length album by singer/ songwriter David Mead, released on the Tallulah label in 2006.

"Tangerine" is a folk-rock song recorded by English rock band Led Zeppelin and released on their 1970 album Led Zeppelin III. Led Zeppelin biographer Ritchie Yorke notes, "'Tangerine' had been written by [Jimmy Page] years earlier and the Yardbirds had attempted to record it on at least one occasion".

The song is based on a strummed twelve-string acoustic guitar rhythm with pedal steel guitar fills that give it a country rock sound, reminiscent of pieces by Neil Young around the time. "Tangerine" has been performed in concert by Led Zeppelin at different points in their career and has been recorded by other musicians.

Tangerine is a fictional character appearing in Marvel Comics. She appears in two separate future timelines, and in the present day as a member of MI-13.

Tangerine is an album by saxophonist Dexter Gordon which was recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label.

Tangerine is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Sean S. Baker and written by Baker and Chris Bergoch, starring Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, and James Ransone. The story follows a transgender sex worker who discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been cheating on her. The film was shot with three iPhone 5s smartphones.

Tangerine premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015. It had a limited release on July 10, 2015 through Magnolia Pictures. It received positive reviews.

Tangerine is a musical with music by Monte Carlo and Alma M. Sanders, lyrics by Howard Johnston, about three men jailed for not paying alimony, written by Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton.

The piece premiered on Broadway at the Casino Theatre in 1921, running for 361 performances, one of two hits from the season (the other being Shuffle Along).

"Tangerine" is a song by American alternative metal band Life of Agony. The song was released as the third and final single from the band's third studio album Soul Searching Sun.