What is "orange"

orange \or"ange\, a. Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon.

c.1300, of the fruit, from Old French orange, orenge (12c., Modern French orange), from Medieval Latin pomum de orenge, from Italian arancia, originally narancia (Venetian naranza), alteration of Arabic naranj, from Persian narang, from Sanskrit naranga-s "orange tree," of uncertain origin. Not used as a color word until 1540s.\n

\nLoss of initial n- probably due to confusion with definite article (as in une narange, una narancia), but perhaps influenced by French or "gold." The name of the town of Orange in France (see Orangemen) perhaps was deformed by the name of the fruit. Orange juice is attested from 1723.\n

\nThe tree's original range probably was northern India. The Persian orange, grown widely in southern Europe after its introduction in Italy 11c., was bitter; sweet oranges were brought to Europe 15c. from India by Portuguese traders and quickly displaced the bitter variety, but only Modern Greek still seems to distinguish the bitter (nerantzi) from the sweet (portokali "Portuguese") orange. Portuguese, Spanish, Arab, and Dutch sailors planted citrus trees along trade routes to prevent scurvy. On his second voyage in 1493, Christopher Columbus brought the seeds of oranges, lemons and citrons to Haiti and the Caribbean. Introduced in Florida (along with lemons) in 1513 by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon. Introduced to Hawaii 1792.

1. Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow. n. 1 An evergreen tree of the genus ''Citrus'' such as ''Citrus sinensis''. 2 The fruit of an orange tree; a citrus fruit with a slightly sour flavour. 3 The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow. 4 Orange juice, or orange coloured and flavoured cordial. v

2. 1 (context transitive English) To color orange. 2 (context intransitive English) To become orange.

adj. similar to the color of a ripe orange [syn: orangish]

1. n. round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees

2. any of a range of colors between red and yellow [syn: orangeness]

3. any citrus tree bearing oranges [syn: orange tree]

4. any pigment producing the orange color

5. a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean [syn: Orange River]

Orange usually refers to:

• Orange (colour), occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum
• Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species Citrus sinensis
• Some other citrus or citrus-like fruit, see List of plants known as orange

Orange may also refer to:

Orange is the colour between red and yellow on the spectrum of light, and in the traditional colour wheel used by painters. Its name is derived from the fruit orange.

In Europe and America, surveys show that orange is the colour most associated with amusement, the unconventional, extroverts, warmth, fire, energy, activity, danger, taste and aroma, the autumn season, and Protestantism, as well as having long been the national colour of the Netherlands and the House of Orange. In Asia it is an important symbolic colour of Buddhism and Hinduism.

The word orange is both a noun and an adjective in the English language. In both cases, it refers primarily to the orange fruit and the colour orange, but has many other derivative meanings.

The word is derived from a Dravidian language, and it passed through numerous other languages including Sanskrit and Old French before reaching the English language. The earliest uses of the word in English refer to the fruit, and the colour was later named after the fruit. Before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the colour was referred to as "yellow-red" (geoluread in Old English) or "red-yellow".

It is claimed that the word orange has no true rhyme. There are, however, several half rhymes or near-rhymes, as well as some proper nouns and compound words or phrases that rhyme with it. This lack of rhymes has inspired many humorous poems and songs.

The Orange brand in India, through a complicated set of mergers and divisions, was acquired and eventually retained by Orange S.A.; and currently operates as Orange Business Services India (OBS India).

On 14 February 2000, Hutchison Max – an Indian telecom joint venture majority owned by Hong Kong based Hutchison Whampoa introduced the brand in the country, through the rebranding of its existing Mumbai telecom circle Cell phone service – 'Max Touch', to 'Orange'. Shortly, issues arose concerning the ownership of the 'Orange' brand in India, when France Telecom in May 2000 purchased the worldwide rights for the brand. Hutchison Essar (earlier Hutchinson Max) ended using the brand in Jan 2006.

Orange returned to the country in July 2007, as Orange Business Services India, when France Telecom acquired the enterprise network services and managed services business of GTL Ltd. Since then, OBS India has grown to become one of the country's major data connectivity solutions provider.

As of June 2012, it has a network with 13 point of presence (PoP) in the country and has offices in eight locations with over 2000 employees, offering business services to local as well as global enterprises in cloud computing, unified communications and collaboration. India houses one of the OBS's four major global service centres in Gurgaon.

OBS India traces its presence in India to 1969, when SITA, (Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques), was created to meet the need of the airline industry.

Orange is a free software machine learning and data mining software (written in Python). It has a visual programming front-end for explorative data analysis and visualization, and can also be used as a Python library. The program is maintained and developed by the Bioinformatics Laboratory of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science at University of Ljubljana.

Orange Belgium (known as Orange) is the second largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications operators. It competes with Proximus and Base.

Created by France Télécom in 1996 under the name of Mobistar, it became rebranded as Orange in May 2016 (following its parent company's own change of name in 2013).

Album recorded by female Japanese pop artist Watanabe Misato. It was released on August 6, 2003 by Sony Music Entertainment.

Orange is Al Stewart's fourth studio album originally released in 1972, and re-released in 1996 and 2007 on CD. Generally regarded as a 'transitional album' between the confessional folk sounds of his first three albums, and the historically themed albums of his more successful mid-1970s period. The album includes Rick Wakeman on piano.

"Orange" is a song performed by Irish comedian David O'Doherty. It was released on CD in February 2007 as part of his attempts to have a "Minor" hit single, preferably at #27 in the charts. The exploits of O'Doherty trying to have this "hit" was featured in an episode of his TV series, The Modest Adventures of David O'Doherty.

The song was written and recorded by David O'Doherty, and was recorded onto standard CD-R discs using his own laptop to do so. His phone number was written on the back of the single's (also homemade) artwork so that if the people who bought it couldn't get it to play, they could contact him and he would play them the song over the phone.

In heraldry, orange is a rarely used tincture except in South Africa and in the heraldry of the United States Army. A more accurate picture of its use is at tenné.

Orange is a surname and a given name.

Orange is a 2012 Malayalam film directed by Biju Varkey who had earlier directed films like Devadasi, Chandranilekkulla Vazhi and Phantom.

Orange is the fourth studio album by the German progressive metal band, Dark Suns. This album largely abandons the band's previous style in order to create a more 70's progressive rock vibe, similar to Opeth's Heritage, which was released in the same year as Orange.

Orange is a 1994 studio album by the American punk blues band The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. The track "Flavor" features a guest appearance by Beck. The Village Voice ranked the album #16 of the top albums of 1994. The track "Bellbottoms" was included in The Pitchfork 500.

In 2005 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series. The indie rock band BOAT parodied the album's cover art, among several others, on its 2011 release Dress Like Your Idols.

The orange (specifically, the sweet orange) is the fruit of the citrus species Citrus × sinensis in the family Rutaceae.

The fruit of the Citrus × sinensis is considered a sweet orange, whereas the fruit of the Citrus × aurantium is considered a bitter orange. The sweet orange reproduces asexually ( apomixis through nucellar embryony); varieties of sweet orange arise through mutations.

The orange is a hybrid, between pomelo (Citrus maxima) and mandarin (Citrus reticulata). It has genes that are ~25% pomelo and ~75% mandarin; however, it is not a simple backcrossed BC1 hybrid, but hybridized over multiple generations. The chloroplast genes, and therefore the maternal line, seem to be pomelo. The sweet orange has had its full genome sequenced. Earlier estimates of the percentage of pomelo genes varying from ~50% to 6% have been reported.

Sweet oranges were mentioned in Chinese literature in 314 BC. , orange trees were found to be the most cultivated fruit tree in the world. Orange trees are widely grown in tropical and subtropical climates for their sweet fruit. The fruit of the orange tree can be eaten fresh, or processed for its juice or fragrant peel. , sweet oranges accounted for approximately 70% of citrus production.

In 2013, 71.4 million metric tons of oranges were grown worldwide, production being highest in Brazil and the U.S. states of Florida and California.

Orange UK is a mobile network operator and a former internet service provider in the United Kingdom, launched in 1993. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was purchased by France Télécom (now Orange S.A.) in 2000, which then adopted the Orange brand for all its other mobile communications activities. Orange UK has since merged with Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile UK to form a joint venture, EE. EE continued to operate the Orange brand until February 2015, when new connections and upgrades on Orange tariffs were withdrawn. Existing Orange customers who wish to upgrade must switch to an EE tariff when their contract term ends, or can choose to remain on their existing Orange tariff without renewing.

Orange is a New Jersey Transit station in Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, along the Morris & Essex Lines (formerly Erie Lackawanna Railway). Service is available via the Kearny Connection to Secaucus Junction and Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan and to Hoboken Terminal. Passengers can transfer at Newark Broad Street or Summit to reach the other destination if necessary.

The brick station and nearby freight terminal was built in 1918. The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.

Orange is a 2010 Telugu romantic dramedy film directed by Bhaskar in his third venture after Bommarillu and Parugu. The film features Ram Charan and Genelia D'Souza with Shazahn Padamsee playing a pivotal role. The film, whose music was composed by Harris Jayaraj, began the first schedule in February 2010, and was released on 26 November 2010. The film was dubbed in Malayalam as Hai Ram Charan and Tamil as Ram Charan.Orange Satellite rights were sold for .

Orange is a database management and monitoring tool manufactured by WareValley. Orange was first released in December 2001.

Orange is a 2015 Japanese teen fantasy drama film based on the manga series of the same name by Ichigo Takano. It was released on December 12, 2015.

Orange is an American pop punk/ punk band from Los Angeles, California.

The band were first signed to Hellcat/Epitaph Records by Tim Armstrong of Rancid when they were only 16 years old and since then have toured the world with many bands such as Misfits, The Adicts, UK Subs, Rancid, Reel Big Fish, Bowling For Soup and Zebrahead and have been on multiple TV shows including The O.C., The Hills and their song "Revolution" is the theme song to Cartoon Network's show Generator Rex. They have released three albums, Welcome to the World of Orange, Escape from LA, and Phoenix and an E.P, Dead Sexy.

Orange is the soundtrack to the 2010 Telugu romantic film of the same name, directed by Bhaskar and starring Ram Charan, Genelia D'Souza and Shazahn Padamsee. The soundtrack album includes six tracks composed by Harris Jayaraj marking his first collaboration with Bhaskar and Ram Charan. The soundtrack album was released on October 26, 2010. The release coincided with a promotional event held at Shilpakala Vedika in Hyderabad, India. It was released and marketed by Aditya Music. The audio of its Tamil dubbed Version Ram Charan was launched at 4 Frames Theater in Chennai. The album was positively received and was nominated at major award ceremonies.

Orange is a slice of life romance shōjo/ seinen manga series written and illustrated by Ichigo Takano. It was first serialized in 2012 in Bessatsu Margaret manga magazine and later in Monthly Action. It has been compiled into 5 volumes as of May 2016. Its chapters are published online in English by Crunchyroll and in print by Seven Seas Entertainment. It is also published in France by Akata and in Spain by Ediciones Tomodomo. A live action film adaptation of the same name was released on December 12, 2015. An anime television adaptation started to air in July 2016. A spin-off to the manga began serialization on March 25, 2016, in the Monthly Action magazine published by Futabasha.