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redding

vb. (present participle of redd English)

WordNet
red
  1. adj. having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]

  2. characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: crimson, violent]

  3. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" [syn: crimson, reddened, red-faced, flushed]

  4. red with or characterized by blood; "waving our red weapons o'er our heads"- Shakespeare; "The Red Badge of Courage"; "the red rules of tooth and claw"- P.B.Sears

  5. [also: redding, redded, reddest, redder]

red
  1. n. the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood [syn: redness]

  2. a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana [syn: Red River]

  3. emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries [syn: Bolshevik, Marxist, pinko, bolshie]

  4. the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year" [syn: loss, red ink] [ant: gain]

  5. [also: redding, redded, reddest, redder]

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Gazetteer
Redding, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 80865
Housing Units (2000): 33802
Land area (2000): 58.438323 sq. miles (151.354556 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.195725 sq. miles (3.096914 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 59.634048 sq. miles (154.451470 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59920
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 40.576606 N, 122.370325 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 96001 96002 96003
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Redding, CA
Redding
Redding, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 78
Housing Units (2000): 41
Land area (2000): 1.004626 sq. miles (2.601970 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.004626 sq. miles (2.601970 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66000
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 40.605076 N, 94.388469 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50860
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Redding, IA
Redding
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Redding

Redding may refer to:

Redding (band)

Redding is an American indie rock band from Belleville, Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri. Redding take their name from the character Ellis Redding (played by Morgan Freeman) in the film The Shawshank Redemption.

The band consists of:

Redding (Metro-North station)

The Redding Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of Redding, Connecticut via the Danbury Branch of the New Haven Line. The station is called Redding in the Metro-North timetable, but the station is signed as West Redding, which is the name of the neighborhood within the town of Redding that the station is in.

The station is 58.7 miles to Grand Central and the average travel time from there to Grand Central Terminal is 1 hour, 49 minutes though this varies regardless of through trains or transfers at Stamford or South Norwalk.

The station has 82 parking spaces, all owned by the state.

Redding (surname)

Redding is an English surname, derived from the town of Reading. At the time the 1881 British Census was enumerated, the frequency of the surname Redding was highest in Buckinghamshire (12.8 times the national average), followed by Huntingdonshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Cambridgeshire, Warwickshire, Anglesey, Bedfordshire and Rutland.

Usage examples of "redding".

As I latched the gate, it occurred to me that I would just step down to the shed in the garden which young Lawrence Redding was using as a studio, and see for myself how Griselda's portrait was progressing.

And she was desperately, wildly, madly in love with Lawrence Redding, a man several years younger than herself.

I had entirely forgotten that we had asked Lawrence Redding to dinner that night.

I had rather doubted whether Lawrence Redding would put in an appearance.

She and Haydock left the room together and Lawrence Redding with them.

Lawrence Redding gave evidence of finding the body, and identified the pistol as belonging to him.

I said, and wishing to escape from the monologue I broke away with the excuse that I had something to say to Lawrence Redding whom I saw approaching us on the other side of the road.

When - when Lawrence Redding came here, I let you think that I had only known him slightly before.

At five-thirty, Lawrence Redding telephoned from the North Lodge to the vicar, adopting a woman's voice (you remember what a good amateur actor he was).

But I think in this case young Redding is too downy a bird to be caught that way.

Lawrence Redding was not an innocent man, and the hint of a witness of the change of capsule did indeed cause him to do "something foolish.

The trial of Lawrence Redding and Anne Protheroe is a matter of public knowledge.

Some wrestled Redding to the ground, some pushed back the torrent of curious and desperate petitioners.

They were taking Redding out the other door, shaking him to make him walk, for he was beginning to recover, bleeding from the temple in a red wash which obscured his face.

A short blade flashed into his hand, not for security… Redding turned from James—for him.