BEIGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beige mean? 

• BEIGE (noun)
  The noun BEIGE has 1 sense:

1. a very light brown

  Familiarity information: BEIGE used as a noun is very rare.

• BEIGE (adjective)
  The adjective BEIGE has 1 sense:

1. of a light greyish-brown color

  Familiarity information: BEIGE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEIGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very light brown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

beige; ecru

Hypernyms ("beige" is a kind of...):

light brown (a brown that is light but unsaturated)

Derivation:

beige (of a light greyish-brown color)

• BEIGE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a light greyish-brown color

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

beige (a very light brown)

 Context examples 

Novel genes whose expression marked human beige cells included KCNK3 and MTUS1.

(Insights into Energy-Burning Fat Cells, NIH)

It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On one hand, it browns the white subcutaneous fat and turns it into beige fat, thus creating more tissue that turns fat into energy rather than storing it.

(Study confirms melatonin helps burn calories and curbs weight gain, University of Granada)

Analysis of these 2 genes in mice revealed that they were required for beige fat cells to become brown fat cells and to burn energy to create heat.

(Insights into Energy-Burning Fat Cells, NIH)

The group plans to use the beige fat cells to screen different molecules to determine how to stimulate the heat-producing activity of human brown fat.

(Insights into Energy-Burning Fat Cells, NIH)

The scientists surveyed genes that were active in the human fat cells and found that they were similar to those active in mouse beige fat cells, but not in mouse brown fat cells.

(Insights into Energy-Burning Fat Cells, NIH)

Researchers have identified a specific type of fat cell, known as beige, that has some characteristics of brown fat.

(Insights into Energy-Burning Fat Cells, NIH)

Beige fat cells appear in white fat in response to specific triggers such as cold.

(Insights into Energy-Burning Fat Cells, NIH)

Since beige and brown fat cells are able to burn calories, they could potentially serve as targets for therapies to try to reduce obesity and its associated disorders.

(Insights into Energy-Burning Fat Cells, NIH)

A team of researchers led by Dr. Shingo Kajimura at the University of California, San Francisco, set out to determine the nature of brown and beige fat from adult humans, and to better characterize it at a cellular level.

(Insights into Energy-Burning Fat Cells, NIH)