ORANGES

"ORANGES" is a plural of: orange.

Date "ORANGES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: ORANGES

Incomparability

Phrase: like apples and oranges; no basis for comparison; no standard for comparison.

Crosswords: ORANGES

Of course not, that's like comparing oranges and lemons. (I Dream of Jeannie; writing credit: James B. Allardice)

Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements (Nineteen Eighty-Four; writing credit: Jonathan Gems; George Orwell)

California oranges! Texas catcus! (The Replacements; writing credit: Vince McKewin)

Tintin et les oranges bleues (1964)

Les Oranges de Jaffa (1938)

Wild Oranges (1924)

Oranges and Lemons (1923)

Picking Oranges (1898)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Oranges, Mandarins, Clementines, and Other Citrus Fruit in N. America & Caribbean (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Oranges, Mandarins, Clementines, and Other Citrus Fruit Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Oranges, Mandarins, Clementines, and Other Citrus Fruit Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Oranges, Mandarins, Clementines, and Other Citrus Fruit: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Oranges (reference)

• Oranges on Golden Mountain (reference)

• Poems: The Weight of Oranges, Miner's Pond, Skin Divers (reference)

• The Blood Oranges (reference)

• Weight of Oranges & Miner's Pond (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Prokofiev - The Love for Three Oranges / Nagano, Opera National de Lyon (reference)

• The Blood Oranges (reference)

• Blood Oranges (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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There are 2 grey wooden crates filled with and surrounded by broccoli, peppers, grapefruits and oranges in a tight frame. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A grocery bag spills out junk food (Cheetos, fried pork skins, cookies, cheddar and bacon crackers). There are bananas and oranges hidden in the background. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Supermarket  Grapefruit and oranges in the produce section of the Mapledale Giant in Dale City, VA. . Credit: USDA.

Amber Sweet hybrid oranges. Credit: USDA.

Fifty years ago, frozen orange juice was just a flavorless commercial flop. The only orange juice you could get back then was either squeezed from fresh oranges, mixed from a relatively tasteless concentrate, or poured from a can-and it tasted like a can! P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Tony dropped the bag of oranges and opened his arms to his little dog. Credit: Library of Congress.

President Calvin Coolidge standing with box of oranges and California Representative Phil D. Swing, who presented the oranges, which won the diamond medal at the recent National Orange Show at San Bernardino. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oranges 11, washing oranges in "Stamm washer" in modern citrus fruit packing house, Lamanda Park, Calif. / photographed, copyrighted and sold by Philip Brigandi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Indian River oranges. Polk County, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Loading oranges in Fort Pierce, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

And pies in wire cages and oranges in pyramids of four.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Try tart foods, such as oranges or lemonade, that may have more taste. (references)

Bananas, oranges, potatoes, and peach and apricot nectars are good sources of potassium. (references)

Some high-fiber foods like oranges and broccoli contain material that cannot be digested. (references)

Economic History

Singapore

The U.S. is a major supplier of apples, oranges, pears, summer fruit and raisins. (references)

Sri Lanka

Apples, oranges, dates and grapes were the main varieties of fruit imported in 2000. (references)

China

Imported US varieties that have done well to date include apples, oranges, plums, and table grapes. (references)

Political Economy

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Several agricultural products of interest to U.S. suppliers, such as rice and oranges, are directly hindered by these policies, although Korea purchased U.S. rice for the first time in 2001 since agreeing to open its rice market during the Uruguay Round. (references)

JAPAN

Tariff Reduction: Significant tariff reduction in Japan was achieved through the Uruguay Round Agreement, but agricultural tariffs in Japan remain high, ranging from 10 to 40 percent on a wide variety of items, including beef, oranges, and many processed foods. (references)

Trade

Philippines

Market access for fresh fruit imports for oranges, tangerines and grapefruit from Florida have been achieved in 1999 with the approval of a protocol for these products. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "ORANGES": bitter oranges ♦ like apples and oranges ♦ Seville oranges ♦ sweet oranges. Additional references.

Beginning with "ORANGES": oranges-and-lemons, oranges-hooray.

Danish

søde appelsiner (sweet oranges), communited oranges (communited oranges), bitre oranger (bitter oranges, Seville oranges). (various references)

Dutch

sinaasappelen (orange, sweet oranges), pomeransen (bitter oranges, Seville oranges), bittere oranjeappelen (bitter oranges, Seville oranges). (various references)

French

oranges douces (sweet oranges), oranges amères (bitter oranges, Seville oranges), bigarades (bitter oranges, Seville oranges). (various references)

German

Suessorangen (sweet oranges), Bitterorangen (bitter oranges, Seville oranges). (various references)

Greek 

γλυκά πορτοκάλια (sweet oranges), νεράτζια (bitter oranges, Seville oranges), πικρά πορτοκάλια (bitter oranges, Seville oranges). (various references)

Guarani

narâmi (some oranges). (various references)

Italian

arance dolci (sweet oranges), arance amare (bitter oranges, Seville oranges). (various references)

Pig Latin

orangesay.(various references)

Portuguese

laranja doce (sweet oranges), laranja amarga (bitter oranges, Seville oranges). (various references)

Russian 

название детской песенки и игры (oranges and lemons). (various references)

Spanish

naranjas dulces (sweet oranges), naranjas amargas (bitter oranges, Seville oranges), bigaradas (bitter oranges, Seville oranges). (various references)

Misspellings

"ORANGES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Morangis, Nordangens, Opango, orageuse, Oragna, oramge, orane, oranged, orangist, orangs, oranje, orenge, orenges, organes, oronge, Orontes, orrang. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: onagers.

-1 letter: agones, angers, argons, arseno, genoas, genros, goners, groans, onager, orange, orangs, organs, ranges, reason, sanger, sarong, senora.

-2 letters: aeons, agers, agone, agons, anger, argon, arose, arson, earns, gears, genoa, genro, gnars, goers, goner, gores, gorse, grans, groan, nares, nears, ogres, orang, organ, rages, range, regna, roans, sager, saner, sarge, segno, senor, snare.

+1 letter: acrogens, begroans, estragon, groaners, negators, oreganos, organise, wagoners.

+2 letters: androgens, baronages, crannoges, dangerous, dognapers, dragonets, estragons, frontages, gammoners, geraniols, goosander, grandiose, granulose, hangovers, jargonels, mangroves, negatrons, nongreasy, noseguard, orangiest, organdies, organised, organiser, organises, organizes, outranges, overhangs, parsonage, personage, reasoning, regionals, renegados, renograms, resoaking, sloganeer, tetragons, venograms, waggoners.

+3 letters: abnegators, aborigines, aggression, agrimonies, agronomies, alongshore, anchorages, androgynes, angiosperm, angleworms, aragonites, arrogances, augmentors, boomerangs, coarsening, comanagers, cradlesong, designator, dognappers, downgrades, encourages, entourages, gangrenous, garrisoned, gasconader, gastronome, generators, geomancers, gerfalcons, girandoles, godparents, gonorrheas, goosanders, gormandise, gramineous, granuloses, gravestone, gyroplanes, habergeons, headstrong, hoarsening, ignorances, jargonizes, lemongrass, magnetrons, morganites, neuroglias, noseguards, omniranges, orangeades, orangeries, organelles, organisers, organizers, organzines, originates, orphanages, oversaving, parsonages, patronages, personages, presoaking, rearousing, reasonings, recoinages, renegadoes, resonating, rosemaling, sandgrouse, saprogenic, seignorage, seignorial, sloganeers, spongeware, teratogens, warmongers, xenografts.