gold
see also: Gold
Pronunciation
Gold
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Gold
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ɡəʊld/, [ɡɔʊ(ɫ)d], [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
- (America) enPR: gōld, IPA: /ɡoʊld/
- (New Zealand) IPA: /ɡaʉld/, [ɡɒʊ(ɫ)d]
- (obsolete) IPA: /ɡuːld/
From Middle English gold, from Old English gold, from Proto-West Germanic *golþ, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃tóm, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-.
Noungold
(uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au. (countable or uncountable) A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so. - The pirates were searching for gold.
(uncountable) A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold. (countable) The bullseye of an archery target. - Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.
(countable) A gold medal. - France has won three golds and five silvers.
(figuratively) Anything or anyone that is very valuable. - Synonyms: good as gold
- That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!
(slang, in the plural) A grill jewellery worn on front teeth made of gold.
- aurum
- E175 when used as a food colouring
gold (not comparable)
- Made of gold.
- Synonyms: golden
- a gold chain
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
- Having gold of gold.
- Synonyms: golden
- gold sticker
- gold socks
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:
- Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
- (of commercial services) Premium, superior.
- Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.
- Coordinate term: platinum
- (academia) Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is immediately available for to read for free with no embargo period.
- Coordinate term: green
- 2013 October 21, Peter Suber, “Open access: six myths to put to rest”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[https://web.archive.org/web/20230603054429/https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN ↗, →OCLC ↗, archived from the original ↗ on 2023-06-03:
- Scholars who make their work green open access rather than gold never pay a fee to do so. Even when they choose the gold route, only 33% of peer-reviewed open access journals charge author-side fees.
- French: d’or, doré
- German: golden, gülden (archaic)
- Italian: di oro, d'oro, aureo, dorato
- Portuguese: de ouro, áureo, áurea
- Russian: золото́й
- Spanish: dorado, de oro, áureo, áurico, aurífero, aurígero
- French: doré
- German: golden, gülden (archaic), goldfarben, goldfarbig
- Italian: dorato aureo
- Portuguese: dourado, dourada
- Russian: золото́й
- Spanish: dorado, áureo
gold (golds, present participle golding; simple past and past participle golded)
- To appear or cause to appear golden.
- Hyponym: gild
From gold master, a copy of the code certified as being ready for release.
Adjectivegold (not comparable)
- (programming, of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
gold (not comparable)
- of or referring to a gold version of something
Gold
Pronunciation Proper noun
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