green
see also: Green
Pronunciation Adjective
Green
Proper noun Adjective
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see also: Green
Pronunciation Adjective
green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)
- Having green as its color.
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- (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick?
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 1, scene vii]:
- to look so green and pale
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- (figurative, of people) Inexperienced.
- John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
- 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. [...] In Four Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685 ↗: - {quote-meta/quote
- (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
- He was green with envy.
- (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
- (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
- (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
- We say the meat is green when half roasted.
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- That timber is still too green to be used.
- (wine) High or too high in acidity.
- Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
- a green manhood; a green wound
- as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against […] the greenest usurpation
- (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
- the green pound; the green lira
- (having green as its color) verdant, vert
- (of bacon: unprocessed) raw, unprocessed, unsmoked
- (of wine: high in acidity) tart
- See also Thesaurus:new
- See also Thesaurus:inexperienced
- See also Thesaurus:gullible
- (having green as its colour) nongreen, ungreen
- (having green as its colour charge) antigreen
- (of bacon: unprocessed) processed, smoked, spiced
- (of wine: high in acidity) cloy, sweet
- (of certain fruits: ready to be eaten) ripe
green (plural greens)
- The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
- (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- (British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- 1634, John Milton, “Arcades”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […] , London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moſely, […], published 1645, OCLC 606951673 ↗:
- o'er the smooth enamelled green
- (mostly, in plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- 1715, Alexander Pope, The Temple of Fame:
- In that soft season when descending show'rs / Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
- Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
- (British, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (environmentalist) environmentalist, greenie (Australian), tree hugger, treehugger
- (green vegetables) veg (informal)
- (putting green) putting green
- (surface on which bowls is played) bowling green
green (greens, present participle greening; past and past participle greened)
- (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
- Great spring before greened all the year.
- To become or grow green in colour.
- by greening slope and singing flood
- (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
- 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)
- The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.
- 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)
- (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
- (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
- (make (something) green) engreen
Green
Proper noun Adjective
green (not comparable)
- (politics) Of, or pertaining, to a Green Party or green party.
green (plural greens)
- (politics) A member of a Green Party or green party.
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