green
IPA: grˈin
noun
- 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.
- (politics, sometimes capitalised) Islamist.
- (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.
- (Britain) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
- A green light used as a signal.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- A common English surname from Middle English.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A minor city in Clay County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky.
- A city in Summit County, Ohio, formerly a township.
- A census-designated place in Douglas County, Oregon.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Green Township.
- (politics) A member of a Green Party or green party.
- (theater, informal) Short for green room. [In a television studio, theatre or concert hall, the room where performers await their entrance.]
- (Oxford University, informal, historical) Ellipsis of Green College, Oxford..
verb
- (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
- To become or grow green in colour.
- (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
- (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
- (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
adjective
- Having green as its color.
- (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- (figurative) Inexperienced.
- (figurative) Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
- (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- (figurative, of people) Overcome 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.
- (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- (wine) High or too high in acidity.
- (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
- (academia) Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available for to read for free after an embargo period.
- (politics) Of, or pertaining, to a Green Party or green party.
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Examples of "green" in Sentences
- The belt is in green and the straps are in red.
- The filaments are green and the pollen bright red.
- The blue green waters sparkle in the afternoon sun.
- Note loss of contiguity in the red and green regions.
- The inside of the shell is an iridescent blue and green.
- The author appears comfortable in green and blue flannel.
- The female is white in hue, with a tinge of yellow green.
- The twig and the leaves are shown green and the roses red.
- Magenta is the opposite of green, and yellow the opposite of blue.
- Magenta is the complement of green, and yellow the complement of blue.
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