green

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Antonyms 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Translations 1.3.5 References 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Derived terms 1.4.3 Related terms 1.4.4 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Synonyms 1.5.2 Derived terms 1.5.3 Translations 1.6 See also

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[edit] Etymology

From Old English grēne.

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: grēn, IPA: /ɡriːn/, SAMPA: /gri:n/
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  Rhymes: -iːn

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green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)

1. The color the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570-nm.
2. The color produced by mixing yellow and blue pigments.
3. Having green as its color.

   The flag of Libya is completely green.

4. Sickly, unwell.

   Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick?

5. Inexperienced.

   John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.

6. Environmentally friendly.

   Let's buy green copier paper for the office

7. (figuratively) Overcome with envy.

   green with envy

8. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture
9. (food, dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.^[1]
10. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
11. (wine) Of wine, high or too high in acidity.
12. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
13. (Cockney) naïve or unaware of obvious facts.

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• (of bacon: unprocessed): raw, unprocessed, unsmoked
• (of wine: high in acidity): tart

[edit] Antonyms

• (of bacon: unprocessed): processed, smoked, spiced
• (of wine: high in acidity): cloy, sweet

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• Notes:

1. ^ “unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency” Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon

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green (plural greens)

1. 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.

   green colour:

2. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
3. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
4. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
5. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 3 points.
6. (British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
7. (British, slang, uncountable) marijuana.

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• (environmentalist): environmentalist, greenbody greenie (Australian) treehugger
• (green vegetables): veg (informal)
• (putting green): putting green
• (surface on which bowls is played): bowling green

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• greens
• wintergreen

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[edit] Verb

to green (third-person singular simple present greens, present participle greening, simple past and past participle greened)

1. (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
2. (transitive) To add green spaces to (a town).
3. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
4. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.

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• (make (something) green):: engreen

[edit] Derived terms

• greenable
• greening

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[edit] See also

biliverdin chlorophyll paloverde salad days salsa verde secondary colour terre verte

thallium thallus verdant verdigris verdin verditer verdure

verjuice vert vireo virescent virid viridescent Appendix:Colours