green
- Proper noun. (surname, common English) .
- Adjective. Having green as its color.
- Adjective. Sickly, unwell.
- Adjective. Inexperienced.
- Adjective. Environmentally friendly.
- Adjective. (figuratively) Overcome with envy.
- Adjective. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- Adjective. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.“unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency” [http://www.deliaonline.com/ingredients/bacon-including-gammon,17,IN.html Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon].
- Adjective. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- Adjective. (context, wine) Of wine, high or too high in acidity.
- Adjective. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- Adjective. Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.
- 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.
- Noun. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- Noun. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- Noun. (context, bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- Noun. (context, snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 3 points.
- Noun. (British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- Noun. (British, slang) marijuana.
- Noun. (US, uncountable) Money.
- Verb. (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
- Verb. (transitive) To add green spaces to (a town).
- Verb. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
- Verb. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.