Green | |
1. adj. (politics) Of, or pertaining, to a Green Party or green party. | |
2. adj. Having green as its color. | |
The former flag of Libya is fully green. | |
3. adj. (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell. | |
Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick? | |
4. adj. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. | |
5. adj. (figurative, of people) Inexperienced. | |
John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week. | |
6. adj. (figurative, of people) Naïve or unaware of obvious facts. | |
7. adj. (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy. | |
He was green with envy. | |
8. adj. (figurative) Environmentally friendly. | |
9. adj. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture. | |
10. adj. (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” | |
11. adj. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw. | |
12. adj. 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. | |
13. adj. (wine) High or too high in acidity. | |
14. adj. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent. | |
a green manhood; a green wound | |
15. adj. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation. | |
16. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green. | |
17. subst. 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 | |
(color panel, 008000) | |
18. subst. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist. | |
19. subst. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole. | |
20. subst. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played. | |
21. subst. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points. | |
22. subst. (British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement. | |
23. subst. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage. | |
24. subst. (mostly, in plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths. | |
25. subst. Any substance or pigment of a green colour. | |
26. subst. (UK, slang) marijuana. | |
27. subst. (US, slang) Money. | |
28. subst. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks. | |
29. v. To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. | |
30. v. To become or grow green in colour. | |
31. v. To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.). | |
32. v. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware. | |
33. v. To make (something) environmentally friendly. | |