What's the difference between colour and verdant?

Colour


Definition:

  • (n.) See Color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
  • (2) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (3) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (4) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (5) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
  • (6) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (7) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (8) Bound biocytinyl-E2 is detected after binding of streptavidin-peroxidase and colour production by the enzyme.
  • (9) Significant biases in the distribution of cases of babesiosis were found with regard to season (P < 0,05), sex (P < 0,001) and coat colour (P < 0.01).
  • (10) In order to map the mental state in the early puerperium the authors gave to a group of 100 women for five days after delivery Lüscher's colour test.
  • (11) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
  • (12) Malvidin chloride (MC) a colouring agent from flowers of Malvaviscus conzattii Greenum was studied for male anti-fertility effects in adult langur monkeys (Presbytis entellus entellus Dufresne).
  • (13) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.
  • (14) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (15) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
  • (16) Variation of scrotal colour was not due to changes in melanocyte number or dispersion of melanosomes.
  • (17) Most striking finding was his difficulty in identifying common objects and colours along with a profound alexia.
  • (18) In three the diagnosis was only suspected when the colour Doppler study showed dilated intraseptal and epicardial vessels and an abnormal flow signal into the pulmonary artery in diastole; this latter signal localised the exact site of communication, which was not apparent on angiocardiography.
  • (19) The verbal coding and recognition of colours of a group of chronic schizophrenics and their normal controls were investigated.
  • (20) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.

Verdant


Definition:

  • (a.) Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.
  • (a.) Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (2) After all, on old MacDonald’s bucolic farm the cows grazed contentedly on verdant fields.
  • (3) The abandonment of industry in most innercities left large areas free for grass, weeds and all manner of more exotic things to grow on them, and in recent years, those spaces have been reclaimed rather than simply built over; both the London Olympic Park and, much more impressively, the New York High Line are the transformation and decontamination of these verdant wastes, turning them into verdant parks.
  • (4) We are playing college football here and grounds are verdant!
  • (5) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
  • (6) An 18-hole golf course is being hacked from the verdant jungle.
  • (7) Doubles from £56, B&B Hotel Solar das Águas Cantantes, Ubatuba, São Paulo Set in verdant grounds on a winding stretch of coast and backed by postcard-perfect peaks, this colonial affair offers 20 austere rooms wrapped around a leafy courtyard.
  • (8) Open late May to late September Oh Be Joyful Campground, Crested Butte Photograph: Alamy At the end of a hanging valley, Crested Butte is the quintessential Colorado mountain town, with verdant alpine meadows stretching impossibly upward to serrated peaks all around.
  • (9) The snow lay thick and the shack was deserted when Mack arrived, but he blinked and suddenly it was spring and the forest was covered with verdant greens.
  • (10) It was a place of economic prowess and leisure and hi-tech industry, where happy residents strolled through verdant parks or raced across the city’s lake in speedboats.
  • (11) Despite Australians’ sentimental and cultural attachment to those vast expanses of uninhabited outback, stock runs, russet fields and verdant crop lines that we romantically generalise as “the bush”, Australians have always predominantly been most comfortable dwelling and working on the coastal, urban plains where most big cities and centres are.
  • (12) Unlike Kenya's Rift valley, the land here is lush and verdant.
  • (13) A sample choripán cubano of coarse chorizo grilled with tangy, verdant chimichurri , offered several layers of texture and flavour.
  • (14) Stand in the upper Yubari valley and gaze up at the verdant hillsides now and it is hard to imagine they were once covered with sooty tenements.
  • (15) Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the term is being used to describe a vast range of jobs, some of which could probably be better described as brackish-brown than verdant green.
  • (16) At the Saint Symphorien War Cemetery , 2km east of Mons, German and British soldiers are buried together in a beautiful verdant setting.
  • (17) But like many whose physical geography is largely a collection of glib, lazy and largely wrong assumptions, I can't help noticing that said pitch would seem to be the only thing in the Amazon rainforest that isn't lush and verdant.
  • (18) In the writer's comfortable office with its massive telly, clutter of family life and view of verdant garden, she tells me that when her youngest son was tiny – she has two, both now in their mid-teens – someone chased and tried to attack him in the park.
  • (19) So why not concrete over one of the capital’s verdant bits of greenery (Hyde Park would do, but whichever you like – just ignore the carping of locals like me), cover it in new homes, and use the money made to give Manchester the lung it so desperately needs?
  • (20) • Reliant on nature pictures Most pernicious, perhaps, are attempts to green products by association, such as cars driving through verdant meadows.