(superl.) Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
(superl.) Having a sickly color; wan.
(superl.) Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.
(superl.) Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
(superl.) Not roasted; half raw.
(superl.) Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
(superl.) Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.
(n.) The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
(n.) A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.
(n.) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
(n.) Any substance or pigment of a green color.
(v. t.) To make green.
(v. i.) To become or grow green.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
(2) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
(3) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
(4) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(5) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(6) Since 1887, winter green is claimed to have caused dermatitis and to have been responsible for "idiosyncrasy".
(7) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(8) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
(9) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(10) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
(11) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
(12) "She was a beautiful woman, she had beautiful, deep green eyes.
(13) In Humbo in Ethiopia , FMNR has re-greened 2,800 hectares: springs, dry for 30 years, are flowing again.
(14) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
(15) "We have concerns that a potential buyer looking at a property may not value the improvements carried out under Green Deal and may not want to pay for them," a mortgage industry source told the Observer .
(16) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(17) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
(18) The green fund contributions already announced (which include a $3bn pledge by the US and a $1.5bn pledge by Japan revealed during the G20 summit) “show very clearly that if we want the emerging countries and the more fragile countries to participate in this global growth, we have to ... support them,” Hollande said.
(19) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(20) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
Greenie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Arsenal's Emirates Stadium also has excellent eco credentials and the fact that an estimated 70% of Gunners' supporters use public transport to get to games gives the club further brownie (or should that be greenie) points.
(2) But rather than admit his industry policy and fiscal policy has helped cruel economic growth the prime minister is pretending that rising unemployment is all the fault of the greenies and the courts.
(3) This is an issue that falls uneasily between his band of greenies, whose main job is to look after the countryside, and the techies at the business department whose job, under Lord Mandelson, is to drive forward British business.
(4) The real injustice is the terrible service they get for their cash; the fact that people who can't afford the train or own a car don't have a public transport option, are physically excluded from travel – and for me, greenie as I am, that the most sustainable form of transport is the most expensive, the most inaccessible and the one that our transport secretary is choosing to neglect.
(5) Well, I'm back with an extremely Guardian Bioware paper cup of volcanically hot, greeny-grey liquid that's passing for tea in our King's Place HQ these days.
(6) For a wider range, check out the online gardening site Crocus.co.uk , or real greenies might enjoy the range of ex-industrial food barrels at the Centre for Alternative Technology (0845 330 4592, cat.org.uk).
(7) Other greenies crippling US growth in opposing safe tracking for natural gas.
(8) He can try to use the mine’s fate as a way to recast the climate debate back to the familiar theme of “bad” (and now apparently unpatriotic) greenies jeopardising “good” Aussie jobs.
(9) "Grud on a Greenie" is an exclamation of surprise, "Drokk" is a legal expletive and "Boing" is a spray on rubber coating which solidifies into a giant ball which people keep putting themselves in.
(10) Look past the statistical comedy – the jobs figures are actually great news | Greg Jericho Read more While the focus groups might assure him that “blaming the greenies” and “wedging labour” are the right things to do, such political tactics have nothing to do with the actual economic problems Australia currently faces.
(11) The problem for the unemployed is that goading greenies is not actually a mechanism for creating jobs.
(12) Doing an audition with bronchitis and coughing up a greeny on to the script in front of me.
(13) Among other things, today’s agenda included an imminent event built around Miliband “and young Greeny people, on the millennium development goals” (this is one of two mentions of the “G” word, and global issues way beyond Labour’s beloved cost-of-living crisis – proof, perhaps, that the Green threat is being taken seriously).
(14) German Chancellor Angela Merkel is anything but a left-wing greenie.
(15) Such might have been the hope entertained for an independent Scotland, if it weren’t for the “far left” and “greenies” that Rupert Murdoch warned were empowered by the campaign.
(16) He leaned out of a helicopter to inspect "the greeny, browny gunge" in the sea below.