What's the difference between green and orange?

Green


Definition:

  • (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.

Orange


Definition:

  • (n.) The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (C. Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.
  • (n.) The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.
  • (n.) The color of an orange; reddish yellow.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) DNA in situ is progressively denatured when the cells or nuclei are treated with increasing concentration of acridine orange (AO).
  • (2) The crystal structure of the biological stain, "acridine orange," has been determined.
  • (3) Vital staining of neuroblastoma cells with acridine orange produces a bright intracellular red-orange fluorescence most probably due to the occurrence of RNA.
  • (4) The cryptoxanthin esters varied from 5 to 10% of the total carotenoids in Valencia orange juice concentrates and from 10 to 15% of the total carotenoids in Navel orange juice concentrates.
  • (5) As a result, O2, Orange and Vodafone are expected to offer both pre-pay and contract deals.
  • (6) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
  • (7) A novel staining procedure for enumerating osteoclasts on neonatal mouse calvaria with the vital fluorescent dye acridine orange is described.
  • (8) A histidine-requiring derivative of strain AA0019 obtained after acridine orange treatment retained the cryptic plasmid DNA.
  • (9) Simultaneously with in vitro fertilization (IVF), the acridine orange (AO) test was performed on 51 patients according to the method of Tejada et al.
  • (10) Some of these transductants segregated certain F14 genes, indicating they were carried on self-replicating genetic elements, but others were not cured of F14 markers, even by acridine orange.
  • (11) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
  • (12) Because previous work has shown that radioisotope release from parasites may be nonspecific, separate experiments were performed to determine the cytotoxicity of LAK cells against antibody-coated trophozoites by using ethidium bromide-acridine orange staining to assess effector cell damage.
  • (13) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (14) The uteri of ten patients who wore a copper-T for several months up to two years were examined immediately following hysterectomy by conventional microscopic techniques, fluorescent optical techniques after Acridin-Orange-Fluorochromization and by histo-chemical techniques for copper.
  • (15) No color was developed with ninhydrin, but the reduced form was orange-red.
  • (16) Place the blackberries in a bowl and scatter over the caster sugar and orange zest.
  • (17) In 12 patients (25-76 years-old) gastric emptying was quantified by scintigraphy after ingestion of 300 ml Tc-99m-labelled orange juice; simultaneously, the region of the gastric antrum was measured in 5-minute intervals in the aortic longitudinal section.
  • (18) X-replication was studied after BUDR incroporation and acridine orange staining.
  • (19) Detailed case histories are presented to show the course of parasitaemia in several orang-utans.
  • (20) It involved preservation of unstained chromosome slides in a vacuum desiccator up to 18 months, Q-staining, destaining, and treatment in Hanks' solution, pH 5.1, at 85 degrees C for 13 min, and acridine orange staining.