(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.
Triad
Definition:
(n.) A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.
(n.) A chord of three notes.
(n.) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.
(n.) An element or radical whose valence is three.
Example Sentences:
(1) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
(2) The syndrome initially described by Behçet in 1937 comprised the triad of ocular inflammation, oral and genital ulcers.
(3) The diagnostic triad of pneumoperitoneum on x-ray, evidence or history of CMV infection, and AIDS occurred in 70 percent of patients.
(4) The characteristic signs and symptoms represent the triad of a pulsatile mass in the upper part of the abdomen, intermittent hemorrhage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract and severe epigastralgia not relieved by antacids.
(5) Cardiac myxomas typically present as a triad of obstructive, embolic, and constitutional symptoms and thus mimic many more common systemic illnesses.
(6) A mother and daughter both presented at age 5 years with the triad of right-sided congenital cholesteatoma, right preauricular pits, and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
(7) Traumatic hemobilia is commonly associated with cavitary injuries to the liver, and is classically characterized by a triad of findings: GI bleeding, biliary colic, and jaundice.
(8) The tryptase sequence includes the essential residues of the catalytic triad and an aspartic acid at the base of the putative substrate binding pocket that confers P1 Arg and Lys specificity on tryptic serine proteases.
(9) The authors observed in one child and AGR triad and in two patients deformities of the skeleton of the head and lower extremities.
(10) The prospects of further progress in radiation therapy, based on the triad of patient care, teaching and research, now seem assured.
(11) Dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis is a rare heritable disorder consisting of a triad of cutaneous findings including reticulate hyperpigmentation, noncicatricial alopecia, and onychodystrophy.
(12) The classical triad of symptoms seen in hemochromatosis (cirrhosis of the liver, diabetes mellitus, and skin pigmentation) are often supplemented by cardiomyopathy.
(13) The clinical history of acute pyelonephritis, avascular mass lesion of the kidney with ipsilateral pleural effusion (triad) seen in a female patient of child-bearing age is characteristic of this condition.
(14) In contrast, changes at Arg-7, Lys-12 and any one proline residue in the triad moderately reduced, and substitution of Lys-19 showed little effect on, activity.
(15) Four of the six patients had a progressive triad of ear pain, facial paralysis, and sensory loss in the second and third divisions of the trigeminal nerve.
(16) Skeletal muscle triads are possessing the whole set of enzymes of the phosphatidylinositol (PI)-linked signal generating pathway, PI-kinase, PI(4)P-kinase, and PI(4,5)P2-phospholipase C (PLC).
(17) In the present experiments, neurons were plated together in close apposition as pairs or as triads, with the tip of one Retzius cell touching the soma of another.
(18) The triad of generalized seborrheic dermatitis, failure to thrive, and diarrhea in an infant should bring to mind Leiner disease or severe combined immunodeficiency disease.
(19) These structures were concentrated in the perinuclear regions of peripheral muscle nuclei and were less abundant about the triad regions.
(20) A liver biopsy was performed in one patient 8 months after total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplantation; numerous clusters of islet cells staining strongly for insulin and glucagon were detected within portal triads on both wedge and needle biopsy specimens.