What's the difference between green and veg?

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.

Veg


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I choose the halibut fillet with scallops, dauphinoise potatoes, veg melange and pesto tapenade.
  • (2) Let’s begin just after the second world war, when Liverpool took a pre-season trip to the good ol’ US of A to gorge on meat, veg, malted milks and ice creams, working on the theory that by fattening themselves up, they’d have a season’s worth of energy stored when they got back to ration-book Britain.
  • (3) Groceries were delivered and a horse-drawn fruit and veg cart called along the road weekly.
  • (4) Use local, seasonal food The best restaurants observe the British seasons with their ingredients, so go to a farmers' market to buy your veg, and get the best you can afford.
  • (5) Anyway, swap fruit’n’veg, collect magic beans and compare your scores with Facebook friends.
  • (6) Then there are the "ethylene absorbing" discs you can place in a bowl to keep your fruit fresh for longer; the polyurethane foam cushions designed to prevent fruit and veg from becoming bruised; and the silicone "food huggers" into which you pop your leftover half a lemon or tomato.
  • (7) If you have a veg patch, you could be enjoying homegrown lettuce for most of the year.
  • (8) Saturday is a great day to sample its wines from France, Portugal, Spain and Italy as there is a weekly organic fruit and veg market outside.
  • (9) I'll do anything: peel spuds, look after the veg, make an impromptu pud.
  • (10) "I aim to do my seven a day without eating these processed things you are describing," says Oyinlola Oyebode, lead investigator of UCL's report , which argued the enhanced benefits of eating seven-plus portions of fruit and veg a day.
  • (11) You can buy some veg cheaper than supermarkets in some shops in my area.
  • (12) Vegetations were classified according to its size (longest axis) into small (veg less than 5 mm), medium (5 mm less than veg less than 10 mm) and large (veg less than 10 mm); according to its kind into "sessible" or "mobile" and according to its appearence into "cotton like" or "calcified".
  • (13) The privately owned chain is still a relative minnow, controlling just 5.8% of all grocery sales in the UK, but only Pampers nappies are bigger sellers than its Mamia brand, and 8% of our fresh fruit and veg, and over a fifth of all premium steaks, are bought in Aldi stores.
  • (14) Paris Cheapest for wine, onions Pricey for milk, lamb, bananas paris Freelance journalist Judith Prescott (above), who has lived in the French capital for two decades, shops at supermarket chain Auchan for her husband and two daughters, and reckons her bill is around €100 a week (£79), although that doesn't include the fruit and veg she tends to buy in local markets.
  • (15) A head of National Vegetarian Week we asked some of Britain's best veg-loving chefs for tips on how to jazz up meat-free cooking.
  • (16) • 2814 North 16 Street, barriocafe.com CULINARY HEROES FnB Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Jill Richards Photography Among the Native American souvenir stores of Scottsdale old town, is the excellent FnB, a truly forward-thinking, showcase for the state’s native produce in veg-centric dishes: salad of persimmons with hazelnut, kohlrabi, dill and goat’s cheese.
  • (17) Unlike Altmejd, she has always used materials that are resolutely downbeat: abandoned mattresses, old tights, fruit and veg, the toilet bowl.
  • (18) Aldi promises to be at least 15% cheaper than equivalent products at traditional supermarkets, and its weekly deals on fruit and veg, as well as fresh meat, from premium dry-cured steaks to basic mince, have fuelled a nationwide price war.
  • (19) The food, Korean, is cheap (starters less than a fiver; mains under £8) and very good: bibimbap, of course, also crisp fried mandu (dumplings) with homemade soy; tangy blanched and pickled veg; sizzling marinated beef; fat pork belly with garlic, kimchi and spicy doenjang sauce.
  • (20) Beetroot blueberry pancakes These bright pink pancakes liven up the breakfast table and are a great way to get some veg in the morning.