(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.
Wine
Definition:
(n.) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.
(n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
(n.) The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(3) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(4) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
(5) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
(6) Mann-Whitney U-tests showed that during the 7 years of highest wine consumption the highest rates for breast cancer occurred for females aged 30--59 years, but for women over 60 years of age the result was insignificant.
(7) His latest thinking includes introducing concierge desks to welcome shoppers and tapas bars in its wine departments.
(8) How can the CHOGM leaders condemn the dictatorship of Musharraf but happily wine and dine with Museveni?
(9) And on those occasions where I'm in the mood to take the wine pairing very seriously it's the vegetable dishes that require the most creative thought.
(10) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(11) Determination of changes in lightness by photoelectric colorimetry provides an objective, quantitative means to evaluate the effects of laser treatment of port wine stains.
(12) The most common inhalant stupefacients were "Butapren" glue, trichlorethylene and "Roxy" fluid; wine and vodka were the alcohols used.
(13) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(14) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(15) By abusing his power, he was engrossed in irregularities and corruption, had improper relations with several women and was wined and dined at back parlours of deluxe restaurants.
(16) If we managed to import a German royal family, why is it not possible for us to also import the German housing system – slowly, bit by bit, along with their Christmas trees and mulled wine?
(17) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
(18) The college previously said mothers-to-be should not drink more than two units once or twice a week – a small glass of wine of 125ml is 1.5 units.
(19) In the UK, alcohol consumption has shifted substantially from moderate strength beer sold in pubs to strong lager, cider, wine and spirits sold by supermarkets for drinking at home.
(20) Duty on beer, wine and spirits will increase as planned from midnight Sunday • Tobacco duty will rise immediately by 1% above inflation this year, then 2% • Increase in fuel duty to be staged.