(n.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5.
(n.) Coin made of silver; silver money.
(n.) Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
(n.) The color of silver.
(a.) Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
(a.) Resembling silver.
(a.) Bright; resplendent; white.
(a.) Precious; costly.
(a.) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
(a.) Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
(v. t.) To cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.
(v. t.) To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
(v. t.) To make hoary, or white, like silver.
(v. i.) To acquire a silvery color.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another Guardian podcast, Days in the Life, won silver in the same category.
(2) Sulphides, which possibly form on silver alloys, showed cytotoxicity.
(3) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(4) Using a silver staining technique (AgNOR technique), we have investigated the nucleolar organizer-associated proteins (NORs) in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded conjunctival specimens of 15 intraepithelial squamous carcinomas, 10 hyperplastic-dysplastic samples and 10 control epithelial fragments; the mean number of intranuclear black dots was determined for each case.
(5) By contrast, SAP-35, the major surfactant-associated glycoprotein of molecular weight = 35,000, and other higher molecular weight proteins were not detected in significant quantities in the CLSE or surfactant-TA replacement surfactants, either by highly sensitive silver stain analysis or by immunoblot using monospecific antisera generated against bovine SAP-35.
(6) Average number of metaphase Ag-NOR chromosomes (calculated per diploid chromosome set) in haploid parthenogenones exceeded that in the control; in some cases all NORs were stained by silver.
(7) They continuously produced heteropolymeric G6PD and showed strictly additive patterns of silver staining of both parental sets of nucleolar organizing chromosomes.
(8) The nerve endings in the heart of fishes were studied using silver impregnation techniques.
(9) The silver impregnated axons of these cells converge to a paired centrosuperficial tract forming terminal enlargements at the ventrolateral surface of the spinal cord.
(10) On the upside, this year's monsoon will lead to bumper agricultural production, and the cheaper rupee also comes with a thick silver lining.
(11) Some proteins stained with silver can be directly transfer, almost all proteins can be transferred comparably to non-stained controls.
(12) Treatment of the nucleoli with 80 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5) -- 0.15 M NaCl did, however, eliminate silver binding.
(13) Light microscope autoradiography revealed the development of specific silver grains in the medial layer of epineurial and perineurial arteries in sections of sciatic nerve exposed either to [3H]DHA or [3H]QNB.
(14) The ammoniacal silver method, which identifies basic proteins, gives a positive reaction in cytoplasmic granules of rat peritoneal mast cells.
(15) In this study we confirmed this finding in two cases of PSP by using Bodian silver staining and immunohistochemistry with antibody to human tau protein.
(16) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
(17) Several hundred polypeptides were resolved as seen by silver staining.
(18) The Bielschowski silver stain revealed intracellular, argentophilic deposits, which were birefringent when stained with Congo red and viewed in polarized light.
(19) Since no evaluation of the relative merits of electro and chemical cautery has been reported, a prospective randomized study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of electro-cautery and cautery with silver nitrate.
(20) The labelling intensity (as estimated by the number of silver grains per unit of cytoplasmic area) was maximum in cells having dense-cored vesicles whose mean diameter was between 130 and 170 nm, but decreased for cells with mean diameter of dense cores smaller than 130 nm, or larger than 170 nm.
Silvery
Definition:
(a.) Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
(a.) Besprinkled or covered with silver.
(a.) Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fat silvery frames wrapping around groups of floors in a vain attempt to break up the sheer bulk, it looks like a stack of hard drives or the back of a computer server – an accidental nod to the nearby Silicon Roundabout.
(2) From the meeting room window, you could sense the corporation's heritage and scale: the immense old grey whale of Television Centre to the south, its 50-year-old curves barnacled with more recent additions; to the west, the long silvery blocks of the BBC's newer "Media Village", opened in 2004, at the peak of the corporation's modern expansion, by Jonathan Ross himself.
(3) They have arranged the new paving into a broad diamond pattern of pale granite on dark, put all the street lighting on to a row of tall, silvery masts.
(4) An odd-looking fellow, with a deep voice, a weather-beaten face and silvery hair, topped by a beret worn in military fashion.
(5) This layer contains a horseshoe-shaped gland, the choroid gland, the outer portion of which is surrounded by a layer of silvery guanin crystals generally termed the argentea.
(6) To examine the changes in secretion of growth hormone (GH) and prolactin (PRL) with reference to their osmoregulatory roles, changes in pituitary mRNA levels and plasma concentrations of these hormones were examined during seawater adaptation in silvery juveniles (smolts) and precociously mature males (dark parr) of amago salmon (Oncorhynchus rhodurus).
(7) Sir John may have hair that is more silvery than ever, and his sky-blue tie shines like the sun on a tropical sea at daybreak, but he still brings a powerful whiff of the past.
(8) It is Patrick Dempsey growing from spindly tween idol into a silvery heartthrob.
(9) In her biography, Dusty , Lucy O’Brien quotes Jerry Wexler, who produced Dusty in Memphis along with Arif Mardin, talking about the uniqueness of her sound: “There were no traces of black in her singing, she’s not mimetic… She has a pure silvery stream.” Silvery, I like that.
(10) Her long blond hair, tied back as usual, has turned silvery grey.
(11) Built on an artificial island, it looks beautiful from above, with all the complexity of an airport resolved into a single silvery object.
(12) Courtesy of Sir Peter Blake He started to do them in a thin, silvery watercolour, which he felt conveyed the essence of a dream, but later adopted a wider palette after realising that his own dreams were in colour.
(13) The managing director of the IMF may look like one of those statuesque silvery models who appear in Weekend's All Ages fashion pages, but she is one of the world's most powerful women, in the eye of the world's worst storm in living memory.
(14) Atlantic fronts barrel in, clouds tussle, shafts of sunbeams and great fat silvery pools of light chase over swelling seas to fields of infinite greens.
(15) A silvery thread snakes through paper made from white cotton.
(16) Clad with vertical solar fins designed to protect the interior offices from glare, these silvery slats are stretched open as the building swells upwards, giving it the look of a broad-shouldered banker bursting out of his pin-striped suit – now with deadly laser beam eyes.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diego Nazario, back, and Emanuel Dantas Borges, train in the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake, surrounded by dead small silvery fish.
(18) In a recent study by Miceli, Silveri, Romani, and Caramazza (Brain and Language, 1989, 36, 447-492), free speech records for 20 unselected Italian-speaking agrammatic patients were analyzed along a variety of linguistic parameters, with particular emphasis on substitution and omission errors within traditional "part of speech" categories.
(19) Gaze out on to the silvery surf unrolling behind your cruise liner?
(20) An increase in seawater adaptability was observed in silvery juvenile amago salmon as underyearlings from autumn to winter, when some of the wild population migrate to the sea.