green

Takođe pogledajte: gréén, Green, i Green.

Engleski

Various shades of green

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, grœ̄ne, grœ̄ni (green), from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz (compare North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Holandski groen, Low German grön, green, greun, Nemački grün, Danski and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Švedski grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (to grow). More at grow.

Adjective

green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)

  1. Having green as its color.
    Sinonims: verdant, vert
    The former flag of Libya is fully green.
  2. (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
    Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?
  3. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
  4. (figurative) Inexperienced.
    Sinonim: Thesaurus:inexperienced
    John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
    • Šablon:RQ:Scott Peveril of the Peak
    • 2008, Richard R. Rust, Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada (page 91)
      He acted like a green racehorse, plunging over his jumps, tearing to the front of the field of riders.
  5. (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
    Sinonim: Thesaurus:gullible
  6. (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
    He was green with envy.
  7. (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
    Sinonim: eco-friendly
    green energy
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    • 2021 maj 18, Jack Ewing; Lauren Hirsch, “The Big Money Is Going Vegan”, in The New York Times[3], ISSN 0362-4331:
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  8. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
  9. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.[1]
    Sinonims: raw, unprocessed, unsmoked
  10. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
  11. (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
    • 1947, Theatre Catalog (volume 5, page 570)
      Following initial drying of film in a motion picture laboratory (after treatment in a hardening-fixing bath) the gelatin structure of an emulsion contracts and is permanently changed. The hardening action still continues for a time as a further small amount of residual moisture is given up. While traces of excess moisture remain, the emulsion is "green," relatively soft, []
    • 1961, American Cinematographer (volume 42, page 618)
      [] attaching pre-photographed and pre-printed footage of a focusing chart to daily film footage without taking into consideration that such film may be worn or dried out and therefore, in its plane of best focus, would not be identical to that of the green film of the daily rushes.
  12. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
    That timber is still too green to be used.
  13. (wine) High or too high in acidity.
    Sinonim: tart
  14. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
    Sinonim: Thesaurus:new
    a green manhood
    a green wound
  15. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
  16. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
  17. Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
    the green pound
    the green lira
Antonyms
Derived terms

Pages starting with "green".

Related terms
Descendants
  • Bislama: grin
  • Marshallese: kūriin
  • Tok Pisin: grin
Translations
References
  1. “unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency” Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon

Etymology 2

From Middle English grene, from the adjective (see above).

Noun

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green (countable and uncountable, plural greens)

  1. The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
    green colour:  
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  2. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
    Sinonims: environmentalist, (Australian) greenie, tree hugger, treehugger
    Hyponyms: blue green, red green
    • 2013, Joe Smith, What Do Greens Believe?, →ISBN, strana 62:
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  3. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
    • 2010, Dan Jenkins, Fairways and Greens, →ISBN, strana 233:
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  4. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
    Sinonim: bowling green
  5. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
  6. (British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
  7. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
  8. (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
  9. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
  10. A green light used as a signal.
    • 1992, "How to Avoid the Most Embarrassing of Pilot Errors", in Flying Magazine (volume 119, number 6, page 94)
      To the casual cockpit observer, landing-gear operation appears to be one of the most elementary tasks we have to perform. Either the switch is up and the lights are out, or it's down and there are three greens.
  11. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
    Sinonim: Thesaurus:marijuana
    • 2005, “Drive Slow”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West:
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  12. (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
  13. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
  14. (theater, informal) Short for green room.
    • 2016, Bruce Montague, The Book of Shakespearian Useless Information
      Today, actors say off-handedly, 'See you on the green' or 'I'll be in the green room' without giving the expressions much thought. In Shakespeare's day, actors changed behind the stage in the 'tiring house', []
Derived terms
Place names which include "Green"
Related terms
Descendants
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English grenen, from Old English grēnian (to become green, flourish), from Proto-Germanic *grōnijōną, *grōnijaną (to become green), from the adjective (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, Nemački grünen, Švedski gröna, Icelandic gróna.

Verb

green

  1. (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
    • Šablon:RQ:Thomson Spring
      Great spring before greened all the year.
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  2. To become or grow green in colour.
  3. (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
    • 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)
      The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.
  4. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
  5. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations

See also

Boje in Engleski · colors, colours (layout · text)
     white      gray, grey      black      brown
             pink              red ; crimson              orange              yellow ; cream
             lime              green                           cyan ; teal
             azure, sky blue              blue              violet ; indigo              magenta ; purple

Anagrams


Czech

Etymology

From Engleski green.

Pronunciation

Noun

green m

  1. (slang, golf) green (a putting green; the part of a golf course near the hole)

Usage notes

Although the official term for the green is jamkoviště, it is rarely used in practice. Instead, unofficial Czech versions of the English word green, variously spelled green, grýn, and grín, are used in practice.[1]

Declension

References

  1. “Golf Club Hradec Králové, Jan. 6, 2010”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], accessed 6 January 2010, archived from the original on 16 May 2010

Danish

Etymology

From Engleski green.

Noun

green c (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greens, definite plural greenene)

  1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Further reading


Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Lua greška in Modul:languages at line 1276: attempt to index field 'type' (a nil value)., from Old Norse grǫn.

Pronunciation

Noun

green m (plural grenen)

  1. (obsolete) Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris
    Sinonim: grove den
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Engleski green.

Pronunciation

Noun

green m (plural greens)

  1. (golf) green, putting green

Francuski

Noun

green m (plural greens)

  1. (golf) green

German Low German

Alternative forms

Adjective

green

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French greer; equivalent to Afrikans.

Pronunciation

Verb

green (Late Middle English)

  1. To come to an understanding or agreement.
  2. (rare) To make a compact of reconciliation.

Conjugation

Šablon:enm-conj-wk

Descendants

References


North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

green

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greener, definite plural greenene)

  1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greenar, definite plural greenane)

  1. (golf) a green or putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

green c

  1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area around a hole on a golf course)

Declension

Declension of green 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative green greenen greener greenerna
Genitive greens greenens greeners greenernas

Anagrams


Yola

Etymology

From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī.

Adjective

green

  1. green
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References

Boje in Yola · [Term?] (layout · text)
     whit, baun      gry      bhlock, blaak     
             rowse              reed              yulloureed              yullou, buee
             *leem green              green              *meente              blúegreen
             *asure              blúe                           purple