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green

  [green] adjective, -er, -est, noun, verb
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–adjective
1. of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum: green leaves.
2. covered with herbage or foliage; verdant: green fields.
3. characterized by the presence of verdure.
4. made of green vegetables, as lettuce, spinach, endive, or chicory: a green salad.
5. not fully developed or perfected in growth or condition; unripe; not properly aged: This peach is still green.
6. unseasoned; not dried or cured: green lumber.
7. immature in age or judgment; untrained; inexperienced: a green worker.
8. simple; unsophisticated; gullible; easily fooled.
9. fresh, recent, or new: an insult still green in his mind.
10. having a sickly appearance; pale; wan: green with fear; green with envy.
11. full of life and vigor; young: a man ripe in years but green in heart.
12. environmentally sound or beneficial: green computers.
13. (of wine) having a flavor that is raw, harsh, and acid, due esp. to a lack of maturity.
14. freshly slaughtered or still raw: green meat.
15. not fired, as bricks or pottery.
16. (of cement or mortar) freshly set and not completely hardened.
17. Foundry.
a. (of sand) sufficiently moist to form a compact lining for a mold without further treatment.
b. (of a casting) as it comes from the mold.
c. (of a powder, in powder metallurgy) unsintered.
–noun
18. a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
19. Art. a secondary color that has been formed by the mixture of blue and yellow pigments.
20. green coloring matter, as paint or dye.
21. green material or clothing: to be dressed in green.
22. greens,
a. fresh leaves or branches of trees, shrubs, etc., used for decoration; wreaths.
b. the leaves and stems of plants, as spinach, lettuce, or cabbage, used for food.
c. a blue-green uniform of the U.S. Army.
23. grassy land; a plot of grassy ground.
24. a piece of grassy ground constituting a town or village common.
25. Also called putting green. Golf. the area of closely cropped grass surrounding each hole.
26. bowling green.
27. a shooting range for archery.
28. Informal. green light (def. 1).
29. Slang. money; greenbacks (usually prec. by the): I'd like to buy a new car but I don't have the green.
30. (initial capital letter) a member of the Green party (in Germany).
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
31. to become or make green.
32. Informal. to restore the vitality of: Younger executives are greening corporate managements.
—Idiom
33. read the green, to inspect a golf green, analyzing its slope and surface, so as to determine the difficulties to be encountered when putting.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE grēne; c. G grün; akin to grow

Related forms:
greenage, noun
greenly, adverb
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Green

  [green]
–noun
1. Henrietta Howland Robinson (“Hetty”), 1835–1916, U.S. financier.
2. Henry (Henry Vincent Yorke), 1905–73, English novelist.
3. John Richard, 1837–83, English historian.
4. Julian, 1900–1998, French writer, born in U.S.
5. Paul Eliot, 1894–1981, U.S. playwright, novelist, and teacher.
6. William, 1873–1952, U.S. labor leader: president of the A.F.L. 1924–52.
7. a river flowing S from W Wyoming to join the Colorado River in SE Utah. 730 mi. (1175 km) long.

Green River

 
–noun
a town in SW Wyoming. 12,807.
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green   (grēn)   
n.  

  1. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

  2. Something green in color.

  3. greens Green growth or foliage, especially:

    1. The branches and leaves of plants used for decoration.

    2. Leafy plants or plant parts eaten as vegetables.

    3. A grassy area located usually at the center of a city or town and set aside for common use; a common.

    4. Sports A putting green.

  4. A grassy lawn or plot, especially:

    1. A grassy area located usually at the center of a city or town and set aside for common use; a common.

    2. Sports A putting green.

  5. greens A green uniform: "a young . . . sergeant in dress greens" (Nelson DeMille).

  6. Slang Money.

  7. Green A supporter of a social and political movement that espouses global environmental protection, bioregionalism, social responsibility, and nonviolence.

adj.   green·er, green·est

  1. Of the color green.

  2. Abounding in or covered with green growth or foliage: the green woods.

  3. Made with green or leafy vegetables: a green salad.

  4. Characterized by mild or temperate weather: a green climate.

  5. Youthful; vigorous: at the green age of 18.

  6. Not mature or ripe; young: green tomatoes.

  7. Brand-new; fresh.

  8. Not yet fully processed, especially:

    1. Not aged: green wood.

    2. Not cured or tanned: green pelts.

    3. Lacking sophistication or worldly experience; naive.

    4. Easily duped or deceived; gullible.

    5. Beneficial to the environment: green recycling policies.

    6. Favoring or supporting environmentalism: green legislators who strengthened pollution controls.

  9. Lacking training or experience. See Synonyms at young.

    1. Lacking sophistication or worldly experience; naive.

    2. Easily duped or deceived; gullible.

    3. Beneficial to the environment: green recycling policies.

    4. Favoring or supporting environmentalism: green legislators who strengthened pollution controls.

  11. Having a sickly or unhealthy pallor indicative of nausea or jealousy, for example.

    1. Beneficial to the environment: green recycling policies.

    2. Favoring or supporting environmentalism: green legislators who strengthened pollution controls.

tr. & intr.v.   greened, green·ing, greens
To make or become green.

[Middle English grene, from Old English grēne; see ghrē- in Indo-European roots. N., sense 7 translation of German (die) Grünen, (the) Greens, from grün, green.]
green'ly adv., green'ness n.
Green, William 1873-1952.  
American labor leader who as president of the American Federation of Labor (1924-1952) led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations after the two unions split (1936).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
green

and green folding; green paper; green stuff
  1. n.
    money; paper money. (See also long bread.) : I have so much green stuff, I don't know what to do with it. , What is need is more green! Not promises!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

green 
O.E. grene, earlier groeni, related to O.E. growan "to grow," from W.Gmc. *gronja- (cf. O.Fris. grene, O.N. grænn, Dan. grøn, Du. groen, Ger. grün), from PIE base *gro- "grow," through sense of "color of living plants." The color of jealousy at least since Shakespeare (1596); "Greensleeves," ballad of an inconstant lady-love, is from 1580. Meaning of "a field, grassy place" was in O.E. Sense of "of tender age, youthful" is from 1412; hence "gullible" (1605). Greenhorn (containing the sense of "new, fresh, recent") was first "young horned animal" (1455), then "recently enlisted soldier" (1650), then "any inexperienced person" (1682). Green light in figurative sense of "permission" is from 1937. Green and red as signals on railways first attested 1883, as nighttime substitutes for semaphore flags. Green beret originally "British commando" is from 1949. Green room "room for actors when not on stage" is from 1701; presumably a well-known one was painted green.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1green
Pronunciation: 'grEn
Function: adjective
1 : of the color green
2 of a wound : beingrecently incurred and unhealed
3 of hemolytic streptococci : tending to produce green pigment when cultured on blood media

Main Entry: 2green
Function: noun
1 : a color whose hue is somewhat less yellow than that of growing fresh grass or of the emerald or is that of thepart of the spectrum lying between blue and yellow
2 : a pigment or dye that colors green —see JANUSGREEN
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

Green
A language proposed by Cii Honeywell-Bull to meet the DoD Ironman requirements which led to Ada. This language won in 1979.
["On the GREEN Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):16-21 (Oct 1978)].
(1994-12-02)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

green

In addition to the idioms beginning with green, also see grass is always greener.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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