greening
any variety of apple whose skin is green when ripe.
the return or revival of youthful characteristics: the greening of America.
Origin of greening
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How to use greening in a sentence
Beyond ensuring access to cooling, whether at home or in cooling centers, urban greening and increasing tree cover can also play an important role in lessening the effects of extreme heat on a neighborhood.
“We found that urban greening works best for reducing runoff in more arid, water-limited environments, while in more humid, energy-limited climates, cooling is more likely to be a stronger benefit.”
Urban green spaces can’t beat climate change on their own | Sara Kiley Watson | February 19, 2022 | Popular-ScienceIt is a plan for the greening of an existing military, rather than the creation of an environmentally neutral branch of the military from scratch.
This is the Army’s plan to battle climate change—and still fight wars | Kelsey D. Atherton | February 11, 2022 | Popular-ScienceNew climate simulations looking to both the region’s past and future suggest this greening could have a profound effect on the climate of northern Africa, and even beyond.
Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ could have far-reaching climate effects | Carolyn Gramling | January 3, 2022 | Science NewsMeanwhile, other areas at risk of urban flooding across the globe are deploying their own greening projects to help absorb heavy precipitation, from Philadelphia’s Green Acres program to Cairo’s rooftop garden initiative.
There are some obvious reasons for the greening of the car fleet.
July was the Greenest Month Ever for U.S. Car Sales | Anna Batchelor | August 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut in this age of the greening of the U.S. auto fleet, so does smart engineering and pinching pennies.
Detroit’s Green Leap Forward Pulls In to New York Auto Show | Daniel Gross | March 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAs temperatures rise, the Sahara and other dry areas are greening on the edges.
greening (furiously to Head Cook): How did you come to engage such a scurvy-looking fellow?
Christmas Entertainments | Alice Maude KelloggSweeting stands before greening, holding out her dress while greening reaches down pepper-pot from dresser.
Christmas Entertainments | Alice Maude KelloggBlossom and greenness are everywhere; even the brown paths of the plough and harrow are greening with springing grain.
In New England Fields and Woods | Rowland E. RobinsonOne of the six is still in cultivation, and known as the Illinois greening.
American Pomology | J. A. WarderOne of Arizona's most wonderful phenomena is the sudden greening of the sandy stretches after a heavy rain.
Arizona's Yesterday | John H. Cady
British Dictionary definitions for greening
/ (ˈɡriːnɪŋ) /
the process of making or becoming more aware of environmental considerations
Origin of greening
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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