The meaning of Green

noun

A light bluish-green colour; aquamarine.

Usage examples:

Houses of yellow and aqua

noun

(especially in pharmaceutical and commercial use) water.

Usage examples:

Although sessions for local schools are on the timetable, the pool will be open for public use most…

combining form

Relating to water.

Usage examples:

Aquaculture

noun

A precious stone consisting of a light bluish-green variety of beryl.

Usage examples:

A small boy with eyes the colour of aquamarines

adjective

(of a person's face) very pale with shock, fear, or illness.

Usage examples:

Eleanor's ashen face

adjective

Made of timber from the ash tree.

Usage examples:

I slopped the stuff on and miraculously the ashen timbers of our bench and table suite turned slowl…

adjective

(of a person’s face) looking pale and gray from illness, shock, or fear

collocation

If someone is ashen-faced, their face is pale grey in colour, often because they are worried or ill

Usage examples:

Julie walked in, ashen-faced with shock., she came out of the meeting looking ashen-faced, so i imm…

adjective

(of an item of food) having been briefly immersed in boiling water, especially in order to remove the skin or to prepare it for further cooking.

Usage examples:

Add the garlic, spices, and blanched cauliflower to the fried onion and continue to cook until soft

verb

Make white or pale by extracting colour.

Usage examples:

The cold light blanched her face

adjective

(of a young person) inexperienced and immature.

Usage examples:

Earnest and callow undergraduates

adjective

Someone, especially a young person, who is callow behaves in a way that shows they have little experience, confidence, or judgment

Usage examples:

Mark was just a callow youth of 16 when he arrived in paris.

adjective

Occurring, found, or done often; prevalent.

Usage examples:

Salt and pepper are the two most common seasonings

noun

A piece of open land for public use.

Usage examples:

We spent the morning tramping over the common looking for flowers

adjective

Found frequently in many places or among many people

Usage examples:

Money worries are a common problem for people raising children., guilt and forgiveness are themes c…

noun

A person who advocates or acts for the protection and preservation of the environment and wildlife.

Usage examples:

Conservationist groups

noun

A person who believes in or works for the protection of plants, animals, and natural areas, esp. from the damaging effects of human activity

adjective

Having or showing too great a readiness to believe things.

Usage examples:

A ceremony staged for credulous tourists

adjective

Too willing to believe what you are told and so easily deceived

verb

Cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty or dry.

Usage examples:

We drained the swimming pool

noun

A channel or pipe carrying off surplus liquid, especially rainwater or liquid waste.

Usage examples:

The room's toilet pipes and shower drains carry this waste to a holding tank.

noun

A thing that uses up a particular resource.

Usage examples:

Nuclear power is a serious drain on the public purse

noun

A person who is concerned about protecting the environment.

Usage examples:

The environmentalist movement

adjective

Concerned with or advocating the protection of the environment.

Usage examples:

The environmentalist movement

adjective

Having the belief that environment, as opposed to heredity, has the primary influence on the development of a person or group.

adjective

Of a dull greyish-green or blue colour.

Usage examples:

Friedrich's ‘landscape with a view of mt milleschauer’, possibly unfinished, is a desolate near-abs…

adjective

Greyish-green in colour

Usage examples:

The plant has glaucous leaves and yellow flowers.

noun

Vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop.

Usage examples:

The ground was mostly barren with just short grass, where no vegetation dared to grow.

verb

Cover (an area of ground) with grass.

Usage examples:

The railway tracks were mostly grassed over

noun

A low, green plant with narrow leaves growing naturally over much of the earth’s surface

Usage examples:

[ u ] are you going to cut the grass?, [ c ] wildflowers and grasses of the great plains thrive wit…

adjective

Covered with grass.

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Grassy slopes

adjective

Covered with grass

Usage examples:

A grassy slope/hillside

adjective

Having a green tinge; slightly green.

Usage examples:

The water's greenish hue

adjective

Slightly green in colour

Usage examples:

A slightly greenish complexion, greenish-blue eyes

noun

Grass-covered ground.

Usage examples:

City workers lolling on the greensward

adjective

Of a colour intermediate between black and white, as of ashes or lead.

Usage examples:

Grey flannel trousers

noun

Grey colour or pigment.

Usage examples:

Dirty intermediate tones of grey

verb

(especially of hair) become grey with age.

Usage examples:

He had put on weight and greyed somewhat

adjective

Easily persuaded to believe something; credulous.

Usage examples:

An attempt to persuade a gullible public to spend their money

adjective

Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.

Usage examples:

He was told constantly that he was ignorant and stupid

adjective

Having no knowledge or awareness of something or of things in general

Usage examples:

We were very young, ignorant, unskilled men., you have to assume that incoming students have an alm…

adjective

Not having enough knowledge, understanding, or information about something

Usage examples:

Ignorant about many teenagers are surprisingly ignorant about current politics., blissfully ignoran…

adjective

Suffering from an illness or disease or feeling unwell.

Usage examples:

He was taken ill with food poisoning

adverb

Badly, wrongly, or imperfectly.

Usage examples:

The street is dominated by ill-lit shops

noun

A problem or misfortune.

Usage examples:

A lengthy work on the ills of society

adjective

Not fully developed.

Usage examples:

Many of the fish caught are immature

adjective

Not completely developed physically, mentally, or emotionally, or lacking the expected type of responsible behavior for your age

Usage examples:

Some of the boys in my class are so immature – they’re always doing silly things., physical/emotion…

adjective

Having little knowledge or experience of a particular thing.

Usage examples:

An inexperienced driver

adjective

Having or showing a lack of skill or knowledge.

Usage examples:

An inexpert transcription from the real music

adjective

Having little skill

Usage examples:

She had made an inexpert attempt to repair the car.

adjective

(of a person or action) innocent and unsuspecting.

Usage examples:

He eyed her with wide, ingenuous eyes

adjective

Honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly

Usage examples:

It has to be said it was rather ingenuous of him to ask a complete stranger to take care of his lug…

adjective

Not guilty of a crime or offence.

Usage examples:

The prisoners were later found innocent

noun

A pure, guileless, or naive person.

Usage examples:

A young innocent abroad

adjective

(of a person) not guilty of a particular crime

Usage examples:

Innocent of he firmly believes that she is innocent of the crime.

noun

An area of short, regularly mown grass in the garden of a house or park.

Usage examples:

She was sitting in a deckchair on the lawn

noun

A fine linen or cotton fabric used for making clothes.

Usage examples:

A white lawn shirt

noun

An area of grass, esp. near a house or in a park, which is cut regularly to keep it short

noun

An open area of grassy or arable land.

Usage examples:

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea

noun

Short for local education authority.

noun

Abbreviation for local education authority: in the uk, the part of a local government that controls schools and colleges in a particular area

Usage examples:

Under these plans, private companies or individuals could take over the running of schools from leas.

adjective

Having many leaves or much foliage.

Usage examples:

A leafy glade

noun

An alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water.

Usage examples:

The tavern stocks beer, cider, perry, and mead

noun

A meadow.

Usage examples:

Gone was the safe, familiar home, set amidst a tumble of rolling, well-tilled fields dotted with fa…

noun

An alcoholic drink made from honey that was drunk in the past

adjective

(of a person or action) showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement.

Usage examples:

The rather naive young man had been totally misled

adjective

Too ready to believe someone or something, or to trust that someone’s intentions are good, esp. because of a lack of experience

Usage examples:

It was naive of her to think that she would ever get her money back.

adjective

Affected with nausea; feeling inclined to vomit.

Usage examples:

A rancid odour that made him nauseous

adjective

Feeling that you are likely to vomit, or causing this feeling

Usage examples:

He felt nauseous and dehydrated., unpleasant, nauseous odors

adjective

Produced, introduced, or discovered recently or now for the first time; not existing before.

Usage examples:

The new madonna album

adverb

Newly; recently.

Usage examples:

New-mown hay

adjective

Recently created or having started to exist recently

Usage examples:

His newest book will be out next month., she’s always coming up with new ideas., have you met carlo…

adjective

Light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment.

Usage examples:

Choose pale floral patterns for walls

verb

Become pale in one's face from shock or fear.

Usage examples:

I paled at the thought of what she might say

noun

A wooden stake or post used with others to form a fence.

Usage examples:

Get creative with a picket fence and have diagonal pales nailed to the horizontal boards.

adjective

(of a person's face) pale, typically because of poor health.

Usage examples:

His face, with its wrinkled, pallid complexion

adjective

Pale and looking unhealthy

Usage examples:

He looked pallid and bloated a few years ago.

adjective

(of land) used for the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle.

Usage examples:

Scattered pastoral farms

noun

A work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life.

Usage examples:

The story, though a pastoral, has an actual connection with the life of agricultural labour

adjective

(of a piece of art, writing, or music) having or representing the pleasant, traditional features of the countryside

Usage examples:

A pastoral scene, pastoral work/duties

noun

A folded pastry case with a savoury filling, typically of seasoned meat and vegetables.

Usage examples:

I've always associated it with school meals, so to see it put in a shortcrust pasty is an intriguin…

adjective

(of a person's face) unhealthily pale.

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A pasty complexion

adjective

(of someone’s skin) pale and unhealthy looking

Usage examples:

A pasty face

adjective

Looking pale and sick

adjective

Tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.

Usage examples:

Her pinched, sallow face

verb

Grip (something, typically a person's flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb.

Usage examples:

She pinched his cheek

adjective

(of someone’s face) thin and anxious, or (of clothing) narrow

Usage examples:

Nora was short, with a pinched face, and wore thick glasses with wire rims., her dress was pinched …

noun

A supporter or advocate of the preservation of something, especially of historic buildings and artefacts.

Usage examples:

Into this gloomy atmosphere came a national drive by preservationists and conservationists to creat…

noun

Someone who works to prevent old buildings and areas of the countryside from being destroyed or damaged

adjective

(of food) not cooked.

Usage examples:

Raw eggs

adjective

In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.

Usage examples:

Remote rural areas

adjective

In, of, or like the country (= land not in cities)

Usage examples:

She grew up in rural utah.

adjective

In or from the countryside

Usage examples:

The rural economy, the difficulties facing rural communities today are very real., rural areas., he…

adjective

(of a person's face or complexion) of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown colour.

Usage examples:

His skin was sallow and pitted

noun

A willow tree, especially one of a low-growing or shrubby kind.

Usage examples:

Sallows grow much faster, if they are planted within reach of water, or in a very moorish ground, o…

adjective

Affected by physical or mental illness.

Usage examples:

Nursing very sick children

noun

Vomit.

Usage examples:

She was busy wiping sick from the carpet

verb

Excellent.

adjective

Often ill; in poor health.

Usage examples:

She was a thin, sickly child

adjective

Weak and unhealthy

Usage examples:

He was a sickly child.

adjective

Easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty.

Usage examples:

A simple solution

noun

A medicinal herb, or a medicine made from one.

Usage examples:

The gatherers of simples

exclamation

Of very low intelligence.

noun

An expanse of short grass.

noun

An area covered with grass

adjective

Harmful to health.

Usage examples:

An unhealthy diet

adjective

Ill or appearing to be ill

Usage examples:

It’s unhealthy to eat fatty foods all the time.

adjective

Not having a polished surface.

Usage examples:

His shoes were unpolished

adjective

Something that is unpolished has not been rubbed using a piece of cloth, a brush, or a machine to clean it and make it shine

Usage examples:

Prices for rough, unpolished diamonds have increased this year., his black shoes were unpolished an…

adjective

(of a person) not officially recognized as a practitioner of a particular profession or activity through having satisfied the relevant conditions or requirements.

Usage examples:

No company would permit an unqualified accountant to audit its books

adjective

Lacking the skills and experience needed for a particular job

Usage examples:

I liked her, but she was unqualified for the job., my first attempt was an unqualified success.

adjective

Not ripe.

Usage examples:

Unripe fruit

adjective

(of food or crops) not yet ready to be eaten or collected; not yet ripe

Usage examples:

Here are some ideas for what you can do with unripe green tomatoes.

adjective

(of food) not flavoured with salt, pepper, or other spices.

Usage examples:

Her cooking was too bland and unseasoned for sara's travelled palate

adjective

Unseasoned food has not had salt, pepper, herbs, or spices added to it

Usage examples:

Add the unseasoned breadcrumbs., add salt if you use unseasoned chicken stock., he makes sculptures…

adjective

Lacking refined worldly knowledge or tastes.

Usage examples:

An unsophisticated young man

adjective

Not complicated, not educated, or without a good understanding of culture

Usage examples:

He’s an unsophisticated man, but he has been very successful in business.

adjective

Not having been trained in a particular skill.

Usage examples:

Self-styled doctors untrained in diagnosis

adjective

Never having been taught the skills for a particular job or activity

Usage examples:

Untrained staff, the notation is designed to make it easier for untrained singers to read music., t…

adjective

Not yet tested to discover quality or reliability; inexperienced.

Usage examples:

He chose two untried actors for leading roles

adjective

Not experienced, skilled, or knowledgeable.

Usage examples:

He was unversed in washington ways

adjective

Not knowing a lot about a particular thing or having experience of it

Usage examples:

The article was difficult to follow for a reader unversed in the subject.

adjective

(of countryside) green with grass or other rich vegetation.

Usage examples:

Verdant valleys

adjective

Covered with healthy green plants or grass

Usage examples:

Much of the region's verdant countryside has been destroyed in the hurricane.

adjective

Greenish.

Usage examples:

A trembling virescent light

adjective

Greenish or becoming green.

Usage examples:

Viridescent vegetation

adjective

(of a person's complexion or appearance) pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion.

Usage examples:

She was looking wan and bleary-eyed

abbreviation

Wide area network.

noun

A computer network in which the computers connected may be far apart, generally having a radius of more than 1 km.

adjective

Having a smooth, pale, translucent surface or appearance like that of wax.

Usage examples:

A canopy of waxen, creamy blooms

adjective

Resembling wax in consistency or appearance.

Usage examples:

Waxy potatoes

adjective

Angry; bad-tempered.

adjective

Having the appearance of or feeling like wax

Usage examples:

He had a waxy complexion and looked ill.

adjective

Almost white in colour

Usage examples:

Whitish-grey walls