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GREEN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Street names for ketamine

Synonyms:

cat valium; green; honey oil; jet; K; special K; super acid; super C

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("green" is a kind of...):

Ketalar; ketamine; ketamine hydrochloride (a general anesthetic and tranquilizer (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly; used mainly by veterinarians or for minor surgery with geriatric or pediatric patients; taken in large doses it causes hallucinations similar to those associated with the use of PCP)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

Synonyms:

green; greenness; viridity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("green" is a kind of...):

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "green"):

greenishness (the property of being somewhat green)

sea green (the property of a moderate green color resembling the waters of the sea)

sage green (the color of sage leaves)

bottle green (dark to moderate or greyish green)

chrome green (a brilliant green color)

emerald (the green color of an emerald)

olive-green; olive green (a color that is lighter and greener than olive)

chartreuse; Paris green; pea green; yellow green; yellowish green (a shade of green tinged with yellow)

blue green; bluish green; teal (a blue-green color or pigment)

jade; jade green (a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green)

Derivation:

green (turn or become green)

green (of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

Synonyms:

green; greens; leafy vegetable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("green" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "green"):

spinach (dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads)

French sorrel (greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads)

common sorrel; sorrel (large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces)

turnip greens (tender leaves of young white turnips)

wild spinach (leafy greens collected from the wild and used as a substitute for spinach)

lamb's-quarter; pigweed; wild spinach (leaves collected from the wild)

dandelion green (edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine)

salad green; salad greens (greens suitable for eating uncooked as in salads)

chard; leaf beet; spinach beet; Swiss chard (long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves)

beet green (young leaves of the beetroot)

sprout (a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed))

chop-suey greens (succulent and aromatic young dark green leaves used in Chinese and Vietnamese and Japanese cooking)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course

Example:

the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker

Synonyms:

green; putting green; putting surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("green" is a kind of...):

land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))

Holonyms ("green" is a part of...):

golf course; links course (course consisting of a large landscaped area for playing golf)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

Example:

they went for a walk in the park

Synonyms:

common; commons; green; park

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("green" is a kind of...):

parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "green"):

amusement park; funfair; pleasure ground (a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement)

village green (a village park consisting of a plot of grassy land)

Instance hyponyms:

Central Park (a large park in Manhattan)

Holonyms ("green" is a part of...):

populated area; urban area (a geographical area constituting a city or town)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River

Synonyms:

Green; Green River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Green" is a part of...):

Beehive State; Mormon State; UT; Ut.; Utah (a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young)

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)

Sense 7

Meaning:

An environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Green" is a kind of...):

conservationist; environmentalist (someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution)

Holonyms ("Green" is a member of...):

Green Party (an environmentalist political party)

Derivation:

green (concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party)

Sense 8

Meaning:

United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)

Synonyms:

Green; William Green

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

labor leader (a leader of a labor movement)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass

Example:

green paint

Synonyms:

dark-green; green; greenish; light-green

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

green; greenness (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not fully developed or mature; not ripe

Example:

green wood

Synonyms:

green; immature; unripe; unripened

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unaged (not subjected to an aging process)

Antonym:

ripe (fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used)

Derivation:

greenness (the state of not being ripe)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Naive and easily deceived or tricked

Example:

at that early age she had been gullible and in love

Synonyms:

fleeceable; green; gullible

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

naif; naive (marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Looking pale and unhealthy

Example:

green around the gills

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Green Party (an environmentalist political party)

Derivation:

Green (an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn or become green

Example:

The trees are greening

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "green" is one way to...):

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

green (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)

greenery (green foliage)

greening (the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A green, crystalline, solid dye that is one of the major components of magenta.

(Basic Fuchsin, NCI Thesaurus)

“When you take a photograph, the information stored in pixels is generally limited to just three components – red, green, and blue,” said co-first author Tom Albrow-Owen.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

Green algae also absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

Grasses green up in the rainy season.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

Results showed adults who lived near green spaces were significantly less likely to die young from any cause, including heart disease, cancer and dementia.

(People Living Near Parks in Cities Less Likely to Face Early Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Immigration, passport, visa, and green card matters come under this same ninth house because of its link to international travel and relationships.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We walked a little further, and then went in and sat for a while in the Green Park.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But I struggled upward, and at last I reached a ledge several feet deep and covered with soft green moss, where I could lie unseen, in the most perfect comfort.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could see his black figure clearly outlined against the green behind him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)