Le mot anglais du jour

green

vert

Définitions

anglais > français
green
1. adj. Vert, de la couleur verte.
Grass is green.
L'herbe est verte.
2. adj. Naïf, avec peu d'expérience.
He's still green. Give him time to learn.
Il est encore inexpérimenté. Laisse-lui le temps d'apprendre.
3. adj. Vert, manquant de maturité.
4. adj. Relatif à l'écologie, vert.
5. adj. (Figuré) Jaloux.
She was green with envy.
Elle était verte de jalousie.
6. n. Couleur verte.
Green is the colo(u)r of grass.
Le vert est la couleur de l'herbe.
7. n. (Populaire) (Au pluriel) (UK) Légume vert.
Eat your greens. They're good for you.
Mange tes légumes verts. C'est bon pour toi.
8. n. Gazon.
Everybody was planning to meet on the village green that evening.
Tout le monde prévoyait de se retrouver sur le gazon du village ce soir-là.
9. n. (Golf) Green, zone d'un parcours de golf.
The golfer swung, and the ball landed just short of the green.
Le golfeur frappa, et la balle atterrit juste avant le gazon. (doute;meilleure traduction pour swung)
anglais > anglais
green
1. adj. Having green as its color.
The former flag of Libya is fully green.
2. adj. (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick?
3. adj. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
4. adj. (figurative, of people) Inexperienced.
John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
5. adj. (figurative, of people) Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.
6. adj. (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
He was green with envy.
7. adj. (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
8. adj. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
9. adj. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.“unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency”
10. adj. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
11. adj. 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.
12. adj. (wine) High or too high in acidity.
13. adj. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
a green manhood; a green wound
14. adj. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
15. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
16. n. 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
(color panel, 008000)
17. n. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
18. n. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
19. n. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
20. n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
21. n. (British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
22. n. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
23. n. (mostly, in plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
24. n. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
25. n. (UK, slang) marijuana.
26. n. (US, slang) Money.
27. n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
28. v. To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
29. v. To become or grow green in colour.
30. v. To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
31. v. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
32. v. To make (something) environmentally friendly.
français > anglais
vert
1. n-m. green
2. adj. green