Engels Woord van de dag

green

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Engels > Engels

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.

Nederlands > Engels

groen

1. adj. green

De bomen worden in de lente groen. - The trees turn green in the spring.

2. adj. (politics) green, relating to green parties or green politics

Ze stemde op de groene partij vanwege hun beleid over klimaatverandering. - She voted for the green party because of their policy on climate change.

De stad heeft groene initiatieven gelanceerd om de CO2-uitstoot te verminderen. - The city has launched green initiatives to reduce carbon emissions.