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green

Takođe pogledajte: gréén, Green, i Green.
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Engleski Wikipedia has an article on:
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Various shades of green

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Srednji Engleski grene, from Stari Engleski grēne, grœ̄ne, grœ̄ni (“green”), from Pra-Zapadno Germanski *grōnī, from Pra-Germanski *grōniz (compare North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Holandski groen, Low German grön, green, greun, Nemački grün, Danski and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Švedski grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow.

Adjective

green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)

  1. Having green as its color.
    Sinonimi: verdant, vert
    The former flag of Libya is fully green.
  2. (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
    Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?
  3. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
  4. (figurative) Inexperienced.
    Sinonim: Thesaurus:inexperienced
    John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
    • Šablon:RQ:Scott Peveril of the Peak
    • 2008, Richard R. Rust, Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada (page 91)
      He acted like a green racehorse, plunging over his jumps, tearing to the front of the field of riders.
  5. (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
    Sinonim: Thesaurus:gullible
  6. (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
    He was green with envy.
  7. (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
    Sinonim: eco-friendly
    green energy
    Green New Deal
    • 2013 maj 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly‎[2], volume 188, number 22, page 30:
      As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.
    • 2021 maj 18, Jack Ewing, Lauren Hirsch, “The Big Money Is Going Vegan”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN:
      Oatly said it hoped Blackstone’s investment would inspire other private equity firms “to steer their collective worth of $4 trillion into green investments.”
  8. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
  9. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.[1]
    Sinonimi: raw, unprocessed, unsmoked
  10. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
  11. (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
    • 1947, Theatre Catalog (volume 5, page 570)
      Following initial drying of film in a motion picture laboratory (after treatment in a hardening-fixing bath) the gelatin structure of an emulsion contracts and is permanently changed. The hardening action still continues for a time as a further small amount of residual moisture is given up. While traces of excess moisture remain, the emulsion is "green," relatively soft, […]
    • 1961, American Cinematographer (volume 42, page 618)
      […] attaching pre-photographed and pre-printed footage of a focusing chart to daily film footage without taking into consideration that such film may be worn or dried out and therefore, in its plane of best focus, would not be identical to that of the green film of the daily rushes.
  12. 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.
  13. (wine) High or too high in acidity.
    Sinonim: tart
  14. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
    Sinonim: Thesaurus:new
    a green manhood
    a green wound
  15. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
  16. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
  17. Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
    the green pound
    the green lira
Antonyms
Derived terms

Pages starting with "green".

Descendants
  • Bislama: grin
  • → Marshallese: kūriin
  • Tok Pisin: grin
Translations
See green/translations § Adjective.
References
  1. ↑ “unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency” Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon

Etymology 2

From Srednji Engleski grene, from the adjective (see above).

Noun

 
Engleski Wikipedia has an article on:
Vikipedija

green (countable and uncountable, plural greens)

  1. 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; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
    green colour:  
    • 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN, page 81:
      In a period of increasing industrialization and the palette of grey, brown, and black that came to dominate the modern city, greens provided a refreshing contrast, seemingly bringing the outdoors in.
  2. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
    Sinonimi: environmentalist, (Australian) greenie, tree hugger, treehugger
    Hyponymi: blue green, red green
    • 2013, Joe Smith, What Do Greens Believe?, →ISBN, page 62:
      How have greens sought to map an ecologically and socially sustainable future for society?
  3. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
    • 2010, Dan Jenkins, Fairways and Greens, →ISBN, page 233:
      There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens.
  4. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
    Sinonim: bowling green
  5. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
  6. (British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
  7. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
  8. (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
  9. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
  10. A green light used as a signal.
    • 1992, "How to Avoid the Most Embarrassing of Pilot Errors", in Flying Magazine (volume 119, number 6, page 94)
      To the casual cockpit observer, landing-gear operation appears to be one of the most elementary tasks we have to perform. Either the switch is up and the lights are out, or it's down and there are three greens.
  11. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
    Sinonim: Thesaurus:marijuana
    • 2005, “Drive Slow”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West:
      They see me, hoes actin like they seen a king / With that mean lean, smokin on that finest Cali green
  12. (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
  13. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
  14. (theater, informal) Short for green room.
    • 2016, Bruce Montague, The Book of Shakespearian Useless Information
      Today, actors say off-handedly, 'See you on the green' or 'I'll be in the green room' without giving the expressions much thought. In Shakespeare's day, actors changed behind the stage in the 'tiring house', […]
Derived terms
Place names which include "Green"
Descendants
Translations
See green/translations § Noun.

Etymology 3

From Srednji Engleski grenen, from Stari Engleski grēnian (“to become green, flourish”), from Pra-Germanski *grōnijōną, *grōnijaną (“to become green”), from the adjective (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian gräinje, German Low German grönen, Nemački grünen, Švedski gröna, Icelandic gróna.

Verb

green (third-person singular simple present greens, present participle greening, simple past and past participle greened)

  1. (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
    • Šablon:RQ:Thomson Spring
      Great spring before greened all the year.
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30:
      Out of that tub had come the day before - Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands.
  2. To become or grow green in colour.
  3. (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
    • 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)
      The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.
  4. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
  5. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
See green/translations § Verb.

See also

Boje in Engleski · colors, colours (layout · text)
     white      gray, grey      black      brown
             pink              red ; crimson              orange              yellow ; cream
             lime              green                           cyan ; teal
             azure, sky blue              blue              violet ; indigo              magenta ; purple

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

From Engleski green.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. (slang, golf) green (a putting green; the part of a golf course near the hole)

Usage notes

Although the official term for the green is jamkoviště, it is rarely used in practice. Instead, unofficial Czech versions of the English word green, variously spelled green, grýn, and grín, are used in practice.[1]

Declension

Deklinacija
singular plural
nominative green greeny
genitive greenu greenů
dative greenu greenům
accusative green greeny
vocative greene greeny
locative greenu greenech
instrumental greenem greeny

References

  1. ↑ “Golf Club Hradec Králové, Jan. 6, 2010”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], 2010 januar 6 (last accessed), archived from the original on 16 May 2010

Danish

Etymology

From Engleski green.

Noun

green c (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greens, definite plural greenene)

  1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from North Germanic, from Old Norse grǫn.

Pronunciation

Noun

green m (plural grenen)

  1. (obsolete) Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris
    Sinonim: grove den
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Engleski green.

Pronunciation

Noun

green m (plural greens)

  1. (golf) green, putting green

Francuski

Noun

green m (plural greens)

  1. (golf) green

German Low German

Alternative forms

Adjective

green

  1. (Low Prussian) green

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Stari Francuski greer; equivalent to Afrikans.

Pronunciation

Verb

green (Late Middle English)

  1. To come to an understanding or agreement.
  2. (rare) To make a compact of reconciliation.

Conjugation

Šablon:enm-conj-wk

Descendants

  • Engleski: gree (obsolete)
  • Škotski: gree

References

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian grēne, from Pra-Zapadno Germanski *grōnī, from Pra-Germanski *grōniz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

green

  1. (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) green

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greener, definite plural greenene)

  1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

green m (definite singular greenen, indefinite plural greenar, definite plural greenane)

  1. (golf) a green or putting green (the closely mown area surrounding each hole on a golf course)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

green c

  1. (golf) a green, putting green (the closely mown area around a hole on a golf course)

Declension

Declension of green 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative green greenen greener greenerna
Genitive greens greenens greeners greenernas

Anagrams

Yola

Etymology

From Srednji Engleski grene, from Stari Engleski grēne, from Pra-Zapadno Germanski *grōnī.

Adjective

green

  1. green
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10:
      Ee green.
      In the green.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88
Boje in Yola · [Term?] (layout · text)
     whit, baun      gry      bhlock, blaak     
             rowse              reed              yulloureed              yullou, buee
             *leem green              green              *meente              blúegreen
             *asure              blúe                           purple
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