Green

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.

   “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. isim A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

   “How have greens sought to map an ecologically and socially sustainable future for society?”

3. isim A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.

   “I gave him my putter earlier this year in Oklahoma City. He was having trouble on the greens and I said, ‘Here, try this.’ He did, and he’s been going great guns ever since.”

4. isim The surface upon which bowls is played.
5. isim One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
6. isim A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
7. isim A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.

   “o'er the smooth enamelled green”

8. isim Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.

   “In that ſoft Seaſon vvhen deſcending Shovvers / Call forth the Greens, and vvake the riſing Flovvers; […]”

9. isim Any substance or pigment of a green color.
10. isim A green light used as a signal.

    “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. isim Marijuana.

    “You're better off smoking the green instead cause it don't blim-burn and it's better for your head.”

12. isim Money.
13. isim One of the three color charges for quarks.
14. isim Ellipsis of green room.

    “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', […]”

15. sıfat Of a green hue.

    “He is wearing a green shirt.”

16. sıfat Sickly, unwell.

    “Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick?”

17. sıfat Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
18. sıfat Inexperienced.

    “John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.”

19. sıfat Islamist.

    “In its most extreme formulation, this vision has devolved into a caricature of Islam as the "Green Peril" (green is the colour of Islam) advancing across the world stage, an image that echoes both the "Red Menace" of Cold War discourse and anti-Asian polemics about the "Yellow Peril".”

20. sıfat Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young.

    “a green manhood”

21. sıfat Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
22. sıfat Overcome with envy.

    “He was green with envy.”

23. sıfat Environmentally friendly.

    “green energy”

24. sıfat Of a green party, environmentalism-oriented.
25. sıfat Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
26. sıfat Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
27. sıfat Not fully roasted; half raw.

    “We say the meat is green when half roasted.”

28. sıfat Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.

    “[…] 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.”

29. sıfat 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.”

30. sıfat High or too high in acidity.