Word: green Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *grōniz Proto-West Germanic *grōnī Old English grēne Middle English grene English green From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow. Doublet of Gruen. See also North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Faroese grønur, Icelandic grænn. The sense of obscene, pornographic, or sexual in the Philippines is a semantic loan from Spanish verde. In other varieties of English, blue is the color instead associated with obscenity or pornography. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːn/, [ˈɡɹʷɪi̯n], /ˈɡɹin/, /ˈɡɾin/, /ˈɡɾiːn/ 1. Of a green hue. Example: He is wearing a green shirt. Example: The former flag of Libya is fully green. 2. Sickly, unwell. Labels: figuratively Example: Sally looks pretty green—is she going to be sick? Example: to look so green and pale 3. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. 4. Inexperienced. Labels: figuratively Example: John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week. Example: I might be angry[…] with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs. 5. Islamist. Labels: capitalized, sometimes Example: 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". Example: Some politicians tried to encourage this replacement of the red with a green menace. 6. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young. Labels: figuratively Example: a green manhood Example: a green wound 7. Naive or unaware of obvious facts. Labels: figuratively 8. Overcome with envy. Labels: figuratively Example: He was green with envy. 9. Environmentally friendly. Labels: figuratively Example: green energy Example: Green New Deal 10. Of a green party, environmentalism-oriented. Labels: capitalized, sometimes 11. Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture. 12. Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced. Labels: dated 13. Not fully roasted; half raw. Labels: dated Example: We say the meat is green when half roasted. 14. Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened. Labels: historical Example: 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, […] Example: […] 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. 15. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy. Example: That timber is still too green to be used. Example: The wood yard was a series of vacant lots where some mysterious person piled cords and cords of wood, which smelled sweet and green and gave out cool breaths. 16. High or too high in acidity. 17. Having a sexual connotation; indecent; lewd; risqué; obscene; profane. Labels: Philippines, informal 18. Having a color charge of green. Labels: particle 19. Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union. Example: the green pound Example: the green lira 20. Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available to read for free after an embargo period. Example: Coordinate term: gold Example: Today most open access in medicine and biomedicine is gold, but in every other field it's mostly green. 21. Of or pertaining to a part formed from compacted metal powder which has not yet undergone sintering to improve its strength. Example: The pressure required to obtain a given green density depends upon the metal powder material being pressed. Excessive pressures can present some complex problems such as punch and die fractures, slip cracks and cleavage fractures in the green part. Although high pressures are required for pressing high density shapes they should not be excessive. 22. Having a status (as correct, ready, or safe) denoted or coded by the color green. Example: Conditions all green! Standby...OK! It is time!