English Dictionary

green

/ɡɹiːn/

noun

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.

The grass in the park is a vibrant shade of green.

意味（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:

意味（2）

(politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

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

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(golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.

There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens.

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(bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.

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(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.

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(Britain) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.

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A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.

o'er the smooth enamelled green

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(chiefly in the plural) 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; […]

意味（9）

Any substance or pigment of a green colour.

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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.

意味（11）

(uncountable, slang) Marijuana.

They see me, hoes actin like they seen a king / With that mean lean, smokin on that finest Cali green

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(US, slang, uncountable) Money.

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(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.

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(theater, informal) Short for 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', […]