green

Betekenis

Adj

1. Of a green hue; with a hue which is of grass or leaves.
2. Sickly, unwell.
3. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
4. Inexperienced.
5. Islamist.
6. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
7. Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
8. Overcome with envy.
9. Environmentally friendly.
10. Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
11. Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
12. Not fully roasted; half raw.
13. Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
14. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
15. High or too high in acidity.
16. Having a sexual connotation.
17. Having a color charge of green.
18. Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
19. Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available for to read for free after an embargo period.

Noun

1. The colour of grass and leaves; a primary additive colour midway between yellow and cyan which is evoked by light between roughly roughly 495–570 nm.
2. A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
3. A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
4. The surface upon which bowls is played.
5. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
6. a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
7. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
8. 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.
11. (slang) Marijuana.
12. (slang) Money.
13. One of the three color charges for quarks.
14. (informal) Short for green room.

Verb

1. To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
2. To become or grow green in colour.
3. To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
4. To become environmentally aware.
5. To make (something) environmentally friendly.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɡɹiːn/

Etymologie

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Germanic *-į̄
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
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.
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, Icelandic grænn.

Zinnen

Red and green bell peppers are high in para-coumaric acid .

Rode en groene paprika's bevatten veel para-coumarinezuur.