grass vs green

grass

noun
  • Marijuana. 

  • Asparagus; "sparrowgrass". 

  • Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference. 

  • The season of fresh grass; spring or summer. 

  • An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities. 

  • The surface of a mine. 

  • A lawn. 

  • Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses. 

  • Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display. 

  • Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. 

verb
  • To bring to the grass or ground; to land. 

  • To feed with grass. 

  • To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities. 

  • To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.). 

  • To cover with grass or with turf. 

  • To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc. 

green

noun
  • Marijuana. 

  • Money. 

  • Islamist. 

  • A member of a green party; an environmentalist. 

  • 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. 

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

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

  • Any substance or pigment of a green colour. 

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

  • a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement. 

  • A green light used as a signal. 

  • The surface upon which bowls is played. 

  • Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths. 

  • One of the three color charges for quarks. 

adj
  • Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union. 

  • Naive or unaware of obvious facts. 

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

  • Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent. 

  • Inexperienced. 

  • Environmentally friendly. 

  • Having a sexual connotation. 

  • Overcome with envy. 

  • Having green as its color. 

  • Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. 

  • Having a color charge of green. 

  • Sickly, unwell. 

  • Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy. 

  • High or too high in acidity. 

  • Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture. 

verb
  • To become or grow green in colour. 

  • To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.). 

  • To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. 

  • To make (something) environmentally friendly. 

  • To become environmentally aware. 

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