crook vs green

crook

adj
  • Ill, sick. 

  • Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard. 

  • Annoyed, angry; upset. 

noun
  • A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 

  • A pothook. 

  • A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything). 

  • A bishop's standard staff of office. 

  • A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure. 

  • An artifice; a trick; a contrivance. 

  • A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal. 

  • A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds. 

  • A bending of the knee; a genuflection. 

verb
  • To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. 

  • To become bent or hooked. 

  • To bend, or form into a hook. 

green

adj
  • Sickly, unwell. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • Marijuana. 

  • 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. 

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