green vs wet

green

adj
  • Inexperienced. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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. 

wet

adj
  • Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie. 

  • Permitting alcoholic beverages. 

  • Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust. 

  • Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce. 

  • Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance. 

  • Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water. 

  • Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed. 

  • Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied. 

  • Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter. 

  • Of weather or a time period: rainy. 

  • Involving assassination or "wet work". 

  • Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid. 

  • Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water. 

  • Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character. 

  • Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions. 

verb
  • to wet the baby's head 

  • To kill or seriously injure. 

  • To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate. 

  • To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination. 

  • To make or become wet. 

  • To cover or impregnate with liquid. 

  • To celebrate by drinking alcohol. 

noun
  • Rainy season. (often capitalized) 

  • A tyre for use in wet weather. 

  • Rainy weather. 

  • Liquid or moisture. 

  • An alcoholic drink. 

  • One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition. 

  • A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie. 

  • A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. 

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