green vs paddock

green

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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. 

paddock

noun
  • A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals. 

  • An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race. 

  • A field on which a game is played; a playing field. 

  • A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep. 

  • A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc. 

  • A toad. 

  • An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races. 

  • A frog. 

  • A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items. 

  • A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person. 

verb
  • To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock. 

  • To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit). 

  • To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1 or 2.4); hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture. 

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