platinum vs straw

platinum

noun
  • A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal. 

  • A single or album that has achieved platinum sales, i.e. over 1 million or 2 million. 

  • A platinum-based drug: a platin. 

  • The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value. 

adj
  • Of a musical recording that has sold over one million copies (for singles), or two million (for albums). 

  • Very expensive, or of very high quality 

  • Of a whitish grey colour, like that of the metal. 

verb
  • to reach platinum level in a game 

straw

noun
  • A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. 

  • A dried stalk of a cereal plant. 

  • Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions. 

  • Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing. 

  • A drinking straw. 

verb
  • To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost. 

adj
  • Made of straw. 

  • Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. 

  • Imaginary, but presented as real. 

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