Definitions for greening

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IPA: /ˈgri nɪŋ/

Greening is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in greening (eegginnr).

Definitions for greening

noun

1. any variety of apple whose skin is green when ripe.
2. the return or revival of youthful characteristics:
3. a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
4. Art. a secondary color that has been formed by the mixture of blue and yellow pigments.
5. green coloring matter, as paint or dye.
6. green material or clothing:
7. greens. fresh leaves or branches of trees, shrubs, etc., used for decoration; wreaths. the leaves and stems of plants, as spinach, lettuce, or cabbage, used for food. a blue-green uniform of the U.S. Army.
8. grassy land; a plot of grassy ground.
9. a piece of grassy ground constituting a town or village common.
10. Also called putting green. Golf. the area of closely cropped grass surrounding each hole.
11. bowling green.
12. a shooting range for archery.
13. Informal. green light (def 1).
14. Slang. money; greenbacks (usually preceded by the):
15. (initial capital letter) a member of the Green party (in Germany).

Idioms

1. read the green, to inspect a golf green, analyzing its slope and surface, so as to determine the difficulties to be encountered when putting.

adjective

1. of the color of growing foliage, between yellow and blue in the spectrum:
2. covered with herbage or foliage; verdant:
3. characterized by the presence of verdure.
4. made of green vegetables, as lettuce, spinach, endive, or chicory:
5. not fully developed or perfected in growth or condition; unripe; not properly aged:
6. unseasoned; not dried or cured:
7. immature in age or judgment; untrained; inexperienced:
8. simple; unsophisticated; gullible; easily fooled.
9. fresh, recent, or new:
10. having a sickly appearance; pale; wan:
11. full of life and vigor; young:
12. environmentally sound or beneficial:
13. (of wine) having a flavor that is raw, harsh, and acid, due especially to a lack of maturity.
14. freshly slaughtered or still raw:
15. not fired, as bricks or pottery.
16. (of cement or mortar) freshly set and not completely hardened.
17. Foundry. (of sand) sufficiently moist to form a compact lining for a mold without further treatment. (of a casting) as it comes from the mold. (of a powder, in powder metallurgy) unsintered.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to become or make green.
2. Informal. to restore the vitality of:

Origin of greening

First recorded in 1590-1600; green + -ing¹

Examples for greening

It was spring, the time of greening ranges and the coming of new calves.

I loved the greening of Nature, and the yellowing of her harvest.

But in this age of the greening of the U.S. auto fleet, so does smart engineering and pinching pennies.

In the first place, the letter you sent me signed 'greening' was clearly a forgery.

In the time of the greening, even the Korrigans are unseen of walkers in the dusk.

It was a distinction which greening did not feel like yielding.

Mrs. greening had told her when she came that Isom was killed.

As temperatures rise, the Sahara and other dry areas are greening on the edges.

There are some obvious reasons for the greening of the car fleet.

After greening the cucumbers, put them in plain vinegar for a few days.