Dark vs Green - What's the difference?
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Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
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#Deprived of sight; blind.
#*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
#*:He was, I think, at this time quite dark , and so had been for some years.
(lb) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
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*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
Hidden, secret, obscure.
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*:Meantime we shall express our darker purpose
#Not clear to the understanding; not easily through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
#*1594- , (Richard Hooker),
#*:What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
#*(w) (1819-1885)
#*:the dark problems of existence
# Having racing capability not widely known.
Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Left him at large to his own dark designs.
Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
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*:A deep melancholy took possession of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.
*(Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
*:There is, in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
*Sir (1614-1669)
*:The age wherein he lived was dark , but he / Could not want light who taught the world to see.
*(Arthur Hallam) (1811-1833)
*:The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.
With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either.
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A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
* Shakespeare
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* Shakespeare
* John Locke
(uncountable) Nightfall.
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
* Dryden
Having green as its color.
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, passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
(label) Of people.
# Sickly, unwell.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Inexperienced.
#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
# or unaware of obvious facts.
# Overcome with envy.
Environmentally friendly.
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, title= (label) Of things.
# (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
# (label) Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.“unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency”
# (label) Not fully roasted; half raw.
#* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
# Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
# Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
(label) High or too high in acidity.
Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
(Philippines) describing something with a sexual connotation
(particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
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.
(politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
(golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
(bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
(British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
* Milton
(mostly, in plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
* Alexander Pope
Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
(British, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
(US, uncountable) Money.
(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
* Thomson
To become or grow green in colour.
To add greenspaces to (a town).
To become environmentally aware.
To make (something) environmentally friendly.
As adjectives the difference between dark and green
is that dark is having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light while green is (politics) of, or pertaining, to a green party.As a noun dark
is a complete or (more often) partial absence of light.As a proper noun green is
.dark
English
Adjective
(er)Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark , look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Synonyms
* (relative lack of light) dim, gloomy, see also * (sinister or secret) hidden, secret, sinister, see also * (without morals) malign, sinister, see also * (of colour) deep, see also * (conducive to hopelessness) hopeless, negative, pessimistic * (lacking progress) unenlightenedAntonyms
* (relative lack of light) bright, light, lit * (of colour) bright, light, paleDerived terms
* dark energy * dark flow * dark-haired * dark horse * dark matter * dark-skinnedNoun
(en-noun)- Here stood he in the dark , his sharp sword out.
citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark , look for specks of light in the villages.}}
- Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark .
- Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark , and as void of knowledge, as before.
- The lights may serve for a repose to the darks', and the ' darks to the lights.
Derived terms
* after dark * all cats are gray in the dark * at dark * bedarken * before dark * Dark Ages * dark blue * dark brown * dark chocolate * dark comedy * Dark Continent * dark current * dark elves * darken * dark energy * darkey * dark fiber * darkfield * dark field * dark figure * darkful * dark glasses * dark horse * dark house * darkish * dark lantern * darkle * dark matter * dark meat * dark nebula * darkness * dark reaction * dark red * darkroom * dark-room * dark room * dark-skinned * dark side * darksome * dark space * dark star * darky * endark * oh dark thirty * pitch-dark * shot in the dark * whistle in the darkSee also
* black * shadowStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----green
English
Adjective
(er)- to look so green and pale
- I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs.
Urban canopies let nature bloom, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}
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- We say the meat is green when half roasted.
- (Shakespeare)
- as valid against such an old and beneficent government as againstthe greenest usurpation
Synonyms
* raw, unprocessed, unsmoked * tart * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (having green as its colour) nongreen, ungreen * processed, smoked, spiced * cloy, sweetDerived terms
(green) * blue-green * * Board of Green Cloth * common green lacewing * engreen * evergreen * go green * the grass is always greener on the other side * greater green leafbird * great green macaw * green accounting * green acres * greenage * green alga * green and pale, green and wan * green apron * green about the gills, green around the gills * green arrow * green ash * green audit * greenback * green-backed firecrown * green bag, green-bag * green baize * green ban * green bass * (Green Bay) * green bean * green-bed * (Greenbelt) * green belt, greenbelt * Green Beret * green bice * green-bind * green bird * green-black * green blights * green-blue * green-bone, greenbone * green-bottle, greenbottle, greenbottle fly * green-book * green box * green brass * green brier, greenbrier * green broom * green bug * green burial * green butter * green card * green-charge * green cheese * green Christmas * green cloth, greencloth * green coat, green-coat * green-cod * green coffer * green con * green copperas * green cormorant * green corn * green crab * green crop * green cross * Green Cross Code * green curtain * green diallage * green dolphin * green dragon * green drake * green drops * green earth * green ebony * greened * green eel * green endive * green energy * greener * Green Erin * greenery * greenery-yallery * green-eyed * green fallow * green fat * greenfeed * green fever * green field, greenfield, green fields * green fillet * greenfinch * green fingers * green-finned * green fire * green-fish * greenflag * green flash * green fluorescent protein * green-fly, greenfly * green frog * green fund * greengage * green gate * green gill * green-gill, green-gilled * green ginger * green gland * green glass * Green Goddess * green gold * green-gold * green-golden * green goods * green goose * green gown * green grasshopper * green-gray, green-grey * green grosbeak * green hand, greenhand * green hastings * green head, greenhead * greenheart * green heron * greenhew * green hide, green-hide, greenhide * greenhorn * greenie * green in earth * greening * green investing * green iodide of mercury * green iron ore * greenish * the Green Island, the Green Isle * Green Jackets * green jaundice * green-jerkin * green jersey * greenkin * green label * green labeling, green labelling * Greenland * green laver * green lead ore * green leaf lettuce * green leech * green leek, green-leek, greek-leek parrot * greenlet * green light * Green Line * greenling * green linnet * Green Linnets * green lizard * green looper * green-louse * greenly * * green mamba * green man * greenman * greenmans * green manure * green marble * greenmarket * green mineral * green monkey * (Green Mountains) * Green Mountain State * green mustard * greenness * green oak * green old age * green onion * green out * green oyster * green paper * Green Party * green party * (Greenpeace) * green-peak, green-peek * green pea * green pepper * green peril * green pigeon * green-plot * green plover * green-pollack * green pound * green racer * green ray * green revolution * green ribbon * (Green River) * Green River Ordinance * green road * green rod * green room, green-room, greenroom * green rose * green rushes * green salad * green salt of Magnus * green-salted * green sand * green-sand, greensand * green sauce, greensauce * green sea * green-seal * green seaweed * greenshank * green-shaving * greenship * greenshoe option * green sickness, green-sickness, greensickness * green-side * green-sleeves * (Greensleeves) * green slip * green sloke * green snake * green snow * green soap * greensome * green-soil * green space * greenspeak * green-staff * greenstick fracture * green stocks * green-stone, greenstone * greenstrip * Green Striper * green-stuff, greenstuff * green swallow * greensward * green syrup * green table * green-tail * greentailing * green tar * green tea * greenth * green thumb * green top * green-tree ant * green turtle * green 'un * green vitriol * greenware * green water * greenwash * greenwashing * green wax, greenwax * green way, greenway * greenweed * green-wellie * green-wing * green-winged * green withe * green with envy * greenwood * green woodpecker * green-wort * greeny * green-yard, greenyard * green-yellow * in green * in the green tree * keep the bones green * lesser green leafbird * little green man * not as green as one is cabbage-looking * red-and-green macaw * sengreen * silgreen, sillgreen * something green in one's eye * still-green * ungreen * verigreen * yellow-greenReferences
Noun
(wikipedia green) (en noun)- o'er the smooth enamelled green
- In that soft season when descending showers / Call forth the greens , and wake the rising flowers.
Synonyms
* (environmentalist) environmentalist, greenbody greenie (Australian) treehugger * (green vegetables) veg (informal) * (putting green) putting green * (surface on which bowls is played) bowling greenDerived terms
* advanced green * almond green, almond-green * antigreen * apple green, apple-green * ay-green * Berlin green * Bermuda green, Bermuda-green * bice green * bladder green, bladder-green * bleaching green, bleaching-green * bottle green, bottle-green * bowling green, bowling-green * bronze green, bronze-green * Brunswick green Brunswick-green * cedar green, cedar-green * celandine green, celandine-green * chrome green, chrome-green * crown green * deep green, deep-green * emerald green, emerald-green * fair green * forest green, forest-green * gaudy-green * grape green, grape-green * grass green, grass-green * green-blind * green fee, greens fee * greengrocer * greenhouse * green-keeper, greenkeeper, greenskeeper * greenless * greenside * greensman * greenwash * green with envy * Gretna Green * Guignet's green * Hungary green, Hungary-green * hunter green, hunter's green * in the green * Jack-in-the-green * jade green, jade-green * jungle green, jungle-green * kelly green, kelly-green * Kendal green * Kensal Green * leek green, leek-green * lettuce green, lettuce-green * light green, light-green * lime green, lime-green * Lincoln green * little green man * long green * Marina green, Marina-green * mineral green, mineral-green * mitis green * Monastral Green * mondegreen * moss green, moss-green * mountain green, mountain-green * Nile green, Nile-green * olive green, olive-green * on the green * overgreen * Paris green * parrot green, parrot-green * pea green, pea-green * pistachio green, pistachio-green * Prussian green, Prussian-green * putting green, putting-green * red-green colorblindness, red-green colour blindness * regreen * RGB * rifle-green * rub of the green, rub on the green * Russian green, Russian-green * sage-green * sap-green * Saxon green, Saxon-green * Scheele's green * schweinfurt green * sea green, sea-green * see any green in one's eye * Spanish green, Spanish-green * spring green * town green * turquoise green, turquoise-green * Veronese green, Veronese-green * Vienna green * village green * vine-leaf green, vine-leaf-greenVerb
(en verb)- Great spring before greened all the year.
- (Tennyson)
- By greening slope and singing flood. — Whittier.