Green vs Up - What's the difference?

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As a proper noun green

is .

As an adjective green

is (politics) of, or pertaining, to a green party.

As a verb up is

to upturn, to turn over.

green

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Having green as its color.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , 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)

to look so green and pale

# Inexperienced.

#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs.

# or unaware of obvious facts.

# Overcome with envy.

Environmentally friendly.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10

, author=Audrey Garric, volume=188, issue=22, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}

(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” Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon

# (label) Not fully roasted; half raw.

#* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)

We say the meat is green when half roasted.

# 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.

(Shakespeare)

(label) High or too high in acidity.

Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.

* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

as valid against such an old and beneficent government as againstthe greenest usurpation

(Philippines) describing something with a sexual connotation

(particle physics) Having a color charge of green.

Synonyms

* raw, unprocessed, unsmoked * tart * See also * See also

Antonyms

* (having green as its colour) nongreen, ungreen * processed, smoked, spiced * cloy, sweet

Derived 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-green

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Noun

(wikipedia green) (en noun)

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

o'er the smooth enamelled green

(mostly, in plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.

* Alexander Pope

In that soft season when descending showers / Call forth the greens , and wake the rising flowers.

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.

Synonyms

* (environmentalist) environmentalist, greenbody greenie (Australian) treehugger * (green vegetables) veg (informal) * (putting green) putting green * (surface on which bowls is played) bowling green

Derived 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-green

Verb

(en verb)

To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.

* Thomson

Great spring before greened all the year.

To become or grow green in colour.

(Tennyson)

By greening slope and singing flood. — Whittier.

To add greenspaces to (a town).

To become environmentally aware.

To make (something) environmentally friendly.

Synonyms

* engreen

Derived terms

* greenable * greening

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up

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(part of speech is dubious for many senses) (wikipedia up)

Adverb

(-)

Away from the centre of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.

I looked up and saw the airplane overhead.

(intensifier) (Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state) Thoroughly, completely.

I will mix up the puzzle pieces.

Tear up the contract.

He really messed up .

Please type up our monthly report.

To or from one's possession or consideration.

I picked up some milk on the way home.

The committee will take up your request.

She had to give up her driver's license after the accident.

North.

I will go up to New York to visit my family this weekend.

To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.

Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.

Turn it up , I can barely hear it.

Listen to your voice go up at the end of a question.

Cheer up , the weekend's almost here.

(rail transport) Traditional term for the direction leading to the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.

(sailing) Against the wind or current.

(Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.

(cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.

The bowler pitched the ball up .

(hospitality) Without additional ice.

Would you like that drink up or on ice?

(UK, academia) Towards Cambridge or Oxford.

She's going up to read Classics this September.

* 1867 , John Timbs, Lives of wits and humourists , p. 125

The son of the Dean of Lichfield was only three years older than Steele, who was a lad of only twelve, when at the age of fifteen, Addison went up to Oxford.

* 1998 , Rita McWilliams Tullberg, Women at Cambridge , p. 112

Others insinuated that women 'crowded up to Cambridge', not for the benefits of a higher education, but because of the proximity of 2,000 young men.

* 2002 , Peter Harman, Cambridge Scientific Minds , p. 79

A precocious mathematician, Babbage was already well versed in the Continental mathematical notations when he went up to Cambridge.

To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to'' or ''with .

I was up to my chin in water.

A stranger came up and asked me for directions.

To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite.

Drink up . The pub is closing.

Can you sum up your research?

The comet burned up in the atmosphere.

I need to sew up the hole in this shirt.

Aside, so as not to be in use.

to lay up''' riches; put '''up your weapons

Antonyms

* (away from the centre of the Earth) down * (louder) down * (higher in pitch) down * (towards the principal terminus) down

Derived terms

* all it's cracked up to be * back up * backup * bottoms up * bottom-up * blow up * break up * buck up * build up * burn up * clog up * cloud up * clean up * clear up * close up * crack up * cut up * double up * dress up * dry up * eat up * finish up * gang up * gang up on * go up * kick up * knock up * lash up * let up * look up * lookup * muck up * one-up * one-upmanship * open up * polish up * run up * runner up * runup * shake up * shoot up * show up * shut up * stir up * stop up * turn up * up a tree * up to * up to it * upon * upper * uppity * upto * upward * upwards * walkup * wet up * work up * write up

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Toward the top of.

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Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.

Further along (in any direction).

From south to north of

* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.

Antonyms

* (toward the top of) down

Derived terms

* give up * pick up * put up * ring up * take up * throw up * up a creek * up someone's alley

Adjective

(-)

Awake.

I can’t believe it’s 3 a.m. and you’re still up .

Finished, to an end

Time is up !

In a good mood.

I’m feeling up today.

Willing; ready.

If you are up for a trip, let’s go.

Next in a sequence.

Smith is up to bat.

Happening; new.

What is up with that project at headquarters?

Facing upwards; facing toward the top.

Put the notebook face up on the table.

Take a break and put your feet up .

Larger, greater in quantity.

Sales are up from last quarter.

Standing.

Get up and give her your seat.

On a higher level.

* 1925 , Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), , silent movie

‘The Phantom! The Phantom is up from the cellars again!’

Available; made public.

The new notices are up as of last Tuesday.

Well-informed; current.

I’m not up on the latest news. What’s going on?

(computing) Functional; working.

Is the server back up ?

(of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.

The London train is on the up line.

Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.

(bar tending) Chilled and strained into a stemmed glass.

A Cosmopolitan is typically served up .

(slang) Erect.

(of the Sun or Moon) Above the horizon, in the sky (i.e. during daytime or night-time)

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

I have said I was still in darkness, yet it was not the blackness of the last night; and looking up into the inside of the tomb above, I could see the faintest line of light at one corner, which showed the sun was up .

(slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned

* 1996 , Matthew Busby Hunt, The Sociolinguistics of Tagging and Chicano Gang Graffiti (page 71)

Being "up" means having numerous graffiti in the tagging landscape.

* 2009 , Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (pages 16-40)

Graffiti writers want their names seen by writers and others so that they will be famous. Therefore writers are very serious about any opportunity to “get up'.” The throw-up became one of the fundamental techniques for getting ' up , and thereby gaining recognition and fame.

* 2011 , Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti

From his great rooftop pieces, selected for high visibility, to his sneaky tags and fun loving stickers, he most certainly knows how to get up .

Antonyms

* (facing upwards) down * (on a higher level) down * down * (traveling towards a major terminus) down

Derived terms

* know which end is up * up and running * up for grabs * upside * upside down

Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable) The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.

Up is a good way to go.

(countable) A positive thing.

I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.

An upstairs room of a two story house.

She lives in a two-up two-down.

Usage notes

* Up is not commonly used as object of a preposition.

Antonyms

* (direction opposed to the pull of gravity) down

Derived terms

* ups and downs

Verb

(upp)

(colloquial) To increase or raise.

If we up the volume, we'll be able to make out the details.

We upped anchor and sailed away.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Marc Higginson , title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa , work=BBC Sport citation , passage=After a dreadful performance in the opening 45 minutes, they upped their game after the break and might have taken at least a point from the match.}}

(colloquial) To promote.

It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President.

To act suddenly, usually with another verb.

He just upped and quit.

He upped and punched that guy.

* 1991 , (Michael Jackson),

And she didn't leave a letter, she just upped and ran away.

Synonyms

* (increase) turn up

Derived terms

* up and * up and go * up and leave * up the ante * up the game

References

* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

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Green vs Up - What's the difference?

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