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Greenware vs Greenward - What's the difference?

greenware | greenward |

As a noun greenware

is (ceramics|usually|uncountable) pottery that has been shaped but not yet fired, especially while it is drying prior to being fireable.

As an adverb greenward is

towards an ecologically friendly situation.

greenware

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (ceramics, usually, uncountable) Pottery that has been shaped but not yet fired, especially while it is drying prior to being fireable.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1991 , author=Irene Wittig , title=The Clay Canvas , isbn=080198016X citation , page=9 , passage=Greenware needs to be cleaned and then fired to bisque.}}
  • (ceramics, rare) A form of Chinese pottery having a green glaze.
  • * {{quote-book,
    • year=1983 , author=Yaw Lu and Mary Tregear , title=Song Ceramics , isbn=9971837269 citation , page=5 , passage=Other kilns in Shaanxi and Henan and other provinces in the North, like Shanxi and Shandong, also produced greenwares during the Song period.}}

    Related terms

    * earthenware * greenbody * stoneware

    greenward

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Towards an ecologically friendly situation.
  • * 2006 , Mike Davis, City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles (page 202)
    • Yet the Bradley administration - moving ever greenward as it bailed itself out from one political corruption crisis to another - continued in theory to commit itself to tougher growth-management and conservationist positions.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 20, author=Charles Siebert, title=Falling Down Green, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But it was in the immediate numinous aftermath of that predawn visit that I first saw the next, final stage of our haplessly greenward collapse. }}