Room vs Green - What's the difference?
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(dialectal, or, obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
(nautical) Off from the wind.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) I:
* 1748 , (Samuel Richardson), (Clarissa) :
(label) Space for'' something, or ''to carry out an activity.
* 2010 , Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian , 27 Aug 2010:
(label) A particular portion of space.
* (rfdate) (Thomas Overbury) (c.1581-1613)
* (rfdate) Bible, (w) xiv. 8
* (rfdate) (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* 2010 , Roger Bootle, The Telegraph , 12 Sep 2010:
(label) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
(label) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) :
* , chapter=10
, title= (label) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
* , chapter=6
, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 (label) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
(label) An area for working in a coal mine. (jump)
(label) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. (jump)
Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
* (rfdate) Bible, (w) ii. 22
* (rfdate) (William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
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)
# Inexperienced.
#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
# 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= (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 a noun room
is joy, happiness.As a proper noun green is
.As an adjective green is
(politics) of, or pertaining, to a green party.room
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) roum, rom, rum, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) rome, from (etyl) .Adverb
(en adverb)Etymology 3
From (etyl) roum, from (etyl) through Indo-European. More at (l). Apparently an exception to the , which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation , but /a?/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English.Noun
(en noun)- Thou lorde whiche knowest the hertes of all men, shewe whether thou hast chosen of these two, that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion, and apostleshippe from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he myght goo to his awne place.
- Nor shalt thou give me room to doubt whether it be necessity or love, that inspires this condescending impulse.
- He explains they have enough room to stand and lie down, points out the "little cup to brush our teeth", and the place where they pray.
- If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse.
- When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room .
- There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance.
- There are major disagreements within the Coalition and politicians always want to retain room for manoeuvre.
- Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards she got up and walked about the room .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room', at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a '''room''' like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a ' room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room . I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
- When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod.
- Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.
- Let Bianca take her sister's room .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "room")Synonyms
* (jump) elbow room, legroom, space * (jump) chamber, quarters * (jump) chamber * See alsoDerived terms
* art room * AV room * backroom * ballroom * bathroom * bedroom * billiards room * blue room * boardroom * boiler room * box-room * break room * changing room * chat room * classroom * clean my room * cold room * common room * computer room * control room * copy room * courtroom * cutting room * darkroom * delivery room * dining room * discussion room * display room * dormroom * dressing room * elbow room * elephant in the room * embalming room * emergency room * engine room * examination room * fitting room * Florida room * front room * game room * get a room * giftwrapping room * green room * guest room * headroom * inner room * in the room * lamp room * laundry room * legroom * living room * locker room * lunchroom * map room * meditation room * meeting room * mud room * music room * need a room * newsroom * no room at the inn * operating room * padded room * panic room * plant room * play room * pool room * powder room * prep room * press room * private room * pump room * reading room * ready room * recording room * reptile room * romper room * room and board * room at the top * room for abuse * room for apology * room for dessert * room for error * room for improvement * room service * room to breathe * room to grow * room to roam * room with a view * roommate * roomie * roomy * rubber room * rumpus room * save room * school room * science room * screening room * sewing room * showroom * sitting room * sound room * spare room * standing room only * steam room * storeroom * strong room * study room * sunroom * the other room * the upper room * upstairs room * viewing room * waiting room * war room * washroom * weightroom * wiggle room * work the room * workroomVerb
- Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.
Derived terms
* roomer * room together * roomyStatistics
*External links
* (wikipedia "room")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.}}
Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon
- 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.
