Silver vs Bright - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
(collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
(collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
(collectively) Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
(countable) A shiny gray color.
Made from .
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Made from another white metal.
Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
* 1994 , “Mate matching” in Accent on Living , v 38, n 4 (Spring), p 52:
(label) Premium, but inferior to gold.
To acquire a silvery colour.
*(w) (1827-1905)
*:The eastern sky began to silver and shine.
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*:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
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To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep.
To make hoary, or white, like silver.
*(John Gay) (1685-1732)
*:His head was silvered o'er with age.
Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.
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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.
*Sir (Francis Drake) (c.1540-1596)
*:The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright .
* (1800-1859)
*:The public places were as bright as at noonday.
*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
*:The sun was bright o'erhead.
Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
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*:—Ah, God, Corley replied, sure I couldn't teach in a school, man. I was never one of your bright ones, he added with a half laugh.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Vivid, colourful, brilliant.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
Happy, in (soplink).
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*1937 , , (The Hobbit) , Ch.11:
*:Their spirits had risen a little at the discovery of the path, but now they sank into their boots; and yet they would not give it up and go away. The hobbit was no longer much brighter than the dwarves. He would do nothing but sit with his back to the rock-face and stare.
Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Be bright and jovial among your guests.
Illustrious; glorious.
*(Charles Cotton) (1630-1687)
*:the brightest annals of a female reign
Clear; transparent.
*(James Thomson) (1700-1748)
*:From the brightest wines / He'd turn abhorrent.
(lb) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
*:with brighter evidence, and with surer success
An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
(obsolete) splendour; brightness
* Milton
(neologism) A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements.
* {{quote-news, date = 2003-06-20
, title = The future looks bright
, first = Richard
, last = Dawkins
, authorlink = Richard Dawkins
, newspaper = (The Guardian)
, issn = 0261-3077
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jun/21/society.richarddawkins
, passage = Brights' constitute 60% of American scientists, and a stunning 93% of those scientists good enough to be elected to the elite National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to Fellows of the Royal Society) are ' brights .
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* {{quote-book, date = 2006-02-02
, title = Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon
, first = Daniel C.
, last = Dennett
, authorlink = Daniel C. Dennett
, location = New York
, publisher = Viking
, isbn = 9780670034727
, ol = 3421576M
, page = 27
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=yWtwDDqR61QC&pg=PA27&dq=brights
, passage = Many of us brights' have devoted considerable time and energy at some point in our lives to looking at the arguments for and against the existence of God, and many ' brights continue to pursue these issues, hacking away vigorously at the arguments of believers as if they were trying to refute a rival scientific theory.
}}
* {{quote-book, date = 2008-03-17
, title = The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism Is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness
, first = David
, last = Aikman
, location = Carol Stream
, publisher = Tyndale House Publishers
, isbn = 9781414317083
, ol = 24967138M
, page = 28
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=zn6XkS-4BJcC&pg=PA28&dq=brights
, passage = Dawkins has received appreciative letters from people who were formerly what he derisively calls "faith-heads" who have abandoned their delusions and come over to the side of the brights , the pleasant green pastures where clear-eyed, brave, bold, and supremely brainy atheists graze contentedly.
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As proper nouns the difference between silver and bright
is that silver is for a silversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook while bright is .silver
English
(wikipedia silver)Noun
Synonyms
* (metallic element) (l) * (white-metal coins) (l) * (cutlery and other eating utensils) silverware * (when used as a food colouring)Derived terms
(derived terms) * silver alert * spp. ) * ) * ) * () * silver bell tree / silver-bell tree / (Halesia ) * silver berry / silverberry (Elaeagnus ) * silverbill (Lonchura spp. ) * silver birch (Betula pendula ) * silver book * * silver bromide * silver bullet * silver-bush / silverbush * silver ceiling * silver certificate * silver chloride * silver city * silver cord * silver doctor * silver dollar * silver-eared mesia * silver eye / silver-eye / silvereye * ) * silverfin ) * silverfish * silver fir * silver fizz * silver fluoride * silver foil * silver-fork deformity * silver-fork fracture * silver fox * silver frost * silver gilt * silver goose * silver grass * silver-green * silver gray / silver-gray / silvergray / silver grey / silver-grey * silver hake * silver halide * silver iodate * silver iodide * silver jenny * silver jubilee * silver lace / silver-lace * silver lace vine / silver-lace vine * silver leaf * silver-leafed / silver-leaved * silver-leaved nettle * silver-leaved nightshade * silver-leaved poplar * silver lime * silver linden * silver lining * silver maple * silver medal * silver medalist * silver mine * silver mound * silver nitrate * silver oak * silver paper * silver parachute * silver perch * silver pine * silver plate / silver-plate * silver point * silver poplar * silver protein * silver protein stain * silver quandong * silver quandong tree * silver sage * silver sagebrush * silver salmon * silver-scaled * silver screen * silver skin / silver-skin * silver solder * silver spring * silver spruce * silver standard * silver star * silver star medal * silver state * silver storm * silver thatch * silver thaw * silver-tip * silver tree * silver tree fern * silver trout * silver vine * silver wattle * silver willow * silver-workerAdjective
(en adjective)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.}}
- Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.
Synonyms
* (having a color like silver) silveryDerived terms
* antimonial silver * bismuth-silver * bromic silver * capillary silver * colloidal silver * cat-silver * dark red silver ore * desilver * desilverise, desilverize * every cloud has a silver lining * flat silver * German silver * horn silver * iodic silver * light red silver ore * (Long John Silver) * molybdic silver * native silver * nickel silver, nickel-silver * red silver * ruby silver * sheep-silver * shell silver * silver age * silver alum * silverback * silver ball * silver balli * silver band * silver bar * silver bath * silver-beater * silver beech * silver beet * silver-beggar * silver bell, silver bell tree * silver-belly * silver bennet * silver berry, silverberry * silverbill * silver birch * silver-black * silver blond, silver blonde * Silverblu, Silver Blu, Silver Blue * silver bream * silver bromide * silver bronze * silver buckle * silver bullet * silver certificate * silver chain * silver char * silver chickweed * silver chloride * silver collection * silver-colored, silver-coloured * silver-copper nitrate * silver cord * the silver cord is loosed * silver doctor * silver dollar * silver dollar fish * silver-dun * silvered * silver eel * silverer * silverette * silver-eye, silvereye * silver-eyes * silver-feast * silver feather * silver fern * silver fir * silver fish, silver-fish, silverfish * silver-fizz * silver fluoride * silver foil * silver-footed * silver-fork * silver fox * silver frost * silver fulminate * silver garfish * silver gibbon * silver gilt, silver-gilt * silver glass * silver grain, silver-grain * silver grass, silver-grass * silver-gray, silver-grey * silver gull * silver-haired * silver hair-grass * silver hake * silver halide * silver handshake * silver-head * silver-headed * silver herb * silver-hilted * silverily * silveriness * silvering * silver iodide * silverise, silverize * silverish * silverism * silverist * silverite * silver iodide * silver jubilee * silver king * silver knapweed * silver lady * Silver Lady * silver lamprey * silver lavender * silver lead, silver-lead * silver-leaf * silver-leaved * silverless * silver-like * silver line, silver lines * silver lining * silver luster, silver lustre * silverly * silver maple * silver-marmoset * silver medal * silver medalist, silver medallist * silver mine * silver-mounted * silverness * silver nitrate * silver oak * silver oar * Silver Office * silver ore * silver oxide * silver paper * silver perch * silver pheasant * silver piece * silver pike * silver pine, silver pine tree * silver plate * silver-plate * silver-plated * silver plover * silver-point, silverpoint * silver-pointed * silver polish * silver poplar * silver-powder * silver print * silver-printing * silver rain * silver ring * silver rule * silver salmon * silver sand * silver-scaled * silver screen * silver service * silver-shafted * Silver Shirts * silver-side, silverside * silver-sides, silversides * silver-skin, silverskin * silversmith * silversmithing * silver solder * silver sole * silver spoon * silver-spoonism * silver-spot, silverspot * silver-sprig * silver standard * Silver Star, Silver Star medal * silver state * Silver State * silver steel * silver-stick * silver streak * silver string * silver sulfide, silver sulphide * silver surfer * silversword * silver table * silvertail, silver-tail * silver-tailed * silver tea * silver telluride * silver thaw * silver thistle * silver thread * silver-tip, silvertip * silver tongue * silver-tongued * silver top * silver-tree * silver trout * silver trumpet * silver trumpeter * silver-voiced * silverware * silver-washed fritillary * silver wattle * silver wedding * silverweed * silver weight * silver whiskers * silver-white * silver-white cobalt * silver willow * silver wire, silver-wire * silver-wood * silver-work * silver wreck * silvery * silver y, silver y moth * sterling silver * telluric silver * telluride of gold and silver * telluride of silverSee also
* argent * argentaffin * argental * argentan * argentane * argentate * argenteous * argentian * argentic * argentiferous * argentific * argentify * Argentina * Argentine * argentine * argentite * argento- * argentometer * argentous * argentry * argentum nitricum * argyria * electrum * (hydrargyrum) * litharge * piastre * plateresque * polybasite * proustite * pyrargyrite * (Rio de la Plata) * sylvanite *Verb
(en verb)Statistics
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* * 1000 English basic words ----bright
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Adjective
(er)Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* * brighten * bright-eyed * bright-eyed and bushy-tailed * brightness * bright side * bright young thing * brightwork * eyebrightSee also
* (Brights movement)Noun
(en noun)- Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear.