SILVER
\sˈɪlvə], \sˈɪlvə], \s_ˈɪ_l_v_ə]\
Definitions of SILVER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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lustrous gray; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair"
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a light shade of gray
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coins made of silver
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made from or largely consisting of silver; "silver bracelets"
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a medal made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition
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turn silver; "The man's hair silvered very attractively"
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make silver in color; "Her worries had silvered her hair"
By Princeton University
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lustrous gray; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair"
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a light shade of gray
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coins made of silver
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made from or largely consisting of silver; "silver bracelets"
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turn silver, as of hair
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a medal made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
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To cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.
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To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
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To make hoary, or white, like silver.
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To acquire a silvery color.
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A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5.
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Coin made of silver; silver money.
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Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
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The color of silver.
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Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
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Resembling silver.
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Bright; resplendent; white.
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Precious; costly.
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Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
By Oddity Software
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Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
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To cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.
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To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
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To make hoary, or white, like silver.
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To acquire a silvery color.
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A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5.
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Coin made of silver; silver money.
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Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
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The color of silver.
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Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
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Resembling silver.
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Bright; resplendent; white.
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Precious; costly.
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Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
By Noah Webster.
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A precious, soft, white, ductile, metallic element; silverware, money, etc., made of this metal; the color of this metal.
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Pertaining to, or made of, silver; like silver in color or sound; as, silver hair, or silver tones.
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To cover or coat with silver or a substance resembling silver; to make bright or white like silver.
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To divide into long, thin pieces.
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A splinter; a sharp, thin, pointed piece, as of wood.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A soft white metal, capable of a high polish: money made of silver: anything having the appearance of silver.
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Made of silver: resembling silver: white: bright: precious: gentle.
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To cover with silver: to make like silver: to make smooth and bright: to make silvery.
By Daniel Lyons
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Made of, or like, silver; white.
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Precious metal of a white color; money of silver.
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To cover with silver; make silvery or white.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To plate with silver; give a silvery hue to.
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Made of silver or resembling silver; having a pure bell like tone.
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A white, ductile metallic element; one of the precious metals; silver coin or silverware.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Argentum-s. Ammonio-chloride of, see Argentum- s. Chloride of, see Argentum- s. Chloruret of, see Argentum-s. Cyanide of, see Argentum- s. Cyanuret of, see Argentum- s. Iodide of, see Argentum- s. Loduret of, see Argentum.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A metal occurring in nature both uncombined and in combination, in the latter case usually as a sulphid. It is a good conductor of heat and electricity. It is not changed by the atmosphere, though it may be altered by hydrogen sulphid. It usually forms strong coherent solid masses, but it may be obtained as a fine dark powder (molecular s.), and it is also found in the crystalline form. Atomic weight, 107.9. Specific gravity, 10.5. Symbol, Ag., from Lat., argentum.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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