Meaning of 'silver' (Webster Dictionary)
- Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver
leaf; a silver cup.
- Resembling silver.
- Bright; resplendent; white.
- Precious; costly.
- Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
- Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
- 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.
- Coin made of silver; silver money.
- Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
- The color of silver.
- To acquire a silvery color.
- 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.
- To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like
that of silver.
- To make hoary, or white, like silver.
Meaning of 'silver' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- make silver in color
Example in sentence:- Her worries had silvered her hair
Meaning (2):
- coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam
Meaning (3):
- turn silver
Example in sentence:- The man's hair silvered very attractively
Meaning (4):
- having the white lustrous sheen of silver
Example in sentence:- a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap;
- repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen
Meaning (5):
- expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
Example in sentence:- able to dazzle with his facile tongue;
- silver speech
Meaning (6):
- made from or largely consisting of silver
Meaning (7):
- of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver
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