green
adjective (green, greener, greenest); noun (green, greens)
Everyday
- Green is the colour of grass and leaves. tree →
- Green means not ripe yet: «green bananas». tree →
- Green means good for nature: «green energy». tree →
- A green is a grassy area: a village green. tree →
- Greens are green vegetables. tree →
In the lessons
a colour that tells one kind of a thing from another: green apples, green peaches, green marbles; in science and art, blue and yellow make green; plants are green because of chlorophyll; phrases: «green light» (go), «green with envy», «go green», «eat your greens»
Examples
- There are 7 red peaches and 15 green peaches. tree →
- How many green apples are in the basket? tree →
- How many more green peaches than red? tree →
- She has 12 green marbles. tree →
- The grass is green after the rain. tree →
- Wait for the green man before you cross. tree →
- Blue and yellow make green. tree →
- Eat your greens; they are good for you. tree →
Note
A kind word, not a quantity. It picks which group the number belongs to. Trap: «how many more green than red» is a difference; «how many peaches» adds all colours. Safety: cross the road only when the green man shows.
In Jewish tradition
Green herbs are given to humans for food, as in the permission to eat everything after the flood.
Interpretation. Sefer Yetzirah reads the void as a green line around the universe. Green is also a color the rabbis linked to the life of plants.
Examples
- Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all. (Torah GEN.9.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- is a green line that surrounds the whole universe, and chaos (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- Void is a green line that sur- rounds the whole universe, and chaos refers to viscous stones, (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden. (Writings JOB.8.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- For they shall soon wither like the grass, and fade as the green herb. (Writings PSA.37.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. (Writings JOB.39.8, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A kind word, not a quantity. It picks which group the number belongs to. Trap: «how many more green than red» is a difference; «how many peaches» adds all colours. Safety: cross the road only when the green man shows.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «green» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «green» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of «green» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «green» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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