Silver
['sɪlvə] or ['sɪlvɚ]
Definition
(noun.) coins made of silver.
(noun.) a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography.
(verb.) turn silver; 'The man's hair silvered very attractively'.
(verb.) make silver in color; 'Her worries had silvered her hair'.
(verb.) coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam; 'silver the necklace'.
(adj.) having the white lustrous sheen of silver; 'a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap'; 'repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen' .
(adj.) made from or largely consisting of silver; 'silver bracelets' .
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Coin made of silver; silver money.
(n.) Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
(n.) The color of silver.
(a.) Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
(a.) Resembling silver.
(a.) Bright; resplendent; white.
(a.) Precious; costly.
(a.) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
(a.) Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
(v. t.) To make hoary, or white, like silver.
(v. i.) To acquire a silvery color.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Silvery, of silver.[2]. White, bright, of the color of silver.[3]. Soft and clear (as sound), mellifluous, euphonious, not harsh.
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Definition
n. a soft white metal capable of a high polish: money made of silver: anything having the appearance of silver.—adj. made of silver: resembling silver: white: bright: precious: gentle: having a soft and clear tone: of high rank but still second to the highest.—v.t. to cover with silver: to make like silver: to make smooth and bright: to make silvery.—v.i. to become silvery.—ns. Sil′ver-bath (phot.) a solution of silver-nitrate for sensitising collodion-plates for printing; Sil′ver-beat′er one who beats out silver into thin foil.—adjs. Sil′ver-black black silvered over with white; Sil′ver-bright (Shak.) as bright as silver; Sil′ver-bus′kined having buskins adorned with silver.—ns. Sil′ver-fir a coniferous tree of the genus Abies whose leaves show two silvery lines on the under side; Sil′ver-fish a name given to the atherine to artificially bred gold-fish the sand-smelt the tarpon: any species of Lepisma a thysanurous insect—also Bristletail Walking-fish Silver-moth Shiner &c.; Sil′ver-fox a species of fox found in northern regions having a rich and valuable fur; Sil′ver-glance native silver sulphide; Sil′ver-grain the medullary rays in timber.—adjs. Sil′ver-gray having a gray or bluish-gray colour; Sil′ver-haired having white or lustrous gray hair; Sil′ver-head′ed having a silver head: with white hair.—ns. Sil′veriness the state of being silvery; Sil′vering the operation of covering with silver: the silver so used.—v.t. Sil′verise to coat or cover with silver:—pr.p. sil′verīsing; pa.p. sil′verīsed.—ns. Sil′verite one who opposes the demonetisation of silver; Sil′ver-leaf silver beaten into thin leaves; Sil′verling (B.) a small silver coin.—adv. Sil′verly (Shak.) with the appearance of silver.—adjs. Sil′vern made of silver; Sil′ver-plā′ted plated with silver.—n. Sil′ver-print′ing the production of photographic prints by the use of a sensitising salt of silver.—adj. Sil′ver-shaft′ed carrying silver arrows as Diana.—ns. Sil′versmith a smith who works in silver; Sil′ver-stick an officer of the royal palace—from his silvered wand.—adjs. Sil′ver-tongued plausible eloquent; Sil′ver-voiced (Shak.) having a clear sweet voice like the sound of a silver musical instrument; Sil′ver-white (Shak.) white like silver; Sil′very covered with silver: resembling silver: white: clear soft mellow.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of silver, is a warning against depending too largely on money for real happiness and contentment. To find silver money, is indicative of shortcomings in others. Hasty conclusions are too frequently drawn by yourself for your own peace of mind. To dream of silverware, denotes worries and unsatisfied desires.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A metallic form of opium, smoked by Presidential impossibilities.
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Examples
- The silver, being sensitive to the action of light, is there to record the image. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- To obtain a true photograph, the negative is placed on a piece of sensitive photographic paper, or paper coated with a silver salt in the same manner as the plate and films. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For example, if the sun's rays fall upon silver chloride, a chemical action immediately begins, and as a result we have two separate substances, chlorine and silver. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And they alone of all the citizens may not touch or handle silver or gold, or be under the same roof with them, or wear them, or drink from them. Plato. The Republic.
- A background and entourage and flooring of deepest crimson threw her out, white like alabaster--like silver: rather, be it said, like Death. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In the accompanying diagram, the ends of the flat silvered glasses _a c_, _b c_, are inclined at an angle of 60 degrees; therefore the circle is completed by the junction of six sectors. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The silvered mountains in the distance, the almost stationary moon hanging in the sky, the cacti-studded valley below me were not of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It was a handsome, lively, quick face, full of change and motion; and his hair was a silvered iron-grey. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When dressed, I sat a long time by the window looking out over the silent grounds and silvered fields and waiting for I knew not what. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I see the moon of a calm winter night, float full, clear, and cold, over the inky mass of shrubbery, and the silvered turf of my grounds. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yonder silvered pavement reminds me of that white shore we believe to be beyond the death-flood. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thus, when the vessel is filled with the silvering liquid, a voltaic current is established, and the deposition is effected on the articles connected with the negative pole. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This is excellent in silvering brass and copper articles. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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