silver 
sil·ver (sil′vər)
noun
- a soft, white, metallic chemical element that is extremely ductile and malleable, an excellent reflector of light, and the best metallic conductor of heat and electricity: it is a precious metal and is used in the manufacture of coins, jewelry, alloys, etc.: symbol, Ag; at. no., 47
- silver coin
- money; riches; wealth
- something, esp. tableware, made of or plated with silver; silverware
- the lustrous, grayish-white color of silver
- something having this color, as the material used in coating the back of a mirror
- a salt of silver as used in photography, etc.
- silver medal
Etymology: ME selver < OE seolfer, akin to Ger silber, Goth silubr, prob. a loanword < a non-IE source
adjective
- made of, containing, or plated with silver silver thread
- of, based on, or having to do with silver the silver standard
- ☆ of or advocating the adoption of silver as a standard of currency
- having the color or luster of silver; silvery
- having a silvery tone or sound
- eloquent a silver tongue
- marking or celebrating the 25th anniversary
transitive verb
- to cover or coat with silver or something like silver
- to make silvery in color hair silvered with age
intransitive verb
silver
modif.
Suggestive of silver
silvery, pale, white, lustrous, bright, resplendent, silvern, silvery white, silverlike, white as silver; see also shimmering.Concerning the use of silver
of silver, made of silver, sterling, plated with silver, silver-gilt, silver-plated.
Silver has had an important role in the U.S.s monetary system. In 1792, Congress based the U.S. currency on the silver dollar and fixed, or set, silvers value to gold. Silver was used to make coins until 1965.
Silver is available in different levels of purity. Fine silver is 99.9 percent silver; sterling silver is 92.5 percent silver, with other metals, typically copper, making up the difference, and coin silver is 90 percent silver with 10 percent copper. Nickel silver, despite its name, is an alloy of 65 percent copper with nickel and zinc, and has no silver at all. Mexico, the United States, and Peru are the primary producers of silver.
Preposition: of
- chromium: It has the lanterns, hubcaps and top of silver of chromium.
Converse of object
- win: Recently he won silver in the Commonwealth Tournament held in Northern Ireland.
- snatch: We had no idea whether we had snatched the silver until I saw an official show the photograph to the Russians.
- shine: In my mind it is made not of Cotswold stone but of some precious metal, gold perhaps, or shining silver.
- polish: The club had 24 musicians and 53 employees of whom one had, as his sole job, to polish the silver.
Adjective modifier
- colloidal: The smaller the particles the better the quality of the Colloidal Silver.
- metallic: The large asymmetrical leaves are in metallic silver, pinks, reds and purples, often combined in arresting patterns.
- sterling: Silver clay can therefore be worn by people normally sensitive to sterling silver!
- shiny: The main outer edges of the album are finished in shiny silver and has a flower design within the four corners of the album.
- pure: Pure silver is never pure, it is 99.9 % 99.99 % or 99.999 % pure.
- arctic: But the impression left by the arctic silver after a test fit convinced me that the heatsink and core are mating adequately well.
Modifies a noun
- medal: He also won a silver medal for the 200m.
- medallist: He then went on to beat Frenchman Olivier Hatem, the Sydney silver medallist, for the first time in his career.
- lining: Episode 21 In which the bride's cloud has a silver lining.
- jewelry: Affinity of London - Buy stunning silver jewelry online.
- coin: However, the father must have regretted his hard-sell tactics, for he soldered the silver coin to the PB's gearbox housing.
- birch: The silver birch is always a lovely tree, its triangular leaves turned yellow by the time they begin to fall.
Noun used with modifier
- sterling: Unique ladies right hand rings, right hand diamond rings & sterling silver right hand ring.
- nickel: Preferred metals were copper, brass or in this case nickel silver which is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc.
- satin: Standard metal options - 110 mm, 165 mm, satin silver or painted to match; other sizes to special order.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding.For themerchandise of it isbetter than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the thingsthoucanst desirearenottobe compared untoher. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
A ship, an isle, a sickle moonö With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!
Thou,O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his bellyand his thighs of brass.His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stonewas cut out without hands, whichsmotetheimage upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie, That I may drink, before I go, A service to my bonie lassie.
First of all the Georgian Silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon. Then the Canalettos go.
A chieftain to the Highlands bound Cries 'Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound To row us o'er the ferry.'
Had I the heavens'embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
Silverand gold have Inone; but such as Ihave give Ithee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because theyare few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low: Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and mournersgo about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
If a man bring to London an ounce of Silver out of the Earth in Peru in the same time that he can produce a bushel of Corn, then one isthe natural price of the other.
Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.
Now the nimble fingers are no more nimble, And the silver thimble lies cold and tarnished black.
My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing.
Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
Keep the Home-fires burning, While your hearts are yearning, Though your lads are far away They dream of Home. There's a silver lining Through the dark clouds shining; Turn the dark cloud inside out, Till the boys come Home.
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them,What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
Either what womanhaving ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep thehouse, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
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