silver

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We don't have a dock and silver window chrome because OS X does.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of silver gathered in one view.

noun

coins made of silver

noun

a light shade of grey

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for silver.

noun

coins made of silver

noun

a light shade of grey

noun

silverware eating utensils

noun

a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition

verb

coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam; "silver the necklace"

verb

make silver in color; "Her worries had silvered her hair"

verb

turn silver; "The man's hair silvered very attractively"

adjective

made from or largely consisting of silver; "silver bracelets"

adjective

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"

adjective

of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair"

adjective

expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech"

Example sentences

We don't have a dock and silver window chrome because OS X does.

Mark wants to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Dalton wants to raise the goose that lays the silver egg.

And it's not silver bullets, it's just sound execution of basic, common sense practices.

I was being handed to B on a silver platter, a pre-vetted, pre-trained, instantly-productive candidate.

But this particular kit is advertised too much like a silver bullet to assure me that the manufacturers are anywhere near that responsible.

So I found a way to stop the game from loading anything other than level data and I could briefly see a strange silver ramp level with blue skies, but I would fall and die immediately.

>The Surface is partially for Microsofts world of denial: the world in which this store contains no elephants and Microsoft invented the silver store with the glass front and the glowing logo and blue shirts and white lanyards and these table layouts and the modern tablet and its magnetic power cableHuh what?