ADJ
pure, solid | sterling
VERB + SILVER
extract, mine
Workers have been mining silver from underground deposits in that region for over a century.
set sth in
My grandmother had a beautiful ring with an emerald set in silver.
SILVER + NOUN
ore | bar, ingot, plate | mine | the silver
ADJ
family
The old painting was part of the family silver that had been passed down for generations.
VERB + SILVER
polish | silver medal
ADJ
Olympic
VERB + SILVER
get, take, win
The gymnast won silver at the international competition last month.
noun
A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
A shiny gray color.
I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.
adj
Made from silver.
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
Made from another white metal.
Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.
Premium, but inferior to gold.
verb
To acquire a silvery colour.
Presently all the eastern sky began to silver and shine, and objects before invisible in the west—chiefly the tall towers on Mount Zion—emerged as from a shadowy depth, [...]
But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
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.
For here retir'd the ſinking billows ſleep, / And ſmiling calmneſs ſilver'd o'er the deep.
To make hoary, or white, like silver.
Remote from cities liv'd a Swain, / Unvex'd with all the cares of gain, / His head was ſilver'd o'er with age, / And long experience made him ſage; [...]
noun — silverware eating utensils
noun — a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the
adjective — expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
adjective — having the white lustrous sheen of silver
An early type of cinema screen which had a coating of silver or another shiny metal.
The smooth silver screen is well suited to color reproduction for its metallic particles emphasize colors and increase brightness above the level of the matte white screen.
The trait of being articulate and clever at speaking, often in a deceitful way.
[H]e passed into the saloon, where Nina presided; and here his fair person and silver tongue […
Born rich, or into a wealthy family.
Near-synonyms: born to the purple, to the manor born
There is something good in any bad situation.
Every cloud has a silver lining; but in the old-fashioned meeting-houses every cloud of hymnal melody generally had a nasal lining before the congregation […]
Wealth passed down or inherited.
He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose. He didn't lose the latter when he squandered the former.
[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
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WiktionaryHe looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan'
WiktionaryBut Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver e
WiktionaryMostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.
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