silver
silver is a 6-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. Coin made of silver; silver money.
- noun. Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
- noun. The color of silver.
- adjective. Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
- adjective. Resembling silver.
- adjective. Bright; resplendent; white.
- adjective. Precious; costly.
- adjective. Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
- adjective. Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
- transitive verb. To make hoary, or white, like silver.
- intransitive verb. To acquire a silvery color.
- 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
- noun. a light shade of grey
- 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"
- adjective. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
"able to dazzle with his facile tongue"
"silver speech"
- 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. made from or largely consisting of silver
"silver bracelets"
Synonyms
flatware, ag, eloquent, facile, fluent, silvern, silvery, argent, silverish
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in silver:
ervils, livers, livres, sliver
Common word forms
silvers, silvered, silverer, silverly, silvering, silverise, silverize, silverless, silverness
Words from these letters
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