Dictionary Entry
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.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Coin made of silver; silver money.
- 3noun
Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
- 4noun
The color of silver.
- 5adjective
Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
- 6adjective
Resembling silver.
- 7adjective
Bright; resplendent; white.
- 8adjective
Precious; costly.
- 9adjective
Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
- 10adjective
Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
- 11transitive 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.
- 12transitive verb
To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
- 13transitive verb
To make hoary, or white, like silver.
- 14intransitive verb
To acquire a silvery color.
- 15noun
silverware eating utensils
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- 16noun
a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition
- 17noun
a light shade of grey
- 18noun
coins made of silver
- 19noun
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
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- 20verb
turn silver
"The man's hair silvered very attractively"
- 21verb
make silver in color
"Her worries had silvered her hair"
- 22verb
coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam
"silver the necklace"
- 23adjective
expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
"able to dazzle with his facile tongue"
"silver speech"
- 24adjective
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"
- 25adjective
of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver
"silvery hair"
- 26adjective
made from or largely consisting of silver
"silver bracelets"
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