Crossword clues for greening
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Green \Green\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Greened (great): p. pr. & vb. n. Greening.] To make green.
Great spring before
Greened all the year.
--Thomson.
Greening \Green"ing\, n. A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.
Wiktionary
Becoming green in colour. n. 1 The action of the verb '''to green'''. 2 (context obsolete English) A type of pear. 3 A type of apple that is green when ripe. v
(present participle of green English)
WordNet
adj. turning green; leafing out; "overgrown with greening trees and underbrush"
n. the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored; "the annual rejuvenation of the landscape" [syn: rejuvenation]
Wikipedia
Greening is the process of transforming artifacts such as a space, a lifestyle or a brand image into a more environmentally friendly version (i.e. 'greening your home' or 'greening your office'). The act of greening involves incorporating "green" products and processes into one's environment, such as the home, work place, and general lifestyle.
Greening is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Colin Greening (b. 1986), Canadian ice hockey player
- Henry Thomas Greening (1730–1809), gardener to King George II at Windsor
- John Greening (b. 1950), former Australian rules footballer
- Jonathan Greening (b. 1979), English footballer
- Justine Greening (b. 1969), English politician and Member of Parliament
- Karen Greening (b. 1962), Canadian rock and jazz singer a.k.a. Lee Aaron
- Kevin Greening (1962–2007), British radio presenter
- Paul Greening (1928–2008), British courtier
- Phil Greening (b. 1975), former English rugby union player
- Rhondi Greening, pen name of Rhondi A. Vilott Salsitz, American science fiction and fantasy author
- Tim Greening (1968–2007), American newspaper columnist
- Thomas Greening (1882–1956), English cricketer
Usage examples of "greening".
They were northwest-bound, for Skagit Valley, where the barley fields were greening and the tulips were in bloom.
Cheddar cheese, a greening potato covered with wartlike sprouts, and half an air-dried tomato drawing in on itself.
Daily life on the Ark, however had the Noahs borne it, that yearlong drift in searching circles afloat above their ruined world as the lambs and goats and she-bears and tigers and workhorses and owls and swans and geese among them contended for the best cabin and a preeminent chair upon the deck, all the while scanning the lowering skies, bent against the gales, complaining of the rain, glossed by lightning snaps, watching the far horizon for the first hint of land, for the greening crest of the highest hilltop to appear which they recognized at once and reclaimed as their own.
I entertained Gerald Greening in the morning room, where he ate copiously of kippers followed by eggs and bacon, all furnished by Dawson, forewarned.
S’uthlam has had its greenings and flowerings and blossomings and ecological revolutions before.
The greening of Mars required two different kinds of planetary engineering: crude terraforming, to raise the surface temperature and atmospheric pressure to a plausible threshold for life, and ecopoiesis: using microbial and plant life to condition the soil and oxygenate the air.
It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call viriditas, and it is the driving force in the cosmos.
He'd planned to put it into zinnias, which were not Dorotea's favorite flower, but Amariyah had endeared herself to him by naming every single shrub, tree, and greening plant by their Latin names.
Today with much-reduced eolian erosion as a result of the greening of Arrakis, and with little in the waj of water erosion, mountains are rising rapidly (rapidly m a geological time sense).
It had been taken in Los Angeles near the end of her childhood, before the Greenings were divorced and Alison and her mother moved to San Francisco.