1. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
2. coin made of this metal; specie; money: a handful of silver.
3. this metal as a commodity or considered as a currency standard.
4. table articles made of or plated with silver, including flatware and hollowware.
5. any flatware: The kitchen silver is of stainless steel.
6. something resembling this metal in color, luster, etc.
7. a lustrous grayish white or whitish gray, or the color of the metal: the silver of the leaves.
8. any of the silver halides used for photographic purposes, as silver bromide, silver chloride, or silver iodide.
9. silver medal.

10. consisting of, made of, or plated with silver.
11. of or relating to silver.
12. producing or yielding silver.
13. resembling silver; silvery: the silver moon.
14. clear and soft: silver sounds.
15. eloquent; persuasive: a silver tongue.
16. urging the use of silver as a currency standard: silver economists.
17. indicating the twenty-fifth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.
18. having the color silver: a silver dress.

19. to coat with silver or some silverlike substance.
20. to give a silvery color to.

21. to become a silvery color.

1. U.S. rabbi, born in Lithuania.

• a very ductile malleable brilliant greyish-white element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal. It occurs free and in argentite and other ores: used in jewellery, tableware, coinage, electrical contacts, and in electroplating. Its compounds are used in photography. Symbol: Ag; atomic no: 47; atomic wt: 107.8682; valency: 1 or 2; relative density: 10.50; melting pt: 961.93°C; boiling pt: 2163°C
• (as modifier)
2. coin made of, or having the appearance of, this metal
3. cutlery, whether made of silver or not
4. any household articles made of silver
5. any of a number of silver compounds used either as photosensitive substances in emulsions or as sensitizers
• a brilliant or light greyish-white colour
• (as adjective)
7. short for silver medal

8. well-articulated
9. denoting the 25th in a series, esp an annual series

10. to coat with silver or a silvery substance
11. to become or cause to become silvery in colour
12. to become or cause to become elderly

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