silvers [sil-ver]
Main Entry:
change [cheynj]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: smaller currency in exchange for larger
Synonyms: chicken feed, coins, copper, dimes, nickels, pennies, pin money, pocket money, quarters, silver, spending money
Antonyms: bill, dollar
Main Entry: jewelry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: precious stones, metals worn as decoration
Synonyms: adornment, anklet, band, bangle, bauble, beads, bijou, bracelet, brass, brooch, cameo, chain, charm, choker, costume, cross, crown, diamonds, earring, finery, frippery, gem, glass*, gold, ice*, jewel, junk*, knickknack, lavaliere, locket, necklace, ornament, pendant, pin, regalia, ring, rock, rosary, silver, solitaire, sparkler, stickpin, stone, tiara, tie pin, treasure, trinket
Main Entry: money
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: currency accepted as exchange for goods, services
Synonyms: almighty dollar, banknote, bankroll, bill, bread, bucks, capital, cash, check, chips, coin, coinage, dough, finances, fund, funds, gold, gravy, greenback, hard cash, legal tender, loot*, medium of exchange, pay, payment, pesos, property, resources, riches, roll, salary, silver, specie, treasure, wad, wage, wealth, wherewithal
Main Entry: plate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: coat with metallic material
Synonyms: anodize, bronze, chrome, cover, electroplate, enamel, encrust, face, flake, foil, gild, laminate, layer, nickel, overlay, platinize, scale, silver, stratify
Notes: dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized
Main Entry: whiten
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make or become extremely pale
Synonyms: blanch, bleach, blench, chalk, decolor, decolorize, dull, etiolate, fade, frost, grizzle, lighten, pale, silver, turn pale, white, whitewash
Antonyms: blacken, darken, dirty
Main Entry: coinage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: metal money
Synonyms: cash, change, coins, silver
Main Entry: ore
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: metallic mineral
Synonyms: blende, bronze, copper, gold, iron, lead, metal, mineral, platinum, rock, silver, tin, zinc
Related Words
Main Entry: money
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
aerarian, auriferous, chrematistic, crumenal, economic, expended, expending, financial, fiscal, mercenary, monetary, numismatical, pecuniary, pecunious, priced, quaestuary, sterling, sumptuary, to the tune of, venal
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Difference at different times] Change.
Category: 1. SIMPLE CHANGE
Synonyms:
-nouns
change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break., transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative., conversion (gradual change); revolution (sudden or radical change); inversion (reversal); displacement; transference., changeableness; tergiversation (change of mind).
-verbs
change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume., work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume; metamorphose, ring the changes., innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf., recast; reverse; disturb; convert into.
-adjectives
changed; newfangled; changeable; transitional; modifiable; alterative.
-adverbs
mutatis mutandis ["The necessary changes having been made" (Latin)].
-phrases
"a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; nous avons changé tout cela [Molière. "We have changed all that" (French)]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis ["The times are changed even as we are changed in them" (Latin)]; non sum qualis eram [Horace. "I am not as I used to be" (Latin)]; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Tacitus. "Bodies grow slowly but are snuffed out quickly" (Latin)]; in statu quo ante bellum ["In the state in which it was before the war" (Latin)]; "still ending and beginning still" [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera scripta manet ["The voice heard vanishes, the letter written
Antonyms: permanence
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