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Definition: Silver |
SilverAdjective1. Made from or largely consisting of silver; "silver bracelets". 2. 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". 3. Lustrous gray; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair. 4. Expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech". Noun1. 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. 2. Coins made of silver. 3. A light shade of gray. 4. Silverware eating utensils. Verb1. Coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam; "silver the necklace". 2. Make silver in color; "Her worries had silvered her hair". 3. Turn silver, as of hair. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Silver" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be silver". |
Date "silver" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | A metallic form of opium, smoked by Presidential impossibilities. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Silver used for a great variety of purposes, as may be judged from the frequent references to it in Scripture. It first appears in commerce in Gen. 13:2; 23:15, 16. It was largely employed for making vessels for the sanctuary in the wilderness (Ex. 26:19; 27:17; Num. 7:13, 19; 10:2). There is no record of its having been found in Syria or Palestine. It was brought in large quantities by foreign merchants from abroad, from Spain and India and other countries probably. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Chemistry | It is a soft white metal, malleable and ductile, and a good conductor of electricity, occurring in the native state and also in various ores. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of silver, is a warning against depending too largely on money for real happiness and contentment. To find silver money, is indicative of shortcomings in others. Hasty conclusions are too frequently drawn by yourself for your own peace of mind. To dream of silverware, denotes worries and unsatisfied desires. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Silver was, by the ancient alchemists, called Diana or the Moon. Silver The Frenchman employs the word silver to designate money, the wealthy Englishman uses the word gold, and the poorer old Roman brass (aes). Silver and gold articles are marked with five marks: the maker's private mark, the standard or assay mark, the hall mark, the duty mark, and the date mark. The standard mark states the proportion of silver, to which figure is added a lion passant for England, a harp crowned for Ireland, a thistle for Edinburgh, and a lion rampant for Glasgow. (For the other marks, see Mark.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A white metallic element that is very ductile and malleable. Symbol, Ag. Occurs native and in ores such as argentite and horn silver; lead, lead-zinc, copper, gold, and copper-nickel ores are its principal sources. Used for jewelry, photography, dental alloys, and coinage b. An isometric or hexagonal mineral, Ag , native silver; commonly alloyed with Hg or Au; soft; metallic; sp gr, 10.5; in oxidized zones ofhydrothermal deposits. (references) |
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Operation SIlver was a British intelligence operation which ran from 1949 to 1955 that covertly tapped into the landline communications of the Soviet Army headquarters in Vienna.The operation was never discovered and ended only when Austria regained full sovereignty. The British monitoring station was disguised as a shop which sold tweed clothing.
In 1951, when the American CIA planned a similar operation in Berlin, the British revealed Operation Silver to the Americans and the two countries then jointly ran Operation Gold.
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Silver is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft white lustrous transition metal, silver has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal and occurs in minerals and in free form. This metal is used in coins, jewelry, tableware and photography.
General Name, Symbol, Number Silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series Transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5 , d Density, Hardness 10490 kg/m3, 2.5 Appearance Silvery Atomic Properties Atomic weight 107.8682 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 160 (165) pm Covalent radius 153 pm van der Waals radius 172 pm Electron configuration [Kr]4d4d10 5s1 e- 's per energy level 2, 8, 18, 18, 1 Oxidation state (Oxide) 1 (amphoteric) Crystal structure Face centered cubic Physical Properties State of matter Solid (__) Melting point 1234.93 K (1763.2 °F) Boiling point 2435 K (3924 °F) Molar volume 10.27 ×1010-3 m3/mol Heat of vaporization 250 .58 kJ/mol Heat of fusion 11.3 kJ/mol Vapor pressure 0.34 Pa at 1234 K Speed of sound 2600 m/s at 293.15 K Miscellaneous Electronegativity 1.93 (Pauling scale) Specific heat capacity 232 J/(kg*K) Electrical conductivity 63 106/m ohm Thermal conductivity 429 W/(m*K) 1st ionization potential 731.0 kJ/mol 2nd ionization potential 2070 kJ/mol 3rd ionization potential 3361 kJ/mol Most Stable Isotopes
iso NA half-life DM DE MeV DP 107Ag 51.839% Ag is stable with 60 neutrons 108Agm {syn.} 418 y &epsilon
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109Ag 48.161% Ag is stable with 62 neutrons SI units & STP are used except where noted.
Notable Characteristics
Silver is a very ductile and malleable (slightly harder than gold) univalent coinage metal with a brilliant white metallic luster that can take a high degree of polish. It has the highest electrical conductivity of all metals, even higher than copper, but its greater cost has prevented it from being widely used in place of copper for electrical purposes.Pure silver also has the highest thermal conductivity, whitest color, the highest optical reflectivity (although it is a poor reflector of ultraviolet), and the lowest contact resistance of any metal. Silver halides are photosensitive and are remarkable for the effect of light upon them. This metal is stable in pure air and water, but does tarnish when it is exposed to ozone, hydrogen sulfide, or air with sulfur in it. The most common oxidation states of silver are +1 and +2.
Applications
The principal use of silver is as a precious metal and its halide salts, especially silver nitrate, are also widely used in photography (which is the largest single end use of silver). Some other uses for silver are as follows;
- Electrical and electronic products, which need silver's superior conductivity, even when tarnished. For example, printed circuits are made using silver paints, and computer keyboards use silver electrical contacts.
- Mirrors which need silvers superior reflectivity for visible light are made with silver as the reflecting material. Common mirrors are backed with aluminium.
- Silver has been coined to produce money since 700 B.C. with the Lydians, in the form of electrum. Later, silver was refined and coined in its pure form. The words for "silver" and "money" are the same in at least 14 languages.
- The beauty of the metal is chosen for the manufacture of jewelry and silverware, and are traditionally made from the silver alloy known as Sterling silver, which is 92.5% silver.
- The malleability, non-toxicity and beauty of silver make it useful in dental alloys for fittings and fillings.
- Silver's catalytic properties make it ideal for use as a catalyst in oxidation reactions; for example, the production of formaldehyde from methanol and air by means of silver screens or crystallites containing a minimum 99.95 weight-percent silver.
- Used to make solder and brazing alloys, electrical contacts, and high capacity silver-zinc and silver-cadmium batteries.
- Silver fulminate is a powerful explosive.
- Silver chloride can be made transparent and is used as a cement for glass.
- Silver iodide has been used in attempts to seed clouds to produce rain.
History
Silver (Anglo-Saxon, Seolfor siolfur; Ag is from the Latin argentum) has been known since ancient times. It is mentioned in the book of Genesis and slag heaps found in Asia Minor and on the islands of the Aegean Sea indicate that silver was being separated from lead as early as the 4th millennium BC.Silver has been used for thousands of years as ornaments and utensils, for trade, and as the basis for many monetary systems. It was long considered the second most precious metal, second only to gold.
Associated with the moon, as well as with the sea and various lunar goddesses, the metal was referred to by alchemists by the name luna. The alchemical symbol for silver is a half-moon with the open part on the left.
The metal mercury was thought of as a kind of silver, though the two elements are chemically unrelated; its names hydrargyrum ("watery silver") and the English quicksilver attest to this.
In heraldry, the colour white is referred to as argent, as it represents silver.
Europeans, found huge amount of silver in the New World, in Zacatecas, Mexico and Potosí, which triggered a period of inflation in Europe.
The Rio de la Plata was named after silver (in Spanish, plata), and in turn lent the meaning of its name to Argentina.
Occurrence
Silver is found in native form, combined with sulfur, arsenic, antimony, or chlorine and in various ores such as argentite (Ag2S) and horn silver (AgCl). The principal sources of silver are copper, copper-nickel, gold, lead and lead-zinc ores obtained from Canada, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.This metal is also produced during the electrolytic refining of copper. Commercial grade fine silver is at least 99.9% pure silver and purities greater than 99.999% are available.
Isotopes
Naturally occurring silver is composed of the two stable isotopes Ag-107 and Ag-109 with Ag-107 being the most abundant (51.839% natural abundance). Twenty-eight radioisotopes have been characterized with the most stable being Ag-105 with a half-life of 41.29 days, Ag-111 with a half-life of 7.45 days, and Ag-112 with a half-life of 3.13 hours. All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lifes that are less than an hour and the majority of these have half lifes that are less than 3 minutes. This element also has numerous meta states with the most stable being Agm-128 (t* 418 years), Agm-110 (t* 249.79 days) and Agm-107 (t* 8.28 days).Isotopes of silver range in atomic weight from 93.943 amu (Ag-94) to 123.929 amu (Ag-124). The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, Ag-107, is electron capture and the primary mode after is beta decay. The primary decay products before Ag-107 are palladium (element 46) isotopes and the primary products after are cadmium (element 48) isotopes.
The palladium isotope Pd-107 decays by beta emission to Ag-107 with a half-life of 6.5 million years. Iron meteorites are the only objects with a high enough Pd/Ag ratio to yield measurable variations in Ag-107 abundance. Radiogenic Ag-107 was first discovered in the Santa Clara meteorite in 1978. The discoverers suggest that the coalescence and differentiation of iron-cored small planets may have occurred 10 million years after a nucleosynthetic event. Pd-107 versus Ag correlations observed in bodies, which have clearly been melted since the accretion of the solar system, must reflect the presence of live short-lived nuclides in the early solar system.
Precautions and health effects
Silver itself is not toxic but most of its salts are poisonous and may be carcinogenic.Compounds containing silver can be absorbed into the circulatory system and become deposited in various body tissues leading to the condition called argyria which results in a permanent grayish pigmentation of the skin and mucus membranes. Although this condition does not harm a person's health, it is disfiguring.
This metal plays no natural biological role in humans.
The possible health effects of silver are a subject of dispute. Silver has germicidal effects and kills many microbial organisms in vitro without causing noticeable harm to more complex life-forms. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, wrote that silver had beneficial healing and anti-disease properties. Various kinds of silver compounds are sold as remedies for a variety of diseases. However, no clinical study has yet demonstrated a therapeutic use for silver as an antibiotic in vivo. Ingestion of silver compounds can lead to argyria.
Silver compounds are used to accelerate healing in burn victims. According to Dr. Robert O. Becker, they can promote the healing of bones as well.
Silver is used in along with copper as an agent to remove algae in swimming pools in the United States by use of electrolysis. Copper is active against algae while silver is active against bacteria primarily due to silver's activity in absorption of oxygen causing bacteria to oxidize on contact. Some swimming pools do not use silver due to staining problems so they instead used copper - zinc colloids instead.
Production
Mexico is the largest silver producer. According to the Secretary of Economics of Mexico, it has produced in 2000, 2747 tons, about 15% of the annual production of the world.
External Links
- WebElements.com - Silver
- EnvironmentalChemistry.com - Silver
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Silver."
Synonyms: SilverSynonyms: argent (adj), eloquent (adj), facile (adj), fluent (adj), silverish (adj), silvern (adj), silver-tongued (adj), silvery (adj), smooth-spoken (adj), ash gray (n), ash grey (n), atomic number 47 (n), flatware (n), silver gray (n), silver grey (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Age | Phrase: "give me a staff of honor for my age"; bis pueri senes; peu de gens savent elre vieux; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus; "old age is creeping on apace"; "slow-consuming age"'; "the hoary head is a crown of glory"; "the silver livery of advised age"; to grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks that Time has made". |
Celebration | Noun: celebration, solemnization, jubilee, commemoration, ovation, paean, triumph, jubilation, ceremony (rite); holiday, fiesta, zarabanda, revelry, feast (amusement); china anniversary, diamond anniversary, golden anniversary, silver anniversary, tin anniversary, china jubilee, diamond jubilee, golden jubilee, silver jubilee, tin jubilee, china wedding, diamond wedding, golden wedding, silver wedding, tin wedding. |
Compensation | Phrase: " light is mingled with the gloom "; every dark cloud has a silver lining; primo avulso non deficit alter; saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas. |
Covering | Veneer, facing; overlay; plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate; engobe; ormolu; Sheffield plate; pavement; coating, paint; varnish; (resin) a; plating, barrel plating, anointing; Verb: enamel; epitaxial deposition, vapor deposition; ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo; cerement; ointment; (grease). |
Deception | Whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels; scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw. |
Hope | Phrase: nil desperandum; never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora; every cloud has a silver lining; " the wish being father to the thought"; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis. |
Beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope, dawn of hope, star of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead; light at the end of the tunnel. | |
Money | Precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget. |
Gold-backed currency, gold standard, silver standard. | |
Penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper; two-cent piece three-cent piece, half-dime, nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel, dime, disme, mercury dime, quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, Eisenhower dollar, Susan B. Anthony dollar. | |
Double eagle, eagle; Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency; Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate, gold certificate; long bit, short bit; moss, nickel, pile, pin money, quarter, red cent, roanoke, rock; seawan, seawant; thousand dollars, grand. | |
Motive | Tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook. |
Prosperity | Adjective: prosperous; thriving; Verb: in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge. |
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Screenplays | And what sunrises, seen as the human eye could never see them: silver at first, then, as the years progressed, in tones of purple, red, and my long lost blue (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) I always gagged on the silver spoon (Citizen Kane; writing credit: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles) Congratulations! You thre have just won the Gold, Silver and Bronze in the Morons Olympics (101 Dalmatians; writing credit: John Hughes) Now everyone who reads comic books knows that the Kirby Silver Surfer is the only true Silver Surfer, now am I right or wrong (Crimson Tide; writing credit: Michael Schiffer. filmmaker Quentin Tarantino revised portions of the dialogue) | |
Lyrics | You could be my silver springs (Silver Springs; performing artist: Fleetwood Mac) Burning like a silver flame (Venus; performing artist: Bananarama) A silver thorn, a bloody rose (Vincent; performing artist: Don McLean) Than silver or gold (Fame and Fortune; performing artist: Elvis Presley) I licked the silver spoon (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast) | |
Clever | No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver, or purple. (references; author: unknown) New friends are silver; old friends are gold. Always make new friends, but don't forget the old. (references; author: unknown) Keep your head in the clouds. You're the first to know when it rains, and it's easier to see the silver lining. (references; author: unknown) You may be born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but you need gold-hearted people to make your life more tasty. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Silver City (1969) Scarlet Blade Silver Knife (1969) The Silver Burro (1963) Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates (1962) The Clue of the Silver Key (1961) | |
Song Titles | Silver Springs (performing artist: Fleetwood Mac) Silver Whistle (performing artist: Prior/Tabor) Silver Threads and Golden Needles (performing artist: The Spingfields) | |
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 | This photomicrograph reveals central nervous system syphilis, causing general paresis, or paretic neurosyphilis. Numerous treponemes can be identified using silver impregnation technique; magnification 950X. Credit: CDC. |  | Leptospira bacteria are visible at right. Dieterle silver stain. Credit: CDC. |
 | Francis X. Popper Observing salinity measurements on the EXPLORER Served in Philippines in WWII and received Silver Star and Bronze Star Medals. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Silver sword growing on Mt. Haleakala. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Old Silver Beach, West Falmouth. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Silver or Coho salmon, adult male. In: "The Fishes of Alaska." Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVI, 1906. P. 360, Plate XXXI. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | The gillnet catch being brought in. The species being fished for included, blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis; silver perch, Bairdiella chrysoura; atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannosaurus; weakfish, Cynoscion regalis; Atlantic croaker, Micropogonus undulatus; white perch, Morone americanus; striped bass or rockfish, Morone saxatilis and; bluefish, Ponatomus saltatrix. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Shiner Perch, Cymtogaster aggregata, is found in shallow waters during summer months and in waters up to 146 meters in the winter. Body length is up to 21 cm with females growing larger than males. The body is bright silver with broken longitudinal dark stripes separated by three vertical yellow bars. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Figure 62. Breguet-Saxton metallic thermometer first invented about 1817 by the instrument maker Louis Abraham Breguet. The first of this type was composed of platinum, silver, and gold with the silver placed in the center. Differential expansion of the metals provided the temperature measurement. In 1848, Joseph Saxton made a similar one for the U. S. Coast Survey but it was inaccurate. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 22. Chemical elements that are dissolved in sea water. Major elements are sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, silicon, carbon, sulfur, oxygen, chlorine, bromine, and iodine. Minor elements are titanium, nitrogen, phosphorus , arsenic, boron, rubidium, cesium, lithium, strontium, barium, zinc, copper, silver, gold, aluminum, lead, manganese, iron, cobalt, and nickel. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Silver Ring" by Conor Tapp Commentary: "A silver ring." | "Silver crown" by URBAN CREATOR Commentary: "Obscure silver crown against cracked red painted wall." |
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 | A silver dollar dropped onto a hard, flat surface. |
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Author Unknown | Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold. |
Benjamin Franklin | Genius without education is like silver in the mine. |
Dwight L. Moody | God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. |
Maurice Seitter | Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. |
Miguel de Cervantes | Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. |
P.T. Barnum | Every crowd has a silver lining. |
Richter | Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold or silver, it attracts with tenfold power. |
Robert Browning | Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters. |
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John Locke | 1690 | This partage of things in an inequality of private possessions, men have made practicable out of the bounds of society, and without compact, only by putting a value on gold and silver, and tacitly agreeing in the use of money: for in governments, the laws regulate the right of property, and the possession of land is determined by positive constitutions. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany agrees to transfer to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers any title that she may have to the sum in gold and silver transmitted by her to the Turkish Ministry of Finance in November, 1918, in anticipation of the payment to be made in May, 1919, for the service of the Turkish Internal Loan. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | I have some notion of putting such a trimming as this to my white and silver poplin |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was not without difficulty that the chloruretted lotions and the nitrate of silver brought the gangrene to an end. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And Stephen smiled too for he knew now that it was not true that Mr Casey had a purse of silver in his throat |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He took off his silver hat and wiped his forehead with his palm |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In one of my fobs there was a silver watch, and in the other a small quantity of gold in a purse |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, nor is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent |
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Health | Silver and gold spray paints, which contain more toluene than other spray colors, also are popular inhalants. (references) | |
Business | Another option is to wear silver rings to mark the engagement and replace them by gold rings at the wedding. (references) | |
Close to 1,500 kilograms of gold and 10,000 kilograms of silver are mined a year, and 870,000 tons of cement are produced annually. (references) | ||
Close to 3,282 lbs. Of gold and 21,882 lbs. Of silver are mined a year. In addition, 870,000 tons of cement are produced annually. (references) | ||
Economic History | Dominican Republic | Nonfuel minerals (2% of GDP): Nickel, gold, silver. (references) |
Mexico | Gold, silver, and lead are mined and processed in two plants. (references) | |
Mexico | Other minerals include silver, graphite, barite, zinc, gold and tungsten. (references) | |
Trade | El Salvador | K. Plain silver coins of less than 0.900 purity. (references) |
Ireland | Hallmarking of gold and silver articles is required before they can be offered for sale. (references) | |
Portugal | Jewelry and other articles of gold, silver or platinum must be assayed and hallmarked in Portugal by the assayer's office in Lisbon or Porto. (references) | |
Travel | Indonesia | In Jakarta, Blue Bird family of taxis (and the sister Silver and Golden Bird luxury taxis) are considered to be the safest and most reliable and they can be summoned by telephone (794-1234). (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. |
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Norman Mineta | Well, first of all, bag-match is not the silver bullet all by itself. As I indicated earlier, security is a multi-layered approach. And the law itself that Congress passed gave us a blueprint in terms of mandates of how we should screen baggage. |
Rush Limbaugh | Remember, the Sudanese government offered to hand Clinton Osama bin Laden's head on a silver platter, and Clinton didn't want him. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The supply of gold and silver, the general medium of exchange, has been greatly interrupted by civil convulsions in the countries from which they are principally drawn. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | General McCaffrey has earned three purple hearts and two silver stars fighting for America. |
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| "Silver" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.58% of the time. "Silver" is used about 2,648 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.58% | 1,763 | 4,776 |
| Noun (proper) | 27.5% | 728 | 9,273 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.62% | 149 | 25,810 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.26% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,648 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "silver" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Silver | Last name | 9,000 | 1,424 |
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| "Silver" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be silver". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "silver". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Sippai | N/A | Biblical | Silver cup |
| Silver | Male, Female | English | To be silver |
| Simin | Female | Iranian | To be silver |
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| Canada | Pan American Silver Corpn | Greece | Silver & Baryte Ores Mining Co. S.A. |
| Hong Kong | Silver Grant International Industries Ltd. | Japan | Silver Ox, Inc. |
| USA | Silver Assets, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Silver, TX |
Expressions using "silver": Ale silver ♦ American silver fir ♦ arsenical silver ♦ bait with a silver hook ♦ be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth ♦ be born with a silver spoon in the mouth ♦ become like silver ♦ Black silver ♦ born with a silver spoon in one's mouth ♦ brittle silver glance ♦ brittle silver ore ♦ Caustic silver ♦ chased silver ♦ coin silver ♦ dark red silver ore ♦ dark ruby silver ♦ electroplated nickel silver ♦ european silver fir ♦ every cloud has a silver lining ♦ every cloud has its silver lining ♦ every dark cloud has a silver lining ♦ flat silver ♦ Free silver ♦ fulminate of silver ♦ Fulminating silver ♦ German silver ♦ Glove silver ♦ Gray silver ♦ he's born with a silver spoon in his mouth ♦ Horn silver ♦ King's silver ♦ leaf silver ♦ Little Silver ♦ made of silver ♦ mild silver protein ♦ money or silver ♦ native silver ♦ nickel silver ♦ nitrate of silver ♦ Pacific silver fir ♦ paint silver ♦ piece of silver ♦ red silver ♦ red silver fir ♦ Ruby silver ♦ silver age ♦ silver anniversary ♦ silver ash ♦ Silver Bay ♦ silver beater ♦ silver beech ♦ silver beet ♦ silver bell ♦ silver berry ♦ silver birch ♦ silver Book ♦ Silver Bow County ♦ silver bromide ♦ silver bromide paper ♦ silver bullet ♦ silver bush ♦ Silver C ♦ silver certificate ♦ silver chloride ♦ silver chub ♦ silver City ♦ Silver Cliff ♦ silver coin ♦ Silver Compounds ♦ silver content ♦ Silver Creek ♦ silver cutlery ♦ silver dollar ♦ silver dust ♦ silver eel ♦ silver fern ♦ silver film ♦ silver fir ♦ silver fish ♦ silver foil ♦ silver fox ♦ silver gar ♦ silver gilt ♦ silver glance ♦ silver grain ♦ silver grass ♦ silver gray ♦ silver grebe ♦ silver grey ♦ Silver Grove ♦ silver hair ♦ silver hake ♦ silver halide process ♦ silver ink ♦ silver iodide ♦ silver jenny ♦ silver jewelry ♦ silver jubilee ♦ silver lace ♦ silver lace vine ♦ Silver Lake. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "silver": silver-backed, silver-banded, silver-beaded, silver-bearded, silver-bearing, silver-bell tree, silver-birch, silver-blond, silver-blonde, silver-blue, silver-bound, silver-bright, silver-bubble, silver-buckled, silver-chased, silver-chaser, silver-collared, silver-coloured, silver-content, silver-copper-sulphide, silver-covered, silver-edged, silver-encrusted, silver-fish, silver-flecked, silver-flooded, silver-foil, silver-foliaged, silver-framed, silver-frosted, silver-gilded, silver-gilt, silver-gold, silver-grain, Silver-gray, silver-gray fox, silver-green, silver-grey, silver-greys, silver-haired, silver-handled, silver-headed, silver-helmed, silver-inlaid, silver-knobbed, silver-lace, silver-lead, silver-leaf, silver-leafed, silver-leaved, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silver-leaved poplar, silver-lined, silver-loaded, silver-medal, silver-medallist, silver-mercury, silver-mesh, silver-mines, silver-mounted, silver-painted, silver-paper, silver-papered, silver-plate, silver-plated, silver-polishing, silver-rich, silver-rimmed, silver-sandalled, silver-screen, silver-sheathed, silver-shod, silver-shoed, silver-shot, silver-side, silver-sided, silver-silver, silver-skipper, silver-skirted, silver-soldered, silver-spoon, silver-spooned, silver-spotted, silver-sprayed, silver-stained, silver-staining, silver-stamped, Silver-stone, silver-store, silver-streaked, silver-sulphide, silver-thread, silver-threaded, silver-tinted, silver-tipped, silver-tongued, silver-top, silver-topped, silver-train, silver-veined, silver-ware, silver-washed, silver-white, silver-wimpled, silver-winged, silver-wiring. | |
Ending with "silver": bar-silver, black-and-silver, cat-silver, cloth-of-silver, copper-silver, ever-silver, gelatin-silver, glitter-silver, gold-and-silver, gold-silver, greyish-silver, grey-silver, lead-zinc-silver, linen-and-silver, nickel-silver, polished-silver, quick-silver, Rep-silver, re-silver, silver-silver, solid-silver, sterling-silver, storm-silver, tan-and-silver. | |
Containing "silver": Butte-Silver Bow, Suitland-Silver Hill. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sea silver | 2,693 | silver price | 412 |
silver dollar city | 2,419 | silver eagle | 397 |
silver spring md | 2,263 | long dong silver | 395 |
silver | 2,247 | silver lake | 386 |
silver jewelry | 1,434 | silver coin | 383 |
colloidal silver | 1,186 | morgan silver dollar | 377 |
cheyenne silver | 950 | sterling silver ring | 375 |
sterling silver jewelry | 908 | silver jewelry wholesale | 374 |
long john silver | 842 | c silver | 357 |
sterling silver | 827 | silver springs | 355 |
pokemon cheat and gold and silver | 757 | silver certificate | 351 |
pokemon silver | 716 | silver chain | 351 |
pokemon silver cheat | 695 | pokemon silver walk through | 336 |
silver city | 632 | silver star | 281 |
sterling silver charm | 575 | silver jean | 269 |
silver legacy | 505 | silver bracelet | 248 |
silver ring | 484 | silver plating | 233 |
silver dollar | 473 | silver necklace | 220 |
silver charm | 431 | silver legacy reno | 217 |
silver surfer | 430 | antique silver | 208 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "silver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | silwer. (various references) | |
Albanian | argjend (argent, siller). (various references) | |
Arabic | فضي الرنة, فضي (argentic, argentine, lunar, silvery), فضض, فضة (argent), فضاني (silvery), نقود (brass, dibs, rock, shekels), قطع نقدية, طلى بالفضة (plate), طبق فضي للمائدة. (various references) | |
Aymara | qollqe. (various references) | |
Basque | zilar, diru. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | siksí'ksskimm. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ясен (articulate, ash, ash-tree, bright, clean-cut, clear, coherent, crystal, distinct, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter of course, neat, obvious, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, readable, robust, serene, sharp, silvery, Square, straight, straightaway, straightforward, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unshadowed, vivid), сребърни монети, сребърни предмети, сребърен цвят (argent), сребърен блясък, сребърен (argentine, lunar, silvern), сребро (argent, plate), сребрея, сребрист (silvern, silvery), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), амалгамирам (foliate), посребрявам (become like silver, plate, silver plate), дребни пари (change, petty cash, small change). (various references) | |
Catalan | plata. (various references) | |
Chamorro | plata. (various references) | |
Chinese | 銀 , 银 (Argent), 白銀 . (various references) | |
Czech | stříbro, stříbrný (siller). (various references) | |
