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gold(1) (iou)



gold noun1 & adjective.
[Old English gold = Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German gold (Dutch goud, German Gold), Old Norse goll, gull, Gothic gulT, ult. from Indo-European base of YELLOW adjective.]
A. noun.
A precious metal which is characterized by its yellowish colour, resistance to tarnishing and corrosion, and great malleability and ductility, and is a chemical element of the transition series, atomic no. 79 (symbol Au). Also (with specifying word), any of various substances containing, resembling, or imitating, this. OE.
fairy gold, fool's gold, mosaic gold, red gold, roman gold, white gold, etc.
b. = gold medal below. M20.
Sunday Express When British teams could only come second at best, our singular athletes kept on grabbing Golds.
Gold as a valuable possession or as a medium of exchange; coin(s) made of gold, money in large sums; gen. wealth. OE.
A. Hailey If I were an Arab I'd refuse paper dollars for my oil and demand gold.
b. Finance. A share in a gold-mining company. E20.
Times Golds were a few cents down.
c. Marijuana. slang. L20.
Gold used to ornament textiles; thread or wire wholly or partly made of gold. Formerly also, fabric embroidered with or partly made of gold. OE.
E. Wilson Various companies put out a gold you can sew with.
b. Gold used as a pigment or coating; gilding. LME.
fig. Something precious, beautiful, or brilliant. ME.
The colour of gold. LME.
G. Macdonald Gazing at the red and gold and green of the sunset sky.
Archery. The gilt centre or bull's eye of a target. L19.
b. adjective.
Made wholly or chiefly of gold. ME.
A. Mason It was a small gold satyr, set with gems, supporting a sweetmeat tray.
Coloured like gold. ME.
Anne Stevenson Then the hills fill with gold wheat.
Finance. Of a currency: reckoned at its full undepreciated value according to a gold standard. E20.
Phrases: age of gold a golden age. as good as gold: see GOOD adjective. black gold: see BLACK adjective. cloth of gold: see CLOTH noun 4. coronary gold: see CORONARY adjective 2. go gold (of a piece of recorded Music) achieve Sales meriting a gold disc. heart of gold: see HEART noun. old gold (of) the dulled yellow colour of old gold. pot of gold: see POT noun1. worth its weight in gold, worth one's weight in gold: see WEIGHT noun.
Comb. & special collocations: gold amalgam an easily mouldable combination of gold with mercury; gold-beater a person who beats out gold into gold leaf; gold-beater's skin, an animal membrane used to separate the leaves of gold during beating and (formerly) to cover slight wounds; gold bloc the bloc of countries having a gold standard; gold blocking the stamping of a gold leaf design on a book cover using a block or heated die; gold brick (a) a brick made or apparently made of gold; fig. a thing with only a surface appearance of value, a sham, a fraud; (b) US slang a lazy person, a shirker; gold-brick verb (a) verb trans. cheat, swindle; (b) verb intrans. shirk, have an easy time; gold bridge: see BRIDGE noun1; gold bug (chiefly US) (a) an advocate of a single gold standard; (b) a person favouring gold as an investment; gold card (proprietary name for) a preferential credit or charge card conferring special benefits on the holder; gold certificate US a certificate or note issued by the US Treasury to the Federal Reserve Banks and (now rarely) the public certifying that gold to the amount stated on the face of the certificate has been deposited and is redeemable; goldcrest a tiny olive-green Eurasian kinglet, Regulus regulus, having a bright yellow crown; gold-dig verb trans. (slang) extract money from; gold-digger (a) a person who digs for gold; (b) slang a woman who flirts etc. with a man solely with intent to extract money from him; gold disc a framed golden disc awarded to a recording artist or group for Sales of a recording exceeding a million in the US or 500,000 in Britain for a single, or 500,000 in the US or 250,000 in Britain for an album; gold-dust (a) gold in very fine particles; (b) either of two low-growing Garden plants with many small yellow flowers, the alyssum Alyssum saxatile and the stonecrop Sedum acre; gold-eye an edible N. American freshwater fish, Hiodon alosoides, silvery-blue in colour with a conspicuous golden iris; gold-fever the rage for going in search of gold; goldfinch any of several finches of the genus Carduelis with yellow in the plumage, esp. the Eurasian C. carduelis and the N. American C. tristis; goldfinny = goldsinny below; goldfish a fish with golden coloration or markings; now spec. a small reddish-golden Chinese carp, Carassius auratus, freq. kept as an ornamental fish or as a pet; goldfish bowl, a usu. globe-shaped glass bowl for keeping goldfish; fig. a place or situation with no privacy; gold foil gold beaten into a thin sheet, slightly thicker than gold leaf; gold fringe a small pink and yellow pyralid moth, Hypsopygia costalis; gold leaf gold beaten into a fragile wafer-thin sheet, thinner than gold foil, and used esp. in gilding; gold medal a gold-coloured medal awarded for a first place in a contest, esp. the modern Olympic Games; gold-mine a mine from which gold is obtained; fig. a source of wealth, income, or profit; gold of pleasure a yellow cruciferous European weed, Camelina sativa, grown sometimes for its oil-rich seeds; gold plate (a) vessels made of gold; (b) material plated with gold; gold record = gold disc above; gold reserve: of gold coin or bullion held by a central authority, bank, etc.; gold-rush: to gold-fields in search of gold; gold salt a salt of gold; esp. in Pharmacology, any of several compounds containing gold and sulphur used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and lupus erythematosus; goldsinny any of several small European wrasses, esp. Ctenolabrus rupestris; goldsmith a worker in gold, a manufacturer of gold articles, (formerly acting also as a banker); goldsmith beetle, any of various scarabaeid beetles having wing-cases with a metallic golden lustre; esp. (a) the rose chafer; (b) the N. American Cotalpa lanigera, a pest of deciduous forests; gold standard: see STANDARD noun; Gold Stick (the bearer of) the gilt rod borne on State occasions by the colonel of the Life Guards or their successors the Household Cavalry Regiment, or the captain of the gentlemen-at-arms; gold thread (a) thread of silk etc. with gold wire wound round it; (b) (usu. goldthread) (the root of) a plant, Coptis trifolia of the buttercup family, native to Alaska and NE Asia, with thin yellow rhizomes used in medicines or dyes; goldwork gold objects collectively.
goldish adjective somewhat golden LME.
goldless adjective without gold LME.

Silly Season - Motor Sports (gambling)


Slang for the period that begins during the latter part of the current season, wherein some teams announce driver, crew, and/or sponsor changes for the following year.