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Definition of Green light

1. Noun. A signal to proceed.

2. Noun. Permission to proceed with a project or to take action. "The gave the green light for construction to begin"

Definition of Green light

1. Noun. A traffic light in its green state (indicating that vehicles may proceed). ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) approval, or permission to proceed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Light

green gram green groceries green haemoglobin green hairstreak green hairstreaks green hellebore green hellebores green in the gills green jersey green labelling

green lacewing green lane green lead ore green leek green leeks green light (current term) green lights green line green lizard green logging

green lung green lungs green mamba green man green manure green market green mayonnaise green men green monkey green monkey disease

Literary usage of Green light

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"showed a second torch-light, and a green light (except when not visible, by reason of the glare of the torch-light, which, however, would not burn but a few ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"This cannot, of course, be done with inks, since if we print green ink over red the result will not he a mixture of red light and green light, but almost ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"This cannot, of course, be done with inks, since if we print green ink over red the result will not be a mixture of red light and green light, but almost ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1889)
"Now by means of the cord close the small shutter, thus excluding the green light, rest the eye thoroughly, and then apply it to the tube. ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1878)
"green light acted quickly on the red rods, but apparently caused the green ones to increase in number. Blue and violet rays acted like green. ..."

6. Principles and Practice of Electrical Engineering by Alexander Gray (1917)
"A yellow light is therefore the most efficient for high intensity illumination and a green light the most efficient for low intensities; these colors ..."

7. The American Annual of Photography (1909)
"Thus a sensation of "light blue" is produced by a mixture of green light and blue-violet light falling upon the eye, the red light being more or less absent ..."

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