gold

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.

   • You like to hear about gold. A king filled his prison room As full as the room could hold To the top of his reach on the wall With every known shape of the stuff. ’Twas to buy himself off his doom.
2. 2

   A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.

   • The pirates were searching for gold.
3. 3

   A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.

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   1. 4

      The bullseye of an archery target.

      • Daniel hit the gold to win the contest.
   2. 5

      A gold medal.

      • France has won three golds and five silvers.
   3. 6

      Anything or anyone that is very valuable.

      • That food mixer you gave me is absolute gold, mate!
      • Now obviously this meant that I went over my allotted time, but the theatre management didn't mind because I was giving them comedy gold and that's what gets bums on seats.
      • Marge Quincey didn't deserve a husband like his dad. He was pure gold, and she wasn't worth a light beside him.
   4. 7

      A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.

   5. 8

      ☉ (alchemy)

   6. 9

      Made of gold.

      • a gold chain
   7. 10

      Having the colour of gold.

      • gold sticker
      • gold socks
      • Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
   8. 11

      Premium, superior.

   9. 12

      Of a musical recording

      Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.

      • The album went gold, then platinum, thanks to a second hit single, "It's A Miracle".
   10. 13

       Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is…

       Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is immediately available for to read for free with no embargo period.

       • Coordinate term: green
       • Scholars who make their work green open access rather than gold never pay a fee to do so. Even when they choose the gold route, only 33% of peer-reviewed open access journals charge author-side fees.
   11. 14

       To appear or cause to appear golden.

       • You are the sun at Noon, that golds the barley, and pulls the bee to the ling on the moor.
       • Worked wonders, knowing a thing like that. Golded up your hair, even, for all your record said indeterminate. Golded up the whole world, really.
   12. 15

       In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.

       • The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.
       • He felt bone-tired and twitchy, the way he did in the final stages of putting a video-game project together, almost ready to go gold and turn a new game loose on the public.
       • I had coded guilds into M59 over the weekend, shortly before we were supposed to go gold.
   13. 16

       of or referring to a gold version of something

   14. 17

       An English surname originating as an occupation for a goldsmith or a rich man.

   15. 18

       A member of the Goldi or Nanai people.

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