Silver is a metal; see silver. The word silver also often refers to the distinctive color, silver (color).

Other senses include:

Element

Compounds and alloys of the element silver:

• Silver sulphide
• Nickel silver
• Britannia silver, an alloy containing 95.84% silver
• Sterling silver, an alloy usually containing 92.5% silver
• Sheffield plate, a sandwich of copper between sheets of silver alloy
• Coin silver, an alloy usually containing 90% silver

Related uses:

• Colloidal silver, a colloid of silver particles in water
• household silver, dishware, cutlery and other household items made of silver
• Gelatin-silver process, a photographic process
• Silver medal, award given to the runner-up of contests

Names

Silver is a common surname. People with the name include:

• Abba Hillel Silver, Lithuanian-US rabbi
• Horace Silver
• Joel Silver
• Stacy Silver
• Terry Silver
• Warren Silver

As first name:

• Silver Ravenwolf

As art-name:

• Silver aka Silverino

Events

• Silver Age
• Silver jubilee
• Silver rush, the silver equivalent of a gold rush.

Places

• Silver Plume, Colorado
• Silver Grove, Kentucky
• Silver Brook Township, Minnesota
• Silver Township, Minnesota
• Silver Islet, Ontario
• Silver City, New Mexico

• The Silver Line of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
• The planned Silver Line of the Washington Metro
• The Jubilee Line of the London Underground, mapped in the color silver

Organisms

Plants:

• Silver Birch
• Silver Fir
• Silver Maple

Animals:

• Silvered antbird

Uses in economics

• Silver as an investment
• Silver certificate
• Silver coin
• Silver standard

Uses in arts and entertainment

• The Silver Apples, a band
• The Silver Sequence trilogy of books
• Silver Spoons, a sitcom
• Pokémon Silver, a Game Boy video game
• Silver Dragon, used in the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons
• Silver (Indra Lesmana album), greatest hits album by Indonesian musician Indra Lesmana
• Silver (horse), The Lone Ranger's white stallion.
• Silver (game), a video game on PC and Dreamcast
• Silver (Buriki-One), also known as Silber, is a character in the SNK Fighting Games Buriki-One and The King of Fighters XI.
• Silver (song), a song by Pixies, from their album Doolittle
• Silver the Hedgehog, a video game character in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 game)
• Silver (group), had one hit with "Wham Bam" during the 1970s.

Miscellaneous

• Silver goal, a method used in association football
• AEA Silver Dart, an early aircraft
• Operation Silver, a British intelligence operation

See also

• Silverman

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