Silver (disambiguation)

Silver (disambiguation)

Silver is a chemical element.

Silver may also refer to:

* Silver (color), a metallic shade resembling gray

In economics

* Silver as an investment
* Silver Certificate, a form of paper currency formerly used in the United States
* Silver coin
* Silver standard, a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of silver

In entertainment

In gaming

* "Pokémon Silver", a Game Boy video game
* Silver (video game), a video game on PC and Dreamcast
* Silber (Buriki One) or silver, a character in the SNK Fighting Games Buriki-One and The King of Fighters XI
* Silver the Hedgehog, a video game character in "Sonic the Hedgehog" series of games

In literature

* "The Silver Sequence" trilogy of books
* Long John Silver in "Treasure Island"
* The "Silver Brumby" series of children's books about a horse by Elyne Mitchell

In music

* "Silver" (Johnny Cash album), an album by Johnny Cash
* "Silver" (Cheap Trick album), a live album by Cheap Trick
* "Silver" (EP), an EP and a song by Jesu
* Silver (band), a band who had one hit with the song "Wham Bam" during the 1970s
* Silver (dance music), the alias of Italian DJ/producer Mario Jannelli
* "Silver" (song), is a song by Echo & The Bunnymen
* Silver Ash, China's first Visual Kei band
* Silver Apples, a band
* Silver Bullet (rapper), a British rapper

In television and film

* Silver (horse), The Lone Ranger's white stallion
* "Silver Spoons", a sitcom
* Silver Nemesis, the twenty-fifth anniversary story for the British science fiction series Doctor Who
* Erin "Silver" Silver, a character in the CW's 90210

Events

* Silver Jubilee, a celebration held to mark a 25th anniversary
* Silver rush, the silver equivalent of a gold rush

Materials

* Silver (household), domestic cutlery, tableware, "plate", etc
* Britannia silver, an alloy containing 95.84% silver
* Coin silver, an alloy having 900 Millesimal fineness
* Colloidal silver, a colloid of silver particles in water
* Gelatin-silver process, a photographic process
* Nickel silver
* Silver sulfide
* Sheffield plate, a sandwich of copper between sheets of silver alloy
* Sterling silver, an alloy usually containing 92.5% silver
* Vark, silver coating used in food preparations (mainly cakes and Indian sweets)
* Silversmith

Organisms

Animals

* Silvered Antbird
* Silver-beaked Tanager
* Silver-haired bat
* Silver-spotted Skipper
* Silver-throated Tanager
* Silver-tipped Myotis
* Silver-washed Fritillary

Plants

* Silver Birch
* Silver Fir
* Silver Maple

People

* Silver RavenWolf, an American author and lecturer who focuses on Neopaganism
* Abba Hillel Silver, a Lithuanian-American rabbi
* Cheyenne Silver, an American pornographic actress
* George Silver (Scotland), a Scottish agricultural innovator
* Joel Silver, a Jewish-American Hollywood film producer
* Josh Silver, keyboardist and producer for the band Type O Negative
* Horace Silver, an American jazz pianist and composer
* Sheldon Silver, an Orthodox Jewish resident of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, speaker of the New York State Assembly
* Warren M. Silver, an American lawyer and state supreme court justice in Maine

Places

* Silver, South Carolina
* Silver, Texas
* Silver Plume, Colorado
* Silver Grove, Kentucky
* Silver Brook Township, Minnesota
* Silver Township, Minnesota
* Silver Islet, Ontario
* Silver City, New Mexico
* The Silver Line (MBTA) of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
* The planned Silver Line (Washington Metro) of the Washington Metro
* The Jubilee Line of the London Underground, which is mapped in the color silver

Other

* Silver age, a period within a history, typically a lesser and later successor to a golden age
* Silver Dart, an early aircraft
* Silver goal, a method used in association football
* Silver medal, an award given to the runner-up of contests
* Silver Republican Party, a United States political faction active in the 1890s
* Silver Party, a Nevada political party active in the 1890s
* Operation Silver, a British intelligence operation

See also

* Silverman, a surname


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