yellow

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

yellows

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

yellower

Superlative

yellowest

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.

   • It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw, not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.

2. 2.The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.

   • A few of the balls are yellow.
   • No, the flowers are not green, but red, white, yellow or blue.

3. 3.One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.

   • A few of the balls are yellow.
   • No, the flowers are not green, but red, white, yellow or blue.

4. 4.One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).

   • A few of the balls are yellow.
   • No, the flowers are not green, but red, white, yellow or blue.

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Lacking courage.(informal)

   • You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
   • What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.

2. 2.Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.

   • The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.

3. 3.Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.(offensive)

   • They were all tall and all handsome, though they varied in their degree of darkness of skin, some being as dark as Mahomed, and some as yellow as a Chinese.

4. 4.Of a yellow hue.

   • He had a yellow laptop in his bag.
   • A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.
   • Red o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.

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