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Yellow   /jˈɛloʊ/   Listen
Yellow

adjective
(compar. yellower; superl. yellowest)
1.
Of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk.  Synonyms: xanthous, yellowish.
2.
Easily frightened.  Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied.
3.
Changed to a yellowish color by age.  Synonym: yellowed.
4.
Typical of tabloids.  Synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic.  "Yellow press"
5.
Cowardly or treacherous.  "Too yellow to stand and fight"
6.
Affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc.  Synonyms: icteric, jaundiced.
noun
1.
Yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons.  Synonym: yellowness.
verb
(past & past part. yellowed; pres. part. yellowing)
1.
Turn yellow.



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"Yellow" Quotes from Famous Books



... hanging them in pairs across rails, where they could further dry, until they were carried to the granary. In the mealy fields, indeed, can be seen the corn in all stages, some just rising above the ground, and the full-grown stalks of others bending with the weight of their yellow heads. ...
— Hendricks the Hunter - The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand • W.H.G. Kingston

... different parts of the house, and this condition may be turned to advantage. The beginner, however, is more likely to keep his house too hot than too cool. He may seem at first to be getting a fine quick growth, and then wonders why things begin to be lanky, and yellow, forgetting that his plants can get no air to breathe, except what he is careful enough to give to them. For the majority of those plants which the beginner is likely to try—geraniums, petunias, begonias, fuchsias, abutilon, heliotrope, ...
— Gardening Indoors and Under Glass • F. F. Rockwell

... of Gettysburg. Those who were too badly wounded to be moved were left in charge of Surgeons, detailed by the Medical Directors to remain with the wounded. Surgeons in the discharge of their duties are never made prisoners, and the yellow flag flies as much protection as the white. A guard is placed around the hospitals to prevent those who may convalesce while there from escaping, but notwithstanding this vigilance many made their escape and came south, as the soldiers had ...
— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert

... came down reluctantly, snow-burned, snow-estranged, to the house in the hollow, between the knuckles of the mountain tops. He saw its lights shining yellow, and he held back, wishing he need not go in, to confront those people, to hear the turmoil of voices and to feel the confusion of other presences. He was isolated as if there were a vacuum round his heart, or a sheath ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... entrance to the Red Sea. This brought all of our party on deck to greet the sunrise, and as we passed between the rockbound coast of Arabia on the right and the Island of Perin on the left we could hear the roar of the breakers and discern the yellow and faint light of the beacons that were still burning on the shore. That morning at 10 o'clock we steamed by the white walls and gleaming towers of the City of Mocha, that lay far away on the Arabian coast, looking ...
— A Ball Player's Career - Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson • Adrian C. Anson


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