Yellow

['jeləʊ] or ['jɛlo]

Definition

(noun.) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons.

(verb.) turn yellow; 'The pages of the book began to yellow'.

(adj.) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk .

(adj.) cowardly or treacherous; 'the little yellow stain of treason'-M.W.Straight; 'too yellow to stand and fight' .

(adj.) changed to a yellowish color by age; 'yellowed parchment' .

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Definition

(superl.) Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.

(n.) A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green.

(n.) A yellow pigment.

(v. t.) To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.

(v. i.) To become yellow or yellower.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Golden, FULVOUS, FULVID, gold-colored.

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Definition

adj. of a bright gold colour.—n. a bright golden colour: (pl.) the peach-yellows (see Peach): (Shak.) jaundice in horses.—v.t. to make yellow.—v.i. to become yellow.—adjs. Yell′ow-backed -bell′ied -billed -breast′ed -cov′ered -crowned -eyed -foot′ed -front′ed -head′ed -horned -legged -necked -polled -ringed -rumped -shoul′dered -spot′ted &c.—ns. Yell′ow-bird one of various birds of a yellow colour—the golden oriole summer-warbler &c.; Yell′ow-boy a gold coin: a mulatto or dark quadroon:—fem. Yell′ow-girl; Yell′ow-bunt′ing the yellow-hammer; Yell′ow-earth a yellow ochre sometimes used as a pigment; Yell′ow-fē′ver a pestilential contagious fever of a continuous and special type presenting at least two well-defined stages the first occupying 36 to 150 hours marked by a rapid circulation and high temperature; the second being characterised by general depression and black vomit—also known as Yellow Jack Bronze John El Vomito and Vomito Prieto or Vomito Amarilli; Yell′ow-flag a flag of a yellow colour displayed by a vessel in quarantine or over a military hospital or ambulance; Yell′ow-gum the mel鎛a or black jaundice of infants; Yell′ow-hamm′er -amm′er a song-bird so named from its yellow colour: the common yellow-bunting.—adj. Yell′owish somewhat yellow.—ns. Yell′owishness; Yell′ow-met′al a brass consisting of sixty parts copper and forty parts zinc; Yell′owness; Yell′ow-root an American herb whose root-stock yields berberine—also Orange-root Goldenseal; Yell′ow-soap common soap composed of tallow resin and soda; Yell′ow-wash a lotion consisting of a mixture of mercuric chloride and lime-water; Yell′ow-weed weld; Yell′ow-wood a name given to Fustic and many other trees—e.g. satin-wood and various kinds of podocarpus rhus xanthoxylum &c.; Yell′ow-wort an annual of the gentian family—also Yell′ow-cen′taury.—adj. Yell′owy yellowish.—ns. Yell′ow-yol′dring -yor′ling or -yow′ley the European yellow-hammer.—Yellow berries Persian berries.

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