YELLOW
\jˈɛlə͡ʊ], \jˈɛləʊ], \j_ˈɛ_l_əʊ]\
Definitions of YELLOW
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(archaic) showing or experiencing a state of disordered feeling or distorted judgment as through bitterness or melancholy; "all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye"-Alexander Pope
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typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow journalism"
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cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"
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changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow journalism"
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cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"
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changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"
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easily frightened
By Princeton University
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Cowardly; hence, dishonorable; mean; contemptible; as, he has a yellow streak.
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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.
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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.
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A yellow pigment.
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To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.
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To become yellow or yellower.
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Sensational; - said of some newspapers, their makers, etc.; as, yellow journal, journalism, etc.
By Oddity Software
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Cowardly; hence, dishonorable; mean; contemptible; as, he has a yellow streak.
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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.
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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.
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A yellow pigment.
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To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.
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To become yellow or yellower.
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Sensational; - said of some newspapers, their makers, etc.; as, yellow journal, journalism, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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Of the color of gold, sulphur, etc.; slang, cowardly or dishonorable; as, the slacker showed his yellow streak; colloquially sensational: said of some newspapers; as, yellow journals are not to be depended on.
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The third color of the rainbow, between orange and green; any dye or paint that colors things yellow; the yolk of an egg.
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To make or become yellow.
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Yellowness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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Yellowness.
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Having the color of brass, gold, etc.
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The color of the spectrum between green and orange.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A color, that of gold or butter, occupying a position in the spectrum between green and orange.
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Having the color of butter or gold, flavescent. xanthic; flavus, luteus; in composition xantho.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Being of the colour of gold.
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A bright colour, like that of gold, which, after white, reflects more light than any other colour, and occurs in the solar spectrum between green and orange.
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To make yellow.
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To become yellow. Yellow Bachelor's Buttons, the double garden variety of the plant ranunculus repens.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.