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Substantiivi
- 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.
- (US) 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.
- (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
- (pocket billiards) 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).
- (sports) A yellow card.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.
Huudahdus
- (BDSM, procedure word) Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.
Verbi
- (intransitive) To become yellow or yellower.
- (transitive) To make (something) yellow or yellower.
- (transitive, historical, Royal Navy) To promote (a captain) to flag rank without command of a squadron, ending his career; to make him a yellow admiral.
Adjektiivi
- Of a yellow hue.
- (informal) Lacking courage.
- (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
- (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
- (dated, US) Synonym of high yellow.
- (UK politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
- (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.
Esimerkit
- A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.
- The line of yellow light dies fast away.
- There's a one-eyed yellow idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the yellow god for ever gazes down.
- dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. [...] Golden or reddish-yellow [...] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] [...] tokeneþ febleness of hete [...] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.}}
- You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
- 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.
- Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.
- 2012 March 2, Andrew Grice, "Yellow rebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal'", The Independent
- yellow constituencies
- The black-yellow coalition
- 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.
- Andrew Surman fired in what proved to be a 37th-minute winner before Forest's Paul Konchesky saw red late on. That second yellow for the loan signing came in stoppage time and did not affect the outcome of a game which Norwich dominated.
- Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
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