Yellowname

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  A surname.

yellownoun詞源 1/ˈjɛləʊ/

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  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.
  • Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 and yellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be contaminated with known carcinogens.
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  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.

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  ball-gamesgameshobbiesOne of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.

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  gamespocket-billiardsOne 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).

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  hobbieslifestylesportsA yellow card.

  • 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.
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  Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.

  • Several other beautiful butterflies rewarded my search in this place [...] The most abundant butterflies were the whites and yellows (Pieridae), several of which I had already found at Lombock and at Coupang, while others were new to me.

yellowadj詞源 1/ˈjɛləʊ/

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  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.
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  informalLacking courage.

  • 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.
  • You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
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  journalismmediapublishingCharacterized 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.
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  offensivederogatoryslurOf a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.

  • 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.
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  offensivederogatoryslurFar East Asian (relating to Asian people).

  • Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.
  • The two youths, the brown and the yellow, faced each other at the cross-roads, under a dim street-lamp.
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  offensivedatedOf mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.

  • "Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?".
  • A big full-blood gin cottoned onto me. “Give us a drink, yeller feller.”
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  datedSynonym of high yellow.

  • 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.
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  governmentpoliticsRelated to the Liberal Democrats.

  • yellow constituencies

yellowverb詞源 1/ˈjɛləʊ/

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  To become yellow or yellower.

  • 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.
  • Interviews, clippings, yellowing stories from foreign newspapers, notebooks with old scribblings. Salisbury called it the debris of a reporter always too much on the run to sort out the paper, but there it was, an investigator's dream, […]
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  To make (something) yellow or yellower.

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  historicalTo promote (a captain) to flag rank without command of a squadron, ending his career; to make him a yellow admiral.

  • Then they might yellow him if they wanted to; he would be satisfied with Admiral’s rank.

yellowintj詞源 2/ˈjɛləʊ/

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  BDSMlifestylesexualityUsed to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.