Yellow

Definition: Yellow

Yellow

Adjective

1. Similar to the color of an egg yolk.

2. (informal) easily frightened.

3. Changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment".

4. Typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow journalism".

5. (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.

6. Cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight".

7. Affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc.

Noun

1. The quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons.

Verb

1. Turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "yellow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Fine Arts

Literature

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Yellow

Abrogation

Dismissal, conge, demission; bounce; deposal, deposition; dethronement; disestablishment, disendowment; deconsecration; sack, walking papers, pink slip, walking ticket; yellow cover.

Age

Noun: age; oldness; Adjective: old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf"; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.

Alarm

Noun: alarm; alarum, larum, alarm bell, tocsin, alerts, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, note of alarm, hue and cry, fire cross, signal of distress; blue lights; war-cry, war-whoop; warning; fogsignal, foghorn; yellow flag; danger signal; red light, red flag; fire bell; police whistle.

Cowardice

Poltroonery, baseness; dastardness, dastardy; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear; white feather, faint heart; cold feet , yellow streak.

Deterioration

Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die.

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Excitation

Trail of temper, casus belli; irritation; (anger); passion; (state of excitability); thrill; (feeling); repression of feeling; sensationalism, yellow journalism.

Exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting; Verb: impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling; high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing; (painful); telling, sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh and blood can bear; yellow.

Indication

Insignia; banner, banneret, bannerol; bandrol; flag, colors, streamer, standard, eagle, labarum, oriflamb, oriflamme; figurehead; ensign; pennon, pennant, pendant; burgee, blue Peter, jack, ancient, gonfalon, union jack; banderole, " old glory ", quarantine flag; vexillum; yellow-flag, yellow jack; tricolor, stars and stripes; bunting.

Vehicle

Motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon, flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan; wheels, sports car, roadster, gran turismo, jeep, four-wheel drive vehicle, electric car, steamer; golf cart, electric wagon; taxicab, cab, taxicoach, checker cab, yellow cab; station wagon, family car; motorcycle, motor bike, side car; van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus; truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor-trailer, road train, articulated vehicle; racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car.

Warning

Handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.

Crosswords: Yellow

It was yellow! (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs)

What we have here, my little yellow sister, is a prime example of Alabama black snake (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick)

Follow the yellow brick road (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf.)

He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

Hey, would you believe me if I told you I was being followed by a yellow submarine (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn)

Yeah, they were all yellow (Yellow; performing artist: Coldplay)

Beyond the yellow brick road ("Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"; performing artist: Elton John)

And a big yellow taxi ("Big Yellow Taxi"; performing artist: Joni Mitchell)

To go and kill the yellow man (BORN IN THE U.S.A.; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

I like 'em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian with (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat)

How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign? (references; author: unknown)

Red leather! Yellow leather! (references; author: unknown)

Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry. (references; author: unknown)

Yanking yellow yo-yos. (references; author: unknown)

Yellow lorry, blue lorry. (references; author: unknown)

The Yellow House (1974)

Sir Yellow (1973)

Yellow Dog (1973)

Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972)

The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)

BIG YELLOW TAXI  (performing artist: Joni Mitchell )

Yellow Bird (Instrumental) (performing artist: The Arthur Lyman Group)

Yellow Submarine (performing artist: The Beatles)

Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree (performing artist: Tony Orlando & Dawn)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Yellow Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Yellow Hat Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Yellow Fever (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Yellow Fats (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Spotted Yellow Frogs: Fold-Out Fun With Patterns, Colors, 3-D Shapes, and Animals (reference)

• Yellow Flag: The Civil War Journal of Surgeon's Steward C. Marion Dodson (reference)

• Yellow Brick Road: A Storyteller's Approach to the Spiritual Journey (reference)

• There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos (reference)

• Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures With Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and th (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Associations Yellow Book (reference)

• Corporate Yellow Book (reference)

• Federal Regional Yellow Book (reference)

• Financial Yellow Book (reference)

• Municipal Yellow Book (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Yellow Cab Man (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Where the Southern Crosses the Yellow Dog (reference)

• Yellow Album (reference)

• Yellow Card (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tiffen 46mm Yellow 8 Filter (reference)

• Nintendo 64 Controller in Yellow (reference)

• Yellow Pages and Free Streets USA (reference)

• Yellow Pages Usa Deluxe 1999 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Woodstock International W1104 Yellow Board Buddies (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A hot pink plate on a light pink-checkered tablecloth. On the plate is a tall, conical glass of a yellow liquid, garnished with a lemon slice, some purple grapes and a straw. In front of the glass is a long stirring spoon. Behind it are a whole pineapple and a green bowl with 2 whole lemons. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A breakfast is set up on a blue and white striped tablecloth, including: a yellow bowl of cereal with raspberries, a glass of orange juice and a glass mug of tea. Also on the table are a brightly colored napkin and silverware in the foreground and a folded newspaper in the background. A second slide shows the same objects from a different angle. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Illustration of Aedes aegypti adult mosquito, vector of yellow fever. Parasite. Credit: CDC.

Tombstone of Henry Warren, R.N., who died of yellow fever in 1855. Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Credit: CDC.

A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual ... Credit: NASA.

Nautical chart of New York Harbor, ca. 1924 New style chart with yellow land, blue water, and colored buoys Basically, this is the format for NOAA nautical charts today. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

ABLS - Automated Boundary Layer Sampler Ready for deployment off of PEIRCE Yellow instrument on deck is a box corer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Yellow fungi at the base of a tree. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sign over the cell that housed Dr. Samuel Mudd, controversial doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth following Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Mudd was convicted of helping Booth and served three years of his sentence at Fort Jefferson. He helped treat many Union soldiers during a yellow fever epidemic and was subsequently paroled. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Photo # 2 - Streaming net during trawling operations. Yellow floats are pulled underwater but help keep the mouth of the net open while being towed. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is certain, that in the beginning, before the desire of having more than man needed had altered the intrinsic value of things, which depends only on their usefulness to the life of man; or had agreed, that a little piece of yellow metal, which would keep without wasting or decay, should be worth a great piece of flesh, or a whole heap of corn; though men had a right to appropriate, by their labour, each one of himself, as much of the things of nature, as he could use: yet this could not be much, nor to the prejudice of others, where the same plenty was still left to those who would use the same industry. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Of course the cupboard was then full of Yellow Light

It was a boy of less than ten years, ragged, very small, yellow, a mug of a face, a keen eye, monstrous long hair, wet to the skin, a complacent look

He peered out for an instant over the coverlet and saw the yellow curtains round and before his bed that shut him off on all sides

An old copy of the Philadelphia (r)Ledger was on the floor against the wall, its pages yellow and curling

The hair of both sexes was of several colors, brown, red, black, and yellow.

The yellow corn and turnips were too late to come to anything

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They are oval and usually yellow to white. (references)

Drusen are tiny yellow deposits in the retina. (references)

Yellow dye number 5 can cause hives, although rarely. (references)

Business

The bulk of yellow organic pigments also depend on imports. (references)

A yellow fever vaccination certificate is required from travelers coming from infected areas. (references)

Rutile titanium pigments and high-grade organic pigments need to be imported as well as yellow organic pigments. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

On May 23, the Taliban decreed that Hindus and Sikhs would be required to wear a piece of yellow cloth attached to their clothing to identify their religious affiliation. (references)

Afghanistan

According to Human Rights Watch, in September 1999, the Taliban issued decrees barring non-Muslims from building places of worship but allowing them to worship at existing holy sites; forbidding non-Muslims from criticizing Muslims; ordering non-Muslims to identify their houses by placing a yellow cloth on their rooftops; banning non-Muslims from living in the same residence as Muslims; and requiring that non-Muslim women wear a yellow dress with a special mark so that Muslims could keep their distance. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

Flag: Red, yellow, and green vertical stripes. (references)

Political Economy

VENEZUELA

Specifically, licenses are required for milk, cheese, oilseeds, and yellow corn. (references)

PHILIPPINES

BOC officials say that shipments channeled through the yellow lane will require a documentary review, while red lane shipments will require physical inspection at the port. (references)

EL SALVADOR

Under this new scheme, white and yellow corn are charged 20 percent ad valorem duties; paddy and milled rice, 40 percent; fluid milk and dairy products, 40 percent; sorghum, 40 percent; and pork, 40 percent. (references)

Trade

Philippines

If a firm is not classified as "low risk," its shipments will be channeled through the yellow or red lanes. (references)

Costa Rica

The Government of Costa Rica prohibits the importation of used tires without rims, because mosquitoes carrying yellow fever or dengue fever breed in water accumulated in rimless tires. (references)

Colombia

Price Bands: On April 1, 1995, Colombia began to apply the common Andean Community price band (variable import duty system) covering thirteen basic commodities (white rice, malting barley, yellow corn, white corn, soybeans, wheat, crude palm oil, crude soybean oil, white sugar, raw sugar, powdered milk, chicken parts, and pork meat) and 134 additional commodities that are considered substitutes. (references)

Travel

Chad

Reliable and reasonably priced taxis are yellow in color. (references)

Pakistan

Yellow taxis are available in most large and small population centers. (references)

Senegal

Evidence of a vaccination for yellow fever may be required at the port of entry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A color inclining to yellow

Expressions using "yellow": a yellow look ♦ acute yellow liver atrophy ♦ alizarin yellow ♦ be parked on a yellow line ♦ become yellow ♦ blue and yellow ♦ bright yellow ♦ brownish yellow ♦ Cadmium yellow ♦ cadmium yellow pale ♦ California yellow bells ♦ canary yellow ♦ Chrome yellow ♦ Cobalt yellow ♦ double yellow line ♦ downy yellow violet ♦ dye yellow ♦ get yellow ♦ go yellow ♦ great yellow gentian ♦ greenish yellow ♦ grow yellow ♦ Indian yellow ♦ Indigo yellow ♦ Iodine yellow ♦ King's yellow ♦ large yellow lady's slipper ♦ lead oxide yellow ♦ lemon yellow ♦ lesser yellow trefoil ♦ lethal yellow mouse ♦ look yellow ♦ madder yellow ♦ Maize yellow ♦ make yellow ♦ Mandarin yellow ♦ mustard yellow ♦ naphthalene yellow ♦ naphthol yellow ♦ Naples yellow ♦ natural yellow 8 ♦ onion yellow dwarf ♦ orange yellow ♦ pale yellow ♦ patent yellow ♦ Platina yellow ♦ potato yellow dwarf ♦ primrose yellow ♦ Queen's yellow ♦ red or yellow deal ♦ saffron yellow ♦ shortleaf yellow pine ♦ show yellow ♦ southern yellow pine ♦ sulfur yellow ♦ sulphur yellow ♦ summer yellow bird ♦ take a yellow color ♦ take a yellow colour ♦ the sear and yellow leaf ♦ the yellow peril ♦ the yellow race ♦ turn yellow ♦ Turner's yellow ♦ visual yellow ♦ wax yellow ♦ western yellow pine ♦ wild yellow lily ♦ yellow adder's tongue ♦ yellow ageratum ♦ yellow agouti mouse ♦ yellow asphodel ♦ yellow atrophy ♦ yellow avens ♦ yellow bachelor's button ♦ yellow bark ♦ yellow bass ♦ yellow bean ♦ yellow bedstraw ♦ yellow bells ♦ yellow belly ♦ yellow berry ♦ yellow bile ♦ yellow birch ♦ yellow bird ♦ yellow bird's nest ♦ Yellow Bluff ♦ yellow bone marrow ♦ yellow Book ♦ yellow Box ♦ yellow boy ♦ yellow boys ♦ yellow brier ♦ yellow bristle grass ♦ yellow bristlegrass ♦ yellow brown top rot ♦ yellow buckeye ♦ yellow bugle ♦ yellow bunting ♦ yellow cab ♦ yellow cap. Additional references.

Beginning with "yellow": yellow-amber, yellow-ammer, yellow-and-black, yellow-and-brown, yellow-and-green, yellow-and-white, yellow-anoraked, yellow-back, yellow-backed, yellow-bark oak, yellow-bellied, yellow-bellied sapsucker, yellow-bellied terrapin, yellow-billed, yellow-black, yellow-bleary-eyed, yellow-blindness, yellow-bloomed, yellow-blue color blindness, yellow-blue dichromacy, yellow-breasted, yellow-breasted bunting, yellow-breasted chat, yellow-breasted marten, yellow-brick, yellow-bright, yellow-browed, yellow-brown, yellow-buff, yellow-bunting, yellow-cake, yellow-card, yellow-centred, yellow-coated, yellow-coloured, yellow-covered, Yellow-covered literature, yellow-cream, yellow-crowned, yellow-crowned night heron, yellow-crowned warbler, yellow-curtained, yellow-decked, yellow-dog, yellow-dog contract, yellow-eyed, Yellow-eyed grass, yellow-eyed grass family, yellow-faced, yellow-featured, yellow-fever, yellow-fever mosquito, yellow-fin tuna, yellow-flecked, yellow-fleshed, yellow-flowered, yellow-fronted, yellow-gold, Yellow-golds, yellow-green, yellow-green algae, yellow-greens, yellow-grey, yellow-gum, yellow-gutted, yellow-haired, yellow-hammer, yellow-hammers, yellow-hot, yellow-jacket, yellow-jacketed, yellow-jawed, yellow-leaf sickle pine, yellow-leaved, yellow-legged, yellow-legged plover, yellow-like, yellow-line, yellow-lit, yellow-livered, yellow-loving, yellow-man, yellow-maned, yellow-moustached, yellow-nosed, yellow-ochre, yellow-orange, yellow-painted, yellow-papered, yellow-patterned, yellow-pink, yellow-poll warbler, yellow-rattle, yellow-red, yellow-ribbon, yellow-root, yellow-rumped, yellow-rumped warbler, yellow-shafted flicker, yellow-sheet, yellow-skinned, yellow-soap, yellow-soled, yellow-spotted, yellow-stained, yellow-stamped, yellow-stemmed, yellow-streak, yellow-streaked, yellow-striped, yellow-suited, yellow-tailed, Yellow-tailed shad, yellow-throated, yellow-throated marten, yellow-tinged, yellow-tinted, yellow-tipped, yellow-toned, yellow-toothed, yellow-topped, yellow-tufted honeysucker, yellow-variegated, yellow-wagtail-like, yellow-walled, yellow-white, yellow-wort.

Ending with "yellow": acid-yellow, black-and-yellow, blue-yellow, butter-yellow, golden-yellow, greenish-yellow, greeny-yellow, lemon-yellow, orange-yellow, red-and-yellow, saffron-yellow.

Containing "yellow": amber brownish-yellow yellow-brown, canary-yellow-and-indigo, white-yellow-white.

Afrikaans

geel. (various references)

Albanian

zverdhem (blanch, grow pale, turn white), zverdh (make yellow), verdh (make yellow), i verdhë (cadaverous, Daffodil, daft, flaxen, icterus, jaundice, jaundiced, livid, pale, stramineous, xanthous), frikacak (chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastard, dastardly, faint-heart, faint-hearted, funk, milk-livered, poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, scary, sneak, sneaking, white livered, yellowbellied, yellow-livered). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صفر من المرض, ‏صفر (beep, blow, cipher, hiss, hoot, naught, nil, nought, pipe, toot, tootle, wheeze, whistle, zero), ‏اللون الأصفر, ‏أصفر (xanthous). (various references)

Asturian

mariellu. (various references)

Aymara

q'ellu. (various references)

Basque

hori (that). (various references)

Bavarian

gäib. (various references)

Bemba

umutuntulwa. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сензационен (lurid, red-hot, scare, sensational, sultry, thrilling), ревнив (green, jealous), вид пеперуда (satyr, swallow tail, wood nymph), низък (abject, base, contemptible, degraded, ignoble, low down, low-minded, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, miscreant, paltry, scaly, scurvy, unworthy, vile, villainous), малодушие (cowardice, qualm), завистлив (envious, jealous), жълтък на яйце (yelk, yolk), жълтокож, жълтея, жълта материя, жълт цвят (maize, saffron), жълт пигмент, жълт (xanthous), безхарактерен (characterless, molluscous, spineless), пожълтявам (dye yellow, show yellow, turn yellow). (various references)

Catalan

groc. (various references)

Cebuano

dalag. (various references)

Chamorro

amariyu. (various references)

Chinese 

黃色 (pornographic), 黃 (sulfur), 黄色 (Yellows). (various references)

Cornish

melen. (various references)

Czech

žlutý (amber, brazen, jaundiced). (various references)

Danish

gul. (various references)

Dutch

geel. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

quillu. (various references)

Esperanto

flavo, flava. (various references)

Faeroese

gulur. (various references)

Farsi 

ترسو (Caitiff, Gunshy, Meticulous, Pigeon, Pusillanimous, Shamefaced, Sheepish, Shy, Skittish, Timid, Timorous), زردی (Autumn), زرد (Aquamarine, Wan), اصفر. (various references)

Finnish

keltainen. (various references)

French

jaune (yellowy). (various references)

Frisian

giel. (various references)

German

gelb (amber, yellowness). (various references)

Greek 

κίτρινοσ (vitelline), κίτρινος (sallow), κίτρινο, δειλόσ (bashful, boggler, chicken, chicken hearted, coward, dastardly, faint-hearted, fearful, lily livered, mealymouthed, pusillanimous, sheepish, shy, skittish, skulker, timid, timorous, weak-kneed, white livered), δειλός (bashful, chicken-hearted, funk, shy, tentative, timid). (various references)

Hebrew 

להצהיב, כתום (golden, orange), צהוב. (various references)

Hungarian

sárga (amber, sallow, xanthous, yellow as a guinea), féltékeny (be jealous, he is envious, jealous). (various references)

Icelandic

gulur. (various references)

Indonesian

kuning. (various references)

Inuktitut

quqsuqtuq. (various references)