yellow meaning

• Adjective: yellow (yellower,yellowest)  yelow
  1. Of the colour intermediate between green and orange in the colour spectrum; of something resembling the colour of an egg yolk
     - yellowish, xanthous, yellowy 
  2. Easily frightened
     - chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, chicken-livered 
  3. Changed to a yellowish colour by age
     - yellowed 
  4. Typical of tabloids
     "yellow press"
     - scandalmongering, sensationalistic 
  5. Cowardly or treacherous
     "the little yellow stain of treason"; "too yellow to stand and fight" 
  6. Affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
     - jaundiced, icteric
  Noun: yellow  yelow
  1. Yellow colour or pigment; the chromatic colour resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
     - yellowness
  Verb: yellow  yelow
  1. Turn yellow
     "The pages of the book began to yellow"

  Derived forms: yellowing, yellows, yellowed, yellowest, yellower

  See also: chromatic, cowardly, dishonorable [US], dishonourable [Brit, Cdn], fearful, old, sensational, unhealthy

  Type of: chromatic color [US], chromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], spectral color [US], spectral colour [Brit, Cdn]

  Encyclopedia: Yellow

• 
  [American slang]
  mod. cowardly.
  • Who says I'm yellow?
  • Bruno says you're yellow. Wanna make something of it?
  
  
• 
  [Computer]
  A language from SRI proposed to meet the Ironman requirements which led to Ada.

• He coloured the picture with a yellow crayon.
• yellow dust was dropping from the limetrees.
• Katherine has a horror of wearing yellow dresses.
• The captain tapped the blue and yellow chart.
• Set the pine in the clay, and it will turn yellow.
• Her face had turned a milky yellow colour.
• If you mix red and yellow, you get orange.
• She pushed heavy yellow hair away from her face.
• They have red and yellow plumes in their hats.
• Night closed in on yellow stone village.

• "yellow" meaning in Chinese: adj. 1.黄(色)的。2.皮肤黄的；蒙古[黄色]人种的。3.忧郁的；妒嫉的，猜忌的。4.(新闻等)耸人听闻的。...
• "yellow" meaning in Japanese: １yellow n. 黄色; 卵黄. 【動詞＋】 ◆wear yellow 黄色の服を着る. 【形容詞 名詞＋】 ◆...
• "yellow" meaning in Russian: 1) желтый цвет, желтизна2) желтая краска3) желток4) челове...
• "yellow" meaning in French: n. jaune, jaune d'oeuf; peureux; trouillard (argot) v. ...