Yellow

Quick meaning: Yellow is a noun meaning (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.

Meaning

(snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.

More Meanings

1. (sports) A yellow card.
2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.
3. Of a yellow hue.
4. (informal) Lacking courage.
5. (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.
6. 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.
7. (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).

Example Sentences

He had a yellow laptop in his bag.

A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.

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 o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.

Word Forms

• yellows
• yeller
• yellower
• yellowest
• yellowing
• yellowed

Synonyms for yellow

Depending on context, synonyms include amber, blond, cream, dandelion, gold, khaki.

Antonyms for yellow

Common opposites include unyellow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include yellowness, jaundiced, colored, chromatic, chicken, yellow-bellied.

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