yellow(n = noun.attribute) yellowness - yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons;
is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
has particulars: canary, canary yellow, amber, gold, brownish yellow, gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maize, old gold, orange yellow, saffron, pale yellow, straw, wheat, greenish yellow
Derived forms verb yellow1, adjective yellow1
yellow(v = verb.change) - turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow"
is one way to color, colour, discolor, discolour
Derived form noun yellow1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
1. yellow(s = adj.all) xanthous, yellowish - of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk;
Derived forms noun yellow1, noun yellowness1
2. yellow(s = adj.all) chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied - easily frightened;
3. yellow(s = adj.all) yellowed - changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"
4. yellow(s = adj.all) scandalmongering, sensationalistic - typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press"
5. yellow(s = adj.all) - cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"; "too yellow to stand and fight"
6. yellow(s = adj.all) icteric, jaundiced - affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc;
1. Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green. [1913 Webster]
"Her yellow hair was browded [braided] in a tress." [1913 Webster]
"A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought
First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf." [1913 Webster]
"The line of yellow light dies fast away." [1913 Webster]
2. Cowardly; hence, dishonorable; mean; contemptible; as, he has a yellow streak. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. Sensational; -- said of some newspapers, their makers, etc.; as, yellow journal, journalism, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. A yellow pigment. [1913 Webster]
To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow. [1913 Webster]
To become yellow or yellower. [1913 Webster]
yellow, adj., n., & v.
--adj.
1 of the colour between green and orange in the spectrum, of buttercups, lemons, egg-yolks, or gold.
2 of the colour of faded leaves, ripe wheat, etc.
3 having a yellow skin or complexion.
4 colloq. cowardly.
5 (of looks, feelings, etc.) jealous, envious, or suspicious.
6 (of newspapers etc.) unscrupulously sensational.
--n.
1 a yellow colour or pigment.
2 yellow clothes or material (dressed in yellow).
3 a a yellow ball, piece, etc., in a game or sport. b the player using such pieces.
4 (usu. in comb.) a yellow moth or butterfly.
5 (in pl.) jaundice of horses etc.
6 US a peach-disease with yellowed leaves.
--v.tr. & intr. make or become yellow.
Idiom:
yellow arsenic = ORPIMENT. yellow-belly 1 colloq. a coward.
2 any of various fish with yellow underparts. yellow card Football a card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned. yellow fever a tropical virus disease with fever and jaundice.
yellow flag
1 a flag displayed by a ship in quarantine.
2 an iridaceous plant, Iris pseudacorus, with slender sword-shaped leaves and yellow flowers.
yellow jack
1 = yellow fever.
2 = yellow flag. yellow line (in the UK) a line painted along the side of the road in yellow either singly or in pairs to denote parking restrictions. yellow metal brass of 60 parts copper and 40 parts zinc. Yellow Pages propr. a section of a telephone directory on yellow paper and listing business subscribers according to the goods or services they offer. the yellow peril the political or military threat regarded as emanating from Asian peoples, esp. the Chinese. yellow rattle a yellow-flowered plant of the genus Rhinanthus. yellow rocket see ROCKET(2). yellow spot the point of acutest vision in the retina. yellow streak colloq. a trait of cowardice.
Derivative:
yellowish adj. yellowly adv. yellowness n. yellowy adj.
Etymology:
OE geolu, geolo f. WG, rel. to GOLD
N excitation of feeling, mental excitement, suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection, animation, agitation, perturbation, subjugation, fascination, intoxication, enravishment, entrancement, pressure, tension, high pressure, unction, impressiveness, trail of temper, casus belli, irritation, passion, thrill, repression of feeling, sensationalism, yellow journalism, excited, wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling, in a quiver, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement, in hysterics, black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge, hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish, all of a twitter, in a pucker, with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes, flaming, boiling over, ebullient, seething, foaming at the mouth, fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal, lost, eperdu, tempest-tossed, haggard, ready to sink, stung to the quick, up, on one's high ropes, exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting, impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling, high-wrought, soul-stirring, soul-subduing, heart-stirring, heart- swelling, heart-thrilling, agonizing, telling, sensational, hysterical, overpowering, overwhelming, more than flesh and blood can bear, yellow, piquant, spicy, appetizing, provocative, provoquant, tantalizing, eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit, till one is black in the face, the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth, the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins, the eye glistening, the eyes in a fine frenzy rolling, the head turned, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
N yellowness, yellow, or, gamboge, cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow, orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin, xanthein, xanthin, zaofulvin, crocus, saffron, topaz, xanthite, yolk, jaundice, London fog, yellowness, icterus, xantho- cyanopia, xanthopsia, yellow, aureate, golden, flavous, citrine, fallow, fulvous, fulvid, sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy, xanthic, xanthous, jaundiced, auricomous, gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, lemon yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose- colored, creamcolored, xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous, yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot, warm, advancing, yellowness, yellow, or, gamboge, cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow, orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin, xanthein, xanthin, zaofulvin, crocus, saffron, topaz, xanthite, yolk, jaundice, London fog, yellowness, icterus, xantho- cyanopia, xanthopsia, yellow, aureate, golden, flavous, citrine, fallow, fulvous, fulvid, sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy, xanthic, xanthous, jaundiced, auricomous, gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, lemon yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose- colored, creamcolored, xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous, yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot, warm, advancing.
alizarin yellow, brownish yellow, cadmium yellow, cadmium yellow pale, california yellow bells, canary yellow, chrome yellow, downy yellow violet, great yellow gentian, greenish yellow, large yellow lady's slipper, lemon yellow, lesser yellow trefoil, naples yellow, onion yellow dwarf, orange yellow, pale yellow, potato yellow dwarf, shortleaf yellow pine, southern yellow pine, western yellow pine, wild yellow lily, yellow adder's tongue, yellow ageratum, yellow asphodel, yellow avens, yellow bachelor's button, yellow bass, yellow bean, yellow bedstraw, yellow bells, yellow berry, yellow bile, yellow birch, yellow bone marrow, yellow book, yellow bristle grass, yellow bristlegrass, yellow bugle, yellow bunting, yellow cattley guava, yellow cedar, yellow chamomile, yellow chestnut oak, yellow cleavers, yellow clintonia, yellow colicroot, yellow cypress, yellow delicious, yellow dock, yellow dwarf, yellow dwarf of potato, yellow fever, yellow flag, yellow foxglove, yellow foxtail, yellow giant hyssop, yellow globe lily, yellow goatfish, yellow granadilla, yellow green, yellow gurnard, yellow hawkweed, yellow henbane, yellow honeysuckle, yellow horned poppy, yellow hornet, yellow iris, yellow ironweed, yellow jacaranda, yellow jack, yellow jacket, yellow jasmine, yellow jessamine, yellow journalism, yellow lady's slipper, yellow lady-slipper, yellow light, yellow locust, yellow loosestrife, yellow lupine, yellow man, yellow mariposa tulip, yellow marrow, yellow metal, yellow milkwort, yellow mombin, yellow mombin tree, yellow mountain saxifrage, yellow nutgrass, yellow oak, yellow ocher, yellow ochre, yellow oleander, yellow pages, yellow paper daisy, yellow parilla, yellow pea, yellow perch, yellow peril, yellow pimpernel, yellow pine, yellow pitcher plant, yellow pond lily, yellow poplar, yellow prussiate of potash, yellow race, yellow river, yellow rocket, yellow root, yellow salsify, yellow sand verbena, yellow sea, yellow spiny daisy, yellow spot, yellow spot fungus, yellow spruce, yellow squash, yellow star-thistle, yellow sweet clover, yellow trefoil, yellow trumpet, yellow turnip, yellow twining snapdragon, yellow vetchling, yellow warbler, yellow water flag, yellow water lily, yellow watercress, yellow woman
1. adder(n = noun.person) - a person who adds numbers;
is a kind of calculator, computer, estimator, figurer, reckoner
2. adder(n = noun.artifact) - a machine that adds numbers;
is a kind of calculating machine, calculator
Derived forms verb add4, verb add5
3. adder(n = noun.animal) common viper, vipera berus - small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia;
is a kind of viper
is a member of genus vipera, vipera
One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers. [1913 Webster]
1. A serpent. Wyclif. Gen. iii. 4. ) [1913 Webster]
2. A small venomous serpent of the genus
" In the sculptures the appellation is given to several venomous serpents, -- sometimes to the horned viper (
adder, n. any of various small venomous snakes, esp. the common viper, Vipera berus, the only poisonous snake in Great Britain.
Idiom:
adder's tongue any fern of the genus Ophioglossum.
Etymology:
OE n{aelig}dre: n lost in ME by wrong division of a naddre: cf. APRON, AUGER, UMPIRE
N evil doer, evil worker, wrongdoer, mischief-maker, marplot, oppressor, tyrant, destroyer, Vandal, iconoclast, firebrand, incendiary, fire bug, pyromaniac, anarchist, communist, terrorist, savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado, Apache, hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly, Red Skin, tough, Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk, bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous classes, ugly customer, thief, cockatrice, scorpion, hornet, snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass, serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda, canker-worm, wire-worm, locust, Colorado beetle, alacran, alligator, caymon, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus, torpedo, bane, cutthroat, cannibal, anthropophagus, anthropophagist, bloodsucker, vampire, ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture, gyrfalcon, gerfalcon, wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman, blood-hound, hell- hound, sleuth-hound, catamount, cougar, jaguar, puma, hag, hellhag, beldam, Jezebel, monster, fiend, devil incarnate, demon in human shape, Frankenstein's monster, harpy, siren, Furies, Eumenides, Hun, Attila, scourge of the human race, faenum habet in cornu.
adder fly/, banded adder, checkered adder, death adder, milk adder, puff adder, sea adder, water adder
1. tongue(n = noun.body) clapper, glossa, lingua - a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity;
is a kind of organ, articulator
is a part of mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris, pharynx, throat
has parts: gustatory organ, taste bud, tastebud
Derived forms verb tongue2, verb tongue1
2. tongue(n = noun.communication) natural language - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language;
is a kind of language, linguistic communication
has particulars: first language, maternal language, mother tongue, tonal language, tone language, creole, american-indian language, american indian, amerind, amerindian language, indian, eskimo-aleut, eskimo-aleut language, chukchi, chukchi language, sino-tibetan, sino-tibetan language, austro-asiatic, austro-asiatic language, munda-mon-khmer, hmong, hmong language, miao, austronesian, austronesian language, papuan, papuan language, khoisan, khoisan language, indo-european, indo-european language, indo-hittite, ural-altaic, basque, elamite, elamitic, susian, cassite, kassite, caucasian, caucasian language, dravidian, dravidian language, dravidic, afrasian, afrasian language, afro-asiatic, afroasiatic, afroasiatic language, hamito-semitic, niger-kordofanian, niger-kordofanian language, nilo-saharan, nilo-saharan language
3. tongue(n = noun.shape) knife - any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"
is a kind of projection
4. tongue(n = noun.communication) - a manner of speaking; "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she has a glib tongue"
is a kind of delivery, manner of speaking, speech
has particulars: sharp tongue
5. tongue(n = noun.object) spit - a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea;
is a kind of cape, ness
6. tongue(n = noun.food) - the tongue of certain animals used as meat;
is a kind of organs, variety meat
has particulars: beef tongue, calf's tongue
7. tongue(n = noun.artifact) - the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot;
is a kind of flap
is a part of boot, shoe
8. tongue(n = noun.artifact) clapper - metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side;
is a kind of striker
is a part of bell
1. tongue(v = verb.creation) - articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments;
is one way to play, spiel
Derived form noun tongue1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something
2. tongue(v = verb.contact) - lick or explore with the tongue;
is one way to lap, lick
Derived form noun tongue1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody
1. an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. [1913 Webster]
" The tongue is usually muscular, mobile, and free at one extremity, and in man other mammals is the principal organ of taste, aids in the prehension of food, in swallowing, and in modifying the voice as in speech." [1913 Webster]
"To make his English sweet upon his tongue." [1913 Webster]
2. The power of articulate utterance; speech. [1913 Webster]
"Parrots imitating human tongue." [1913 Webster]
3. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. [1913 Webster]
"Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together." [1913 Webster]
4. Honorable discourse; eulogy. [1913 Webster]
"She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor." [1913 Webster]
5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
"Whose tongue thou shalt not understand." [1913 Webster]
"To speak all tongues." [1913 Webster]
6. Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions. [1913 Webster]
"My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth." [1913 Webster]
7. A people having a distinct language. [1913 Webster]
"A will gather all nations and tongues." [1913 Webster]
8. The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk. [1913 Webster]
9. Any small sole. [1913 Webster]
10. That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. [1913 Webster]
1. To speak; to utter. Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. To chide; to scold. [1913 Webster]
"How might she tongue me." [1913 Webster]
3. To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. [1913 Webster]
4. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together. [1913 Webster]
1. To talk; to prate. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
2. To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. [1913 Webster]
tongue, n. & v.
--n.
1 the fleshy muscular organ in the mouth used in tasting, licking, and swallowing, and (in man) for speech.
2 the tongue of an ox etc. as food.
3 the faculty of or a tendency in speech (a sharp tongue).
4 a particular language (the German tongue).
5 a thing like a tongue in shape or position, esp.: a a long low promontory. b a strip of leather etc., attached at one end only, under the laces in a shoe. c the clapper of a bell. d the pin of a buckle. e the projecting strip on a wooden etc. board fitting into the groove of another. f a vibrating slip in the reed of some musical instruments. g a jet of flame.
--v. (tongues, tongued, tonguing)
1 tr. produce staccato etc. effects with (a flute etc.) by means of tonguing.
2 intr. use the tongue in this way.
Idiom:
find (or lose) one's tongue be able (or unable) to express oneself after a shock etc. the gift of tongues the power of speaking in unknown languages, regarded as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2). keep a civil tongue in one's head avoid rudeness. tongue-and-groove applied to boards in which a tongue along one edge fits into a groove along the edge of the next, each board having a tongue on one edge and a groove on the other. tongue-in-cheek adj. ironic; slyly humorous.
--adv. insincerely or ironically. tongue-lashing a severe scolding or reprimand. tongue-tie a speech impediment due to a malformation of the tongue. tongue-tied
1 too shy or embarrassed to speak.
2 having a tongue-tie. tongue-twister a sequence of words difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. with one's tongue hanging out eagerly or expectantly. with one's tongue in one's cheek insincerely or ironically.
Derivative:
tongued adj. (also in comb.). tongueless adj.
Etymology:
OE tunge f. Gmc, rel. to L lingua
N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.
N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.
N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).
N taste, good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste, delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse, nicety, to prepon, polish, elegance, grace, judgment, discernment, dilettantism, dilettanteism, virtu, fine art, culture, cultivation, aesthetics, man of taste, connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist, caviare to the general, in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic, cultivated, refined, dainty, esthetic, aesthetic, artistic, elegant, euphemistic, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy, comme il faut, tire a quatre epingles, elegantly, nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, chacun a son gout, oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus, taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor, gout, relish, sapor, sapidity, twang, smack, smatch, aftertaste, tang, tasting, degustation, gustation, palate, tongue, tooth, stomach, sapid, saporific, gustable, gustatory, gustful, strong, gamy, palatable.
adder's tongue, adder's tongue fern, beef tongue, black tongue, bull tongue, calf's tongue, devil's tongue, double tongue, furry tongue, give tongue to, hairy tongue, mother tongue, mother-in-law's tongue, painted tongue, sharp tongue, slip of the tongue, tongue and groove joint, tongue depressor, tongue fern, tongue in cheek, tongue lash, tongue lashing, tongue tie, tongue tied, tongue twister, tongue worm, yellow adder's tongue