Yellow Pages

  

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Yellow Pages

Definition: Yellow Pages

Yellow Pages

Noun

1. A telephone directory or section of a directory (usually printed on yellow paper) where business products and services are listed alphabetically by field along with classified advertising.

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


Specialty Definition: Yellow Pages

DomainDefinition

Computing

Yellow Pages Network Information Service. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Specialty Definition: Yellow Pages (computing)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Yellow Pages or YP as is commonly known, was the original name for the Network Information Service (NIS) created by Sun Microsystems. Nowadays it is mostly called NIS or NIS+.

See Also

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yellow Pages (computing)."

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Crosswords: Yellow Pages

Specialty definitions using "Yellow Pages": Network Information ServiceYP. (references)

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Modern Usage: Yellow Pages

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Or better still put it in the Yellow Pages under Burt. (Soap; writing credit: Jos Gevers; Jeroom Verten)

Movie/TV Titles

Yellow Pages (1988)

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

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Commercial Usage: Yellow Pages

DomainTitle

Books

  • Getting the Most from Your Yellow Pages Advertising: Maximum Profits at Minimum Cost (reference)

  • Harley Hahn Internet Yellow Pages, 2003 Edition (reference)

  • Que's Official Internet Yellow Pages, 2002 Edition (reference)

  • The Yellow Pages of Rock with Jr. Travel Guide (2002 Edition) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Yellow Pages

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Non-Fiction Usage: Yellow Pages

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Other sources of information and guidance may be found in your local Yellow Pages under "Alcoholism" or through one of the resources listed at the end of this booklet. (references)

Business

Among the most important Italian companies specialized in Web site development with e-commerce capabilities there are Matrix, controlled by Seat, the Yellow Pages company of Telecom Italy, and by the publishing company DeAgostini; GLAMM and Inferentia. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Yellow pages and the like are not available to the average consumer. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Yellow Pages

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

yellow pages.com

2,065

the hun yellow pages.com

157

hun yellow pages.com

64

the hun yellow pages.net

63
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Yellow Pages

Language Translations for "Yellow Pages"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

телефонен бизнес указател. (various references)

   

Danish

  

gule sider, fagregister, Fagbog (Classified Business Directory, Golden Pages), De Gule Sider (Classified Business Directory, Golden Pages). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Gouden Gids (Classified Business Directory, Golden Pages), gele pagina's, Gele Gids (Classified Business Directory, Golden Pages), Beroepengids (Classified Business Directory, Golden Pages). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

keltaiset sivut. (various references)

   

French

  

pages-jaunes, Pages Jaunes, Pages d'Or, Annuaire officiel des abonnés au téléphone par professions, Annuaire commercial et professionnel. (various references)

   

German

  

Gelbe Seiten (Classified Business Directory, Golden Pages). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κίτρινες σελίδες, χρυσόσ οδηγόσ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Pagine Gialle (Classified Business Directory, Golden Pages). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

イエズス会 (eon, ion, ion rocket, Ionium, Jesuits, Society of Jesus, yellow, Yellow Book, Yellow Card, yellow journalism, yellow paper, yellow press, yellow zone). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

イエローページ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yelloway agespay

   

Portuguese

  

páginas amarelas. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Páginas Amarillas (Classified Business Directory, Golden Pages). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

yrkesregister, telefonkatalog (directory, telephone book, telephone directory), gula sidorna, gula sidor. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

telefon rehberi (directory, telephone book, telephone directory), altın rehber. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Yellow Pages

Misspellings

"Yellow Pages" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: yerllow pages. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Yellow Pages

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-l-o-p-s-w-y"

-3 letters: walleyes, weaselly.

-4 letters: alleges, apogees, galleys, gallops, gallows, leeways, logways, pelages, pollees, sallowy, walleye, wallops, weasely, yellows.

-5 letters: allees, allege, alleys, allows, alloys, apogee, asleep, aslope, eagles, elapse, elopes, galley, gallop, galops, gospel, lapels, leeway, legals, logway, palely, payees, peages, pelage, pesewa, plages, please, pogeys, pollee, psylla, sagely, sallow, sawlog, sewage, sleepy, slowly.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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