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Definition: YELLOWS |
YELLOWSNoun1. A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur. 2. A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus. 3. A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice. |
Date "YELLOWS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Yellow is the color of light whose wavelength is between 565nm and 590nm or is a mixture of red and green light, that appears to be the same color. On a browser that supports visual formatting in Cascading Style Sheets, the following box should appear yellow:
Yellow is also one of the primary pigments.
Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions
Yellow is a bright cheerful color, but in the English language, yellow is associated with cowardice. A coward is said to have a "yellow belly". It can also mean that something is tainted, as in the expression "yellow journalism".
The Beatles recorded a song called The Yellow Submarine.
Yellow was the symbol for the Emperor of China and consequently of the Chinese monarchy. It was also the color of the New Party on Taiwan.
Yellow, in international political organizations, is the color for liberalists (see Political party).
Yellow is also a colour associated with being scared, or afraid.
In some countries, taxies are commonly yellow.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yellow."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jealousy | Noun: jealousy,jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious suspicion, suspicion; " green-eyed monster "; yellows; Juno. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: YELLOWS |
| English words defined with "YELLOWS": Jeterus ♦ warm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "YELLOWS": nickel oxide. (references) |
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| "Yellow flowers" by Peter Zullo Commentary: "Yellows flowers in my backyard." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "YELLOWS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.80% of the time. "YELLOWS" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.8% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "YELLOWS": rayed with the yellows ♦ the reds and the yellows of autumn ♦ tomato yellows. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "YELLOWS": green-yellows. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "YELLOWS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | صفراوات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | жълтеница (icterus, jaundice), болест по растения и дървета. (various references) | |
Chinese | 黄色 (Yellow). (various references) | |
Czech | žloutenka (icterus, jaundice). (various references) | |
Danish | bedegulsot (beet yellows, virus yellows, yellow virosis of beets). (various references) | |
Dutch | vergelingsziekte (beet yellows, virus yellows, yellow virosis of beets). (various references) | |
Finnish | juurikkaankeltavirus (beet yellows, virus yellows, yellow virosis of beets). (various references) | |
French | yellows, jaunes. (various references) | |
German | vergilbt (yellowed). (various references) | |
Greek | χρύση των ζώων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sárgaság (icterus, jaundice, yellowness), sárga irigység, irigység (envy, grudge, jaundice, jealousy), féltékenység (jealousy). (various references) | |
Italian | luminale, gardenale, fenobarbitone. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yellowsay.(various references) | |
Romanian | nuanţele roşii şi galbene ale toamnei (the reds and the yellows of autumn), bolnav de gãlbinare (rayed with the yellows). (various references) | |
Russian | желтеть (get yellow, show yellow). (various references) | |
Spanish | amarillos. (various references) | |
Swedish | betvirusgulsot (beet yellows, virus yellows, yellow virosis of beets). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | заздрість (envy, grudge, heartburn, heartburning, jealousy), жовтуха. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"YELLOWS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Oyelowo, yallow, yellos, yelo, yelow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "YELLOWS" (pronounced ye"lōz) |
| 4 | -e" l ō z | bellows, fellows. |
| 3 | -l ō z | armadillos, bedfellows, billows, follows, furloughs, gallows, hallows, halos, hollows, mallows, marshmallows, Milos, pillows, solos, swallows. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-o-s-w-y" | |
-1 letter: slowly, solely, yellow. | |
-2 letters: losel, lowes, lowly, lowse, swell, wells, welly, wyles, yells, yowes, yowls. | |
-3 letters: ells, leys, lose, lowe, lows, lyes, lyse, oles, owes, owls, owse, oyes, sell, slew, sloe, slow, sole, well, woes, wyes, wyle, yell, yews, yowe, yowl, yows. | |
-4 letters: ell, els, ley, low, lye, oes, ole, ose, owe, owl, sel. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-o-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: sowbelly. | |
+2 letters: yellowest, yellowish. | |
+3 letters: wordlessly, yellowfins, yellowlegs. | |
+4 letters: playfellows, powerlessly, wholesomely, worthlessly, yellowtails, yellowwares, yellowwoods, yokefellows. | |
+5 letters: collywobbles, gillyflowers. | |
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