yellow

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
美 /ˈjɛloʊ/|/ˈjeləʉ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. 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. US,countable,uncountable
  3. One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points. countable,uncountable
  4. 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). countable,uncountable
  5. A yellow card. countable,uncountable
    — Andrew Surman fired in what proved to be a 37th-minute winner before Forest's Paul Konchesky saw red late on. That second yellow for the loan signing came in stoppage time and did not affect the outcome of a game which Norwich dominated.
  6. Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur. countable,uncountable
    — Several other beautiful butterflies rewarded my search in this place [...] The most abundant butterflies were the whites and yellows (Pieridae), several of which I had already found at Lombock and at Coupang, while others were new to me.
动词 v.
  1. To become yellow or yellower. intransitive
    — Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
  2. To make (something) yellow or yellower. transitive
  3. To promote (a captain) to flag rank without command of a squadron, ending his career; to make him a yellow admiral. historical,transitive
    — Then they might yellow him if they wanted to; he would be satisfied with Admiral’s rank.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a yellow hue.
    — He had a yellow laptop in his bag.
  2. Lacking courage. informal
    — What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.
  3. Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
    — The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.
  4. Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese. derogatory,ethnic,offensive,slur
    — They were all tall and all handsome, though they varied in their degree of darkness of skin, some being as dark as Mahomed, and some as yellow as a Chinese.
  5. Far East Asian (relating to Asian people). derogatory,ethnic,offensive,slur
    — Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.
  6. Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry. Australia,dated,offensive
    — "Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?".
  7. Synonym of high yellow. US,dated
    — Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.
  8. Related to the Liberal Democrats. UK
    — yellow constituencies
  9. Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.
    — the black–yellow coalition
感叹词 intj.
  1. Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporary break from current sexual activity.

词形变化

yellows plural yeallow alternative yeller alternative yaller alternative yellower comparative yellowest superlative yeallow alternative yeller alternative yaller alternative yellows present,singular,third-person yellowing participle,present yellowed participle,past yellowed past yeallow alternative yeller alternative yaller alternative yeallow alternative yeller alternative yaller alternative

词汇关系

近义词
xantho- blond cream dandelion gold khaki lemon yellow
上位词
color hue pigment
下位词
bronze yellow cadmium yellow fast yellow AB quinoline yellow lemon yellow optic yellow school bus yellow sulfur yellow sulphur yellow taxi yellow yellow-green yellow 2G
衍生词
beyellowed absinthe yellow aniline yellow antimony yellow Apennine yellow-bellied toad arylide yellow Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross aurora yellow Berger's clouded yellow black-and-yellow grosbeak blue-and-yellow macaw butter yellow chrome yellow clouded yellow code yellow common yellow oxalis common yellow woodsorrel dandelion yellow Doctor Yellow double yellow line double yellow lines eastern yellow robin eastern yellow wagtail federal yellow full-course yellow golden-yellow grass-yellow greater yellow-headed vulture green-yellow halberdleaf yellow violet highway yellow high yellow if it's yellow let it mellow Indian yellow infrayellow iodine yellow king's yellow Leipzig yellow lime yellow Lucifer yellow Martius yellow mellow yellow mountain clouded yellow naphthalene yellow naphthol yellow Naples yellow pale clouded yellow pinard yellow royal yellow safety yellow saffron yellow second yellow card selective yellow single yellow line southern yellow pine spotless grass yellow strontium yellow summer yellow the yellow peril upright yellow-sorrel visual yellow wear yellow stockings western yellow pine western yellow wagtail yellow acacia yellow admiral yellow-ammer yellow anaconda yellow anemone yellow arsenic yellow ash yellow atrophy yellow baboon yellow-back yellow back yellow badge yellow bark yellow bear yellow bedstraw yellow beet yellow-bellied yellow-bellied fairy-fantail yellow-bellied fantail yellow-bellied sapsucker yellow-bellied sea snake yellow-bellied slider yellow-bellied tit yellow bells yellowbelly yellow belly yellow bile yellow-billed chough yellow-billed cuckoo yellow-billed duck yellow-billed egret yellow-billed grosbeak yellow-billed kite yellow-billed loon yellow-billed spoonbill yellow-billed teal yellow-billed tit-tyrant yellow birch yellowbird yellow-bird yellow bird's-nest yellow bittern yellow bob yellow bone Yellow Book yellow box yellow boy yellow brain yellow brain fungus yellow-breasted bunting yellow-breasted chat yellow-breasted greenfinch yellow brick road yellow-brick road yellow bristle grass yellow broom yellow-browed antbird yellow-browed bunting yellow-browed tit yellow-browed warbler yellow bugle yellow bullhead yellow bunting yellow cab yellow cake yellow card yellow-card yellow cedar yellow centaury yellow-cheeked tit yellow cobra yellow coltsfoot yellow coneflower yellow copper yellow copperas yellow crazy ant yellow-crescent blister beetle yellow cross liquid yellow-crowned yellow-crowned bishop yellow dock yellow dog yellow dog contract yellow dog Democrat yellow dog fund yellow dragon disease yellow dryad yellow dwarf yellow earth yellow-edged pygarctia yellow elder yellow-eyed babbler yellow-eyed grass yellow-eyed penguin yellowface yellow false indigo yellow fat disease yellow fever yellow flag yellow flax yellow-flowered water hyssop yellow flycatcher yellow fumitory yellow garden spider yellow goat yellow-golds yellow goods yellow grease yellow-green alga yellow-green brushfinch yellow gum yellow-haired yellowhammer yellow-hammer yellow hammer yellow harlequin yellow-headed amazon yellow-headed blackbird yellow hill ant yellow horde yellow iris yellowish yellowism yellow jack yellow-jacket yellow jacket yellow jasmine yellow jersey yellow jessamine yellow journalism yellow journalist yellow knight yellow lady's slipper yellow-legged gull yellow-legged tinamou yellow light yellow light of death yellow line yellow-lipped sea krait yellow locust yellowly yellow mai yellow man yellow-mantled weaver yellow meadow ant yellow media Yellow Medicine County yellow menace yellow metal yellow Monday yellow mongoose yellow moray yellow nail syndrome yellow-naped amazon yellow-necked field mouse yellow-necked mouse yellow nigger yellow nightshade yellow notice yellow ochre yellow off yellow oleander yellow onion yellow-orange yellow oriole yellow orpiment yellow out yellow pages yellow paint yellow passport yellow patch yellow pea yellow pepper yellow perch yellow peril yellow perilist yellow persimmon yellow phosphorus Yellow Pinch yellow pine yellow plum yellow pocket yellow pond-lily yellow pond lily yellow poplar yellow precipitate yellow press yellow prussiate of soda yellow rain yellow-rattle yellow rattle yellow-red yellow restharrow yellow ribbon Yellow River Yellow Rock yellow rocket yellow-rump yellow-rumped yellow-rumped finch yellow-rumped mannikin yellow-rumped warbler yellow sallfly yellow Sally yellow salsify Yellow Sea yellow seahorse yellow-shafted flicker yellow sheet yellow shirt yellow shoot disease yellow-shouldered ladybird yellow sigatoka yellowskin yellow-skinned yellow slug yellow snow yellow soap yellow sorghum stunt yellow spot yellow-spot cadlina yellow squash yellow star yellow state yellow streak yellow supergiant yellowtail yellow-tailed black cockatoo yellow tang yellow tea yellow terror yellow thistle yellow-throated yellow-throated marten yellow-throated spadebill yellow-throated warbler yellow ticket yellow tit yellow toadflax yellow-toothed cavy yellow trap yellow trembler yellow trillium yellow trumpetbush yellow tussock yellow union yellow up yellow-vented bulbul yellow vest yellow warbler yellow wash yellow waterlily yellow-weed yellow-white yellow willowherb yellow wine yellow wood anemone yellow woodland anemone yellow woodsorrel yellow wood sorrel yellow yarrow
相关词
cowardly decoloured discolored icterus jaundice red orange green blue violet white

词源

词源 1
From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wós, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”).
Cognate with Scots yella (“yellow”), North Frisian gööl, güül (“yellow”), Saterland Frisian jeel (“yellow”), West Frisian giel (“yellow”), Cimbrian gel, ghéel (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”), Dutch Low Saxon gael, gel (“yellow”), German gelb, gehl (“yellow”), German Low German gel, geel, gęl, gäl (“yellow”), Luxembourgish giel (“yellow”), Vilamovian gaoł (“yellow”), Yiddish געל (gel), געלב (gelb, “yellow”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gul (“yellow”), Faroese and Icelandic gulur (“yellow”). Compare also Welsh gell (“bay, tawny”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”).
The verb is from Middle English yelwen, ȝalowen, ȝolewen, from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.
词源 2
From the colors used on traffic lights; yellow being the one for warning vehicles to stop soon.
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