yellow

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What is that yellow stuff on top, Curry?

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Quick take

yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of yellow gathered in one view.

noun

yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

verb

turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow"

adjective

of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for yellow.

noun

yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons

verb

turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow"

adjective

of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk

adjective

easily frightened

adjective

changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"

adjective

typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press"

adjective

cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"

adjective

affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

Example sentences

What is that yellow stuff on top, Curry?

"Oh yes, the black and yellow publisher" I thought.

The entire fox is orange then sharply turns to yellow after the tail starts.

Instead you'll get a purplish blue, a yellowy green and an orangey red.

Some colors like blue and yellow are not affected, but shades of green, orange, brown, red, pink and purple are muddled and washed out.

They had no way of easily tracking leads from the website versus people who just saw them in the yellow pages or something.

He hands out little yellow stickies with his name on them, reminding people "who runs the company" when they disagree with him.

When they have a single AZ go down, they won't even give it a yellow marker on the status page, they'll just put a footnote on a green marker.

Uber is coming in and offering an alternative which is way better than the current yellow cab system.

That's where some of our team heard about the challenge in the first place and that's where we found out about the yellow dot patterns that gave us a huge advantage over the competition that didn't read Hacker News. :P

I wasn't sure what to think of the red/yellow cards when I first heard about them, but the suggestion that it should be bystanders them giving out is awesome.

At the bottom of the page, the yellow icon is associated with 'performance issues'.If there's one thing that's shocked me about AWS, it's the total failure to acknowledge the severity of service disruptions.

It's difficult to know how much of this story is speculation vs fact - whether or not the yellow badged employees are really data entry, whether there are really instructions on the back of the badge with a number to call if someone starts asking questions.

So the audio on channel 1 is now connected to channel 2 at the opposite end, etc.\nThis state will last for a short while until the D channel becomes angry as it is now receiving jibberish and disable the circuit with a yellow alarm as both sides think the remote is at fault.

As I said above:I like that in geek culture we don't have this weird demand for people to be 24/7 ensconced in a professional PR-oriented persona, like a CEO or politician...If people are pulling things out of a personal blog and broadcasting it across the web in sensational terms, I blame the yellow journalists more than him.