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yellow
English
Alternative forms
- yeallow (obsolete), yeller (dialect)
Etymology
From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ?eolwe, oblique form of of Old English ?eolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??elh?wos, from *??elh?- (“gleam, yellow”)
Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”)), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek ?????? (khl?rós, “light green”), Persian ???? (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit ??? (hari, “greenish-yellow”)). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).
The verb is from Old English ?eolwian, from the adjective.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?j?l.??/
- (General American) enPR: y?l??, IPA(key): /?j?l.o?/
- (dialect) IPA(key): /?j?l.?/
- (dated, Southern US folk speech) IPA(key): /j?l?/, /?jæl?/, /?j?l?/, /?j?l?/, /?j?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l??
Adjective
yellow (comparative yellower or more yellow, superlative yellowest or most yellow)
- Having yellow as its color.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) - Book X, line 434
- A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.
- 1911, J. Milton Hayes, "The green eye of the little yellow god,"
- There's a one-eyed yellow idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the yellow god for ever gazes down.
- 1962 (quoting c. 1398 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, editors, Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
- dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ?elou? colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & li?t red tokeneþ mene.
- Antonyms: nonyellow, unyellow
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) - Book X, line 434
- (informal) Lacking courage.
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:
- 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.
- 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
- Synonym: cowardly
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:
- (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- 2004, Doreen Carvajal, "Photo edict muffles gossipy press," International Herald Tribune, 4 Oct. (retrieved 29 July 2008),
- 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.
- 2004, Doreen Carvajal, "Photo edict muffles gossipy press," International Herald Tribune, 4 Oct. (retrieved 29 July 2008),
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, racist) Of the skin, having the colour traditionally attributed to Far East Asians, especially Chinese.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
- 1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
- Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.
- 1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
- (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 64, [2]
- "Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?".
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 64, [2]
- (dated, US) Synonym of high yellow
- 1933 September 9, James Thurber, “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, in The New Yorker
- 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.
- 1933 September 9, James Thurber, “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, in The New Yorker
- (Britain, politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
- 2012 March 2, Andrew Grice, "Yellow rebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal'", The Independent
- (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
yellow (plural yellows)
- The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
- (US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
- (pocket billiards) 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).
- (sports) A yellow card.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.
Synonyms
- (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): amber (British)
Antonyms
- (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): red, green
Hyponyms
- (color): bronze yellow, cadmium yellow, fast yellow AB, quinoline yellow, school bus yellow, sulfur yellow, sulphur yellow, taxi yellow, yellow-green, yellow 2G
Derived terms
- beyellowed
- see yellow
Translations
Verb
yellow (third-person singular simple present yellows, present participle yellowing, simple past and past participle yellowed)
- (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 47:
- 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.
- 2013, Robert Miraldi, Seymour Hersh, Potomac Books, Inc. (?ISBN), page 187:
- Interviews, clippings, yellowing stories from foreign newspapers, notebooks with old scribblings. Salisbury called it the debris of a reporter always too much on the run to sort out the paper, but there it was, an investigator's dream, […]
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 47:
- (transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.
Translations
See also
- All pages with yellow as a prefix
References
Anagrams
- Yowell
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tree
English
Etymology
From Middle English tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trow, from Old English tr?o, tr?ow (“tree, wood, timber, beam, log, stake, stick, grove, cross, rood”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trew? (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t?i?/, [t???????i?]
- (General American) enPR: tr?, IPA(key): /t?i/, [t??????i]
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophone: three (with th-stopping)
Noun
tree (plural trees or (obsolete) treen)
- A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage.
- 1992 April 5, "The Full House", Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:
- B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.
- 1992 April 5, "The Full House", Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:
- Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n?1 edges.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
- (obsolete) Wood; timber.
- In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
- plant
- (in graph theory): graph
Hyponyms
- See also Category:en:Trees
Meronyms
Derived terms
Proverbs
- money doesn't grow on trees
- see the forest for the trees
Descendants
- Jamaican Creole: chrii
Translations
See also
- Thesaurus:tree
- Category:Trees
- arboreal
References
- Tree (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
tree (third-person singular simple present trees, present participle treeing, simple past and past participle treed)
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- 1897, Henry Howard et al. (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Sport, London: Lawrence & Bullen, Volume I, p. 599,[2]
- When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.
- 1897, Henry Howard et al. (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Sport, London: Lawrence & Bullen, Volume I, p. 599,[2]
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
- (transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
- 1930, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 14, p. 165,[3]
- Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.
- 1930, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 14, p. 165,[3]
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
Translations
Anagrams
- reet, rete, teer
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch tree, syncopic form of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tr???/
Noun
tree (plural treë)
- step (single act of placing the foot when walking)
- yard (unit of length)
Dutch
Alternative forms
- trede
Etymology
From syncope of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tre?/, [tre?], [tre??]
- Hyphenation: tree
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
tree m (plural treden or treeën or trees, diminutive treetje n)
- step (of a staircase), stair
- step (distance of one step when walking)
- (archaic, also tred) a unit of length of about 2 to 3 feet, roughly equivalent to a yard
Derived terms
- traptree
Descendants
- Afrikaans: tree
Anagrams
- eert, eter, reet, teer, tere
Manx
Alternative forms
- three
Etymology
From Old Irish trí, from Proto-Celtic *tr?s, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ri?/
Numeral
tree
- three
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “trí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle English
Noun
tree
- Alternative form of tre
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian thr?.
Numeral
tree
- (Heligoland) three
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