different between yellowhead vs canary

English

Etymology

yellow +? head

Noun

yellowhead (plural yellowheads)

1. Chaetodon xanthocephalus, the yellowhead butterflyfish.
2. Opistognathus aurifrons, the yellowheaded jawfish.
3. A plant of some species of genus Inula of the daisy family.
4. A plant in genus Trichoptilium, in the daisy family.
5. Zanthoxylum flavum, a plant related to citrus.
6. (informal) A pimple or pustule without a blackhead.
   • 2007, Tim Mitchell, Alison Dudley, Acne: The At Your Fingertips Guide (page 5)

     A pustule is the typical pus spot or yellowhead.

7. A New Zealand bird, Mohoua ochrocephala, the mohua.

English

Etymology

From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from can?rius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??n???i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??n???i/

Noun

canary (countable and uncountable, plural canaries)

1. A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
2. Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
3. A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.

4. (countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
5. A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
6. Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
7. (computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
8. (computing) A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
9. (informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
10. (slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
11. (slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
12. (Australia, informal) A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness.

Synonyms

• (informant): See Thesaurus:informant

Hyponyms

• Serinus canaria, Serinus pusillus, Serinus serinus

Derived terms

• Abyssinian grosbeak canary (Crithagra donaldsoni)
• Atlantic canary (Serinus canaria)
• black-faced canary (Crithagra capistratus)
• black-headed canary (Serinus alario)
• black-throated canary (Crithagra atrogularis)
• brimstone canary (Crithagra sulphuratus)
• bully canary (Crithagra sulphuratus)
• bush canary (Mohoua ochrocephala)
• canarybird flower (Tropaeolum peregrinum)
• canarybird vine (Tropaeolum peregrinum)
• canary bird
• canary creeper (Tropaeolum peregrinum)
• canary clover (Dorycnium hirsutum)
• canary fit
• canary-flycatcher (in genus Culicicapa)
• canary flyrobin (Devioeca papuana)
• canary in a coal mine
• canary grass (Phalaris canariensis)
• canary nasturtium (Tropaeolum peregrinum)
• canary parakeet
• canarypox (Canarypox virus)
• canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger)
• canary-winged finch (Melanodera melanodera)
• canary-winged parakeet (Brotogeris versicolurus)
• canary wood, canary whitewood
• canary yellow
• Cape canary (Serinus canicollis)
• climate canary
• common canary (Serinus canaria)
• Damara canary (Serinus alario leucolaema)
• domestic canary (Serinus canaria)
• forest canary (Crithagra scotops)
• island canary (Serinus canaria)
• Kenya grosbeak-canary (Crithagra buchanani)
• lemon-breasted canary (Crithagra citrinipectus)
• miner's canary
• Missouri canary
• northern grosbeak-canary (Crithagra donaldsoni)
• papyrus canary (Crithagra koliensis)
• protea canary (Crithagra leucoptera)
• Rocky Mountain canary
• sea canary (Delphinapterus leucas)
• sing like a canary
• southern grosbeak-canary (Crithagra buchanani)
• stack canary
• white-bellied canary (Crithagra dorsostriatus)
• white-throated canary (Crithagra albogularis)
• yellow-eyed canary, yellow-fronted canary (Crithagra mozambica)
• yellow-crowned canary (Serinus flavivertex)
• warrant canary

Translations

Adjective

canary (comparative more canary, superlative most canary)

1. Of a light yellow colour.

Translations

Verb

canary (third-person singular simple present canaries, present participle canarying, simple past and past participle canaried)

1. (intransitive) to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance)
   • 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, III. i. 11:

     but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,

2. (slang) to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
3. (computing) to test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.

Synonyms

• (to inform): See Thesaurus:rat out

Derived terms

• bush canary
• canary creeper
• canary grass
• canary in a coal mine
• canary yellow

Related terms

• serin
• yellowhead

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors