yellow
part of speech
adjective (yellow, yellower, yellowest); noun (yellow); verb (yellow — to turn yellow)
meaning for a pupil
1) Yellow is the colour of the sun, bananas, lemons and egg yolks. tree →
2) Leaves or paper yellow when they turn yellow with age. tree →
3) In old slang, yellow means scared (not kind to say). tree →
4) A person's face can look yellow, or pale, when they are ill or jealous. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Leviticus it describes a thin yellow hair in a skin sore, one of the signs the priest checks to judge a person unclean. Interpretation: The rabbis read this as a ritual matter, not a medical one, and the priest, not a doctor, decided. The condition is linked with wrong speech, as in the story of Miriam. In the primary lessons: In school maths: a colour that sorts things into groups; others = total − yellow. In art: yellow is a primary colour; yellow and blue make green. In everyday life and safety: yellow school buses, a yellow card in football (a warning), yellow warning signs, a yellow traffic light means get ready to stop. Phrases: «bright yellow», «yellow card», «yellow line».
examples
- then the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow hair: he is unclean. (Torah LEV.13.36, JPS 1917) tree →
- And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the scall be not spread, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall be not deeper than the skin, (Torah LEV.13.32, JPS 1917) tree →
- She has 6 yellow balloons and 4 red ones. tree →
- 12 of the 20 flowers are yellow. tree →
- How many are not yellow? tree →
- Yellow pencils cost 10 cents each. tree →
- Mix yellow and blue to make green. tree →
- The referee showed him a yellow card. tree →
- In the USA, school buses are yellow. tree →
- The old book's pages had turned yellow. tree →
- "I know why thou art so yellow. tree →
note
Primary colours in painting: red, yellow, blue. Maths: a label for a group; groups of colours add to the total; others = total − yellow.
In the corpora
- Printers use cyan, magenta and yellow instead, which mix cleaner colours.
- Soil gives plants water, grip for their roots and minerals such as nitrogen; without minerals plants grow small and yellow.
- Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all their life, so yellow-orange teeth are normal and healthy.
- All wild budgies are green and yellow; the blue, white and other colours were bred in pet budgies.
- Rapeseed and sunflowers make seeds that are pressed into cooking oil, and the yellow rapeseed fields are busy with bees in spring.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «yellow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.