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 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
- 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.