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# yellow

«yellow» in Mova's school dictionary: **the colour of the sun, bananas, lemons and egg yolks** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#m1)

2) Leaves or paper yellow when they turn yellow with age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#m2)

3) In old slang, yellow means scared (not kind to say). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#m3)

4) A person's face can look yellow, or pale, when they are ill or jealous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#x1)
- 12 of the 20 flowers are yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#x2)
- How many are not yellow? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#x3)
- Yellow pencils cost 10 cents each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#x4)
- Mix yellow and blue to make green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#x5)
- The referee showed him a yellow card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#x6)
- In the USA, school buses are yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#x7)
- The old book's pages had turned yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#x8)
- "I know why thou art so yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/8/)
- [Soil gives plants water, grip for their roots and minerals such as nitrogen; without minerals plants grow small and yellow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/12/)
- [Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all their life, so yellow-orange teeth are normal and healthy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/8/)
- [All wild budgies are green and yellow; the blue, white and other colours were bred in pet budgies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/6/)
- [Rapeseed and sunflowers make seeds that are pressed into cooking oil, and the yellow rapeseed fields are busy with bees in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «yellow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yellow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.