Noun | 1. | yellow - the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons Synonyms: yellowness |
Verb | 1. | yellow - turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow" |
Adj. | 1. | yellow - similar to the color of an egg yolk |
2. | yellow - easily frightened | |
3. | yellow - changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment" Synonyms: yellowed | |
4. | yellow - typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow journalism" Synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic | |
5. | yellow - cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight" | |
6. | yellow - affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc |
Yellow - A language from SRI proposed to meet the Ironman
requirements which led to Ada. ["On the YELLOW Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):22-26, Oct 1978]. |