Cow vs Yellow - What's the difference?
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A female domesticated ox or other bovine, especially an adult after she has had a calf.
More generally, any domestic bovine regardless of sex or age.
The meat of such animals as food (more commonly called beef).
The female of larger species of mammal, including bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.
(derogatory, informal) A woman who is considered despicable in some way, especially one considered to be fat, lazy, ugly, argumentative, mean or spiteful.
(informal) Anything that is annoyingly difficult, awkward or graceless.
(informal) A conniption fit or hissy fit; a state of agitation .
(mining) A wedge or brake to stop a machine or car; a chock.
To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of.
* Shakespeare
(UK, dialect) A chimney cowl.
* 1836 , Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers ?
Having yellow as its colour.
* Milton
* Keble
* 1911', , "The green eye of the little ' yellow god,"
* 1962' (quoting '''c. 1398 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
(lb) Lacking courage.
*Monty Python
Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
* 2004 , Doreen Carvajal, "
Asian (relating to Asian people).
High yellow.
* 1933 September 9, (James Thurber), “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, in The New Yorker :
Related to the .
* 2012' March 2, Andrew Grice, "
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(yellow) The colour of gold or butter; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
* 1892 , Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
(US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
(pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow[s] and red[s]); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls ).
(sports) yellow card
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To become yellow or more yellow.
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, page 47:
To make (something) yellow or more yellow.
As an acronym cow
is (computing).As an adjective yellow is
having yellow as its colour.As a noun yellow is
(yellow) the colour of gold or butter; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.As a verb yellow is
to become yellow or more yellow.cow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia cow) (en-noun) (see usage notes)- That website is a real cow to navigate.
- (Knight)
Usage notes
The plural cows is the normal plural for multiple individuals, while cattle is used in a more collective sense. The umlaut plurals ky, kye and kine are archaic and no longer in common use.Synonyms
* bitch * bastard, bitch, bugger (UK)Antonyms
* (female domesticated ox or other bovine) bullSee also
* (meat) chicken, pig, pork, goat, lamb, muttonDerived terms
(terms derived from "cow") * cowboy * cow catcher, cowcatcher * cow corner * cowgirl * cowherd * cowmilk, cow milk * cowpoke * cowpool * cowpuncher * cowshed * cow shot * cow tipping * cash cow * have a cow * holy cow * sacred cowSee also
* * beef * bovine * bull * calf * cattle * heifer * steer * low * moo * ox * vealEtymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Con artists are not cowed by the law.
- To vanquish a people already cowed .
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- Who could live to gaze from day to day on bricks and slates, who had once felt the influence of a scene like this? Who could continue to exist, where there are no cows but the cows on the chimneypots; nothing redolent of Pan but pan-tiles;
Anagrams
* (l) English nouns with irregular pluralsyellow
English
Alternative forms
* yeallow (obsolete), yeller (slang)Adjective
(er)- A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.
- The line of yellow light dies fast away.
- There's a one-eyed yellow' idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the ' yellow god for ever gazes down.
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- 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n.
- You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
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- The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.
- Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.
'''Yellowrebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal'", ''The Independent
- yellow constituencies
- The black-yellow coalition
Synonyms
* (lacking courage) cowardlyAntonyms
* (having yellow as its colour) nonyellow, unyellowDerived terms
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(wikipedia yellow) (en noun)- It is the strangest yellow , that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.
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Synonyms
* (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights) amber (British)Antonyms
* (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights) red, greenHyponyms
* (color) bronze yellow, cadmium yellow, fast yellow AB, quinoline yellow, school bus yellow, sulfur yellow, sulphur yellow, taxi yellow, yellow-green,Derived terms
* see yellowVerb
- Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
See also
*All pages with yellow as a prefix*