Ship vs Yellow - What's the difference?
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A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
(chiefly, in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
(archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
(label) To send by water-borne transport.
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
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, title= (label) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
(label) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
(label) To embark on a ship.
To put in its place.
(label) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
(label) To pass (from one person to another).
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, title= To go all in.
(label) To trade or send a player to another team.
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, title= (fandom) A fictional romantic relationship between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.
(fandom) To write fiction that includes fictional romantic relationships between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.
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 nouns the difference between ship and yellow
is that ship is a water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat or ship can be (fandom) a fictional romantic relationship between two persons, either real or themselves fictional while 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 verbs the difference between ship and yellow
is that ship is (label) to send by water-borne transport or ship can be (fandom) to write fiction that includes fictional romantic relationships between two persons, either real or themselves fictional while yellow is to become yellow or more yellow.As an adjective yellow is
having yellow as its colour.ship
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ship, schip, from (etyl) scip, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) skip, (etyl) schip, (etyl) Schiff, (etyl) .Alternative forms
* shippe (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- (Tyndale)
Usage notes
* The singular form (term) is sometimes used without any , producing such sentences as "In all, we spent three weeks aboard ship." and "Abandon ship!". (Similar patterns may be seen with many place nouns, such as (camp), (home), (work), and (school), but the details vary between them.) * Ships are traditionally regarded as feminine and the pronouns (her) and (she) are normally used instead of (it).Hyponyms
*Derived terms
* abandon ship * airship * battleship * cargo ship * coffin ship * cruise ship * escort ship * fireship * Her Majesty's Ship, His Majesty's Ship * jump ship * merchant ship * midship, midships * mother ship * sailing ship * ship ahoy! * shipboard * ship-breaker * shipbuilder * shipbuilding * ship canal * ship chandler * ship fever * shipload * shipmate * shipmaster * shipowner * ship's company * shipshape * ships that pass in the night * ship-to-shore * shipwise * shipwreck * shipwright * shipyard * sinking ship * sister ship * slave ship * spaceship * starship * tall ship * tight ship * transport ship * warshipVerb
(shipp)- The timber wasshipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
- With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said:—“Ye’ve shipped , have ye? Names down on the papers? Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be;
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, passage=And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.}}
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.}}
Derived terms
* shipment * shippage (rare)Etymology 2
From (relationship).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(shipp)- I ship Kirk and Spock in my ''Star Trek'' fan fiction.
See also
* -shipStatistics
*Anagrams
* * *External links
* 1000 English basic wordsyellow
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.
- dorr?&
- 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n.
- You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
Photo edict muffles gossipy press," International Herald Tribune , 4 Oct. (retrieved 29 July 2008),
- 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
{{der3 , double yellow lines , high yellow , yellow anemone , yellowbelly , yellow-bellied , yellow-bellied sapsucker , yellow bile , yellow-billed loon , yellowbird , yellow birch , yellow-breasted chat , yellow brick road , yellow cake , yellow card , yellow-card , yellow dog , yellow dog contract , yellow dwarf , yellow-eyed penguin , yellowface , yellow fever , yellow-green alga , yellow-haired , yellowhammer , yellow horde , yellow jack , yellow jersey , yellow jessamine , yellow journalism , yellow-legged tinamou , yellow light , yellow menace , yellow-necked mouse , yellow oriole , yellow pages , yellow perch , yellow peril , yellow phosphorus , yellow pine , yellow pocket , yellow poplar , yellow press , yellow rattle , Yellow River , Yellow Sea , yellow-shafted flicker , yellow sheet , yellow spot , yellowtail , yellow terror , yellow-throated , yellow-throated warbler , yellow warbler , yellow wood anemone , yellow woodland anemone }}Noun
(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.
citation, page= , passage=Andrew Surman fired in what proved to be a 37th-minute winner before Forest's Paul Konchesky saw red late on. That second yellow for the loan signing came in stoppage time and did not affect the outcome of a game which Norwich dominated.}}
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*