Big vs Yellow - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between big and yellow

is that big is of great size, large while yellow is having yellow as its colour.

As nouns the difference between big and yellow

is that big is an important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name or big can be one or more kinds of barley, especially (six-rowed barley) 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 big and yellow

is that big is to praise or recommend or big can be to inhabit; occupy while yellow is to become yellow or more yellow.

As an adverb big

is in a loud manner.

big

English

Etymology 1

From a northern (etyl) dialectal term (m), .

Adjective

(bigger)

Of great size, large.

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(lb) Thought to have undue influence.

Popular.

(lb) Adult.

*1931 , , Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:

*:By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]

(lb) Fat.

(lb) Important or significant.

*:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport

, title= Norwich 3-3 Blackburn , passage=It proved a big miss as Hoilett produced a sublime finish into the top corner of the net from 20 yards after evading a couple of challenges in first-half stoppage time.}}

Enthusiastic (about).

(lb) Mature, conscientious, principled.

(lb) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.

Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.

*(and other bibliographic details) (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)

*:[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.

(lb)

Synonyms

* (of a great size) ample, huge, large, sizeable, stoor, jumbo, massive * (adult) adult, fully grown, grown up * See also

Antonyms

* (of a great size) little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute * (adult) little, young

Derived terms

* Big Apple * big-ass * big baby * big band * Big Bang * big bath * big beat * Big Ben * Big Bertha * big blind * big bluestem * Big Board * big-boned * big box * big boy/big boys * big break * big brother * Big Brother * big bucks * big business * big C * big cat * big cheese * Big Crunch * Big D * big daddy * big deal * Big Dipper * Big Easy * big enchilada * big end * big fat/big-fat/big phat * big figure * big fish * big fly * Big Four * big game * biggie, no biggie * big girl's blouse * big government * big gun * big H/Big H * big hair * big hand * big head/big-head * big-headed * big-hearted * big house * big idea * big if * big iron * Big Island * big kid * big labor * big-league * big lick * big lie * big lug * big kahuna * Big Mac * big money * big mouth * Big Muddy * big name / big-name * bigness * big O * big O notation * big old/big ole * big one/the big one * big pharma * big picture * Big Q * big rig * Big Rip * big science * big screen * big shagbank * big shot * big shoulder * big six/the big six * Big Six * big sleep * big slick * Big Smoke * big spender * big spring * big stick * Big Sur * big talk * big tent * Big Three * big-ticket * big time/big-time/bigtime * big toe * big top/big-top * big tree * Big Uglies * big up * big wheel * big whoop * big wig/big-wig/bigwig * big-wigged * big wow * great big * hit it big * make it big * /Mr Big/Mister Big * the bigs * too big for one's boots * too big to fail

Adverb

(bigger)

In a loud manner.

In a boasting manner.

He's always talking big , but he never delivers.

In a large amount or to a large extent.

He won big betting on the croquet championship.

On a large scale, expansively

You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.

Hard.

He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.

Noun

(en noun)

An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.

(as plural) The big leagues, big time.

Synonyms

* (big leagues) major leagues

Verb

(up)

To praise or recommend

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

Verb

to inhabit; occupy

to locate one's self

to build; erect; fashion

to dwell; have a dwelling

Etymology 3

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(-)

One or more kinds of barley, especially (six-rowed barley).

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yellow

English

Alternative forms

* yeallow (obsolete), yeller (slang)

Adjective

(er)

Having yellow as its colour.

* Milton

A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.

* Keble

The line of yellow light dies fast away.

* 1911', , "The green eye of the little ' yellow god,"

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.

* 1962' (quoting '''c. 1398 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:

dorr?&773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n.

(lb) Lacking courage.

*Monty Python

You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!

Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.

* 2004 , Doreen Carvajal, " 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.

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 :

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.

Related to the .

* 2012' March 2, Andrew Grice, " '''Yellow rebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal'", ''The Independent

yellow constituencies

.

The black-yellow coalition

Synonyms

* (lacking courage) cowardly

Antonyms

* (having yellow as its colour) nonyellow, unyellow

Derived 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)
(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

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.

(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

* {{quote-news
, year=2011 , date=April 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest , work=BBC Sport 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, green

Hyponyms

* (color) bronze yellow, cadmium yellow, fast yellow AB, quinoline yellow, school bus yellow, sulfur yellow, sulphur yellow, taxi yellow, yellow-green,

Derived terms

* see yellow

Verb

To become yellow or more yellow.

* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, page 47:

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.

To make (something) yellow or more yellow.