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In lang=en terms the difference between yellow and tree

is that yellow is to make (something) yellow or more yellow while tree is to place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

As nouns the difference between yellow and tree

is that 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 while tree is a large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).

As verbs the difference between yellow and tree

is that yellow is to become yellow or more yellow while tree is to chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

As an adjective yellow

is having yellow as its colour.

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:
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  • 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.

    • See also

    * All pages with yellow as a prefix *

    tree

    English

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    Noun

    (en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)
  • A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).
    • is the tallest living tree in the world.
    Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
  • Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree".
  • An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks]] or storage [[platform, platforms.
    • He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree .
  • A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
    • He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
  • The structural frame of a saddle.
  • (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n'' vertices and ''n -1 edges.
  • (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
  • (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
    • We’ll show it as a tree list.
  • Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
  • The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
  • (informal) Marijuana.
  • (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
    • Tyburn tree
  • * Bible, Acts x. 39
    • [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree .
  • (obsolete) wood; timber
  • * Wyclif Bible (2 Tim. ii. 20)
    • In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.
  • (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

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    Proverbs

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    Hypernyms

    * plant * (in graph theory) graph

    Hyponyms

    * oak, fir, pine * see also:

    Synonyms

    * sapling, seedling

    See also

    * * arboreal

    Verb

    (d)
  • To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
    • The dog treed the cat.
  • To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
    • to tree a boot

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