Engels Woord van de dag

yellow

geel

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

yellow

1. geel

Engels > Engels

yellow

1. adj. Having yellow as its colour.

2. adj. (informal) Lacking courage.

3. adj. (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.

4. adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).

5. adj. (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.

6. adj. (dated, US) High yellow.

7. adj. (politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.

yellow constituencies

8. adj. (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.

the black-yellow coalition

9. n. (colorbox, yellow) The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.

10. n. (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.

11. n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.

12. n. (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); cont

13. n. (sports) A yellow card.

14. v. (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.

15. v. To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

Nederlands > Engels

geel

1. adj. yellow

De zonsondergang kleurde de lucht in prachtige gele tinten. - The sunset colored the sky in beautiful yellow shades.

Ze droeg een elegant jurkje met een gele bloemenprint. - She wore an elegant dress with a yellow floral pattern.

De gele zonnebloemen stonden in volle bloei. - The yellow sunflowers were in full bloom.

2. n-n. the colour yellow

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

The garden was full of yellow flowers.
    De tuin stond vol met gele bloemen.
The garden was full of beautiful yellow flowers.
    De tuin stond vol mooie gele bloemen.
If you paint it yellow, you'll kill two birds with one stone: it'll stand out, and you'll save money because you can use paint you already have.
    Als je het geel verft, sla je twee vliegen in één klap: én het valt goed op, én je bespaart geld omdat je verf kunt gebruiken die je al in huis hebt.
She doesn't remember if his car was yellow or not.
    Ze herinnert zich niet, of zijn auto geel was of niet.
There were white and yellow flowers at the side of the road.
    Er stonden witte en gele bloemen aan de rand van de straat.

Vorige woorden herzien

ruler	sixty-four	glider	sauce
eight	stationery	sixty-nine	anaesthetic
fence	cable car	bark	wave
minute	skin	February	ambulance

Willekeurig

lightning	hallway	kettle	sixty-five
street	heart	toaster	hovercraft
truck	actor	shelf	locker
living room	hairdresser	ray	honey

Abonneer u op Woord van de Dag

E-mail: