Engels Woord van de dag

yellow

geel

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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

There were white and yellow flowers at the side of the road.
    Er stonden witte en gele bloemen aan de rand van de straat.
The flower is yellow and the others are blue.
    De bloem is geel en de andere zijn blauw.
All the leaves on the tree turned yellow.
    Alle bladeren aan de boom werden geel.
All the leaves on the tree have turned yellow.
    Alle bladeren aan de boom zijn geel geworden.
These green leaves turn red or yellow in autumn.
    Deze groene bladeren worden rood of geel in de herfst.

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