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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

His teeth are yellow from smoking too much.
    Zijn tanden zijn geel van te veel roken.
These green leaves turn red or yellow in autumn.
    Deze groene bladeren worden rood of geel in de herfst.
You should not cross if the light is yellow.
    Bij oranje zou je niet meer door het stoplicht mogen rijden.
The leaves of the tree turned yellow.
    De bladeren van de boom zijn vergeeld.
This is not yellow; it's green.
    Dit is niet geel; het is groen.

Vorige woorden herzien

long	mirror	handbag	school desk
eighteen	red	hour	beer
living room	blink	small	pear
syringe	cymbal	underwear	seventy-nine

Willekeurig

paintbrush	kitchen	twelve	autumn
five	outside	root	balloon
bolt	towel	bicycle	purple
class	sixteen	bathrobe	nineteen

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