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- filled with fear or apprehension
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity
- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
- Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
- Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something). [with for]
- Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation. [with that (+ clause) or clause; or with so or not]
verb
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
adj
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
verb
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
- be uneasy or apprehensive about
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
- (transitive) To regret.
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
noun
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- an anxious feeling
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
adj
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- excessive or uncontrollable fear
- neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
- state of violent mental agitation
- (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
- (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
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- a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
- A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
- A snail of the genus Vertigo.
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verb
- To be apprehensive; to fear.
- To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
- (law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- To understand.
- To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
- To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
- To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
- To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
- To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
- get the meaning of something
- take into custody
- anticipate with dread or anxiety
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adj
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- a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
- the flesh of a chicken used for food
- a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
- A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the "chicken" (that is, the loser).
- (uncountable) The game of dare.
- (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A young or inexperienced person.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A coward.
verb
adj
- easily frightened
- cowardly or treacherous
- changed to a yellowish color by age
- affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
- typical of tabloids
- of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
- (informal) Lacking courage.
- Of a yellow hue.
- (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
- (UK politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
- (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.
noun
- yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.
- (US) The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
- (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)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
- (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
- (sports) A yellow card.
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- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
- Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
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- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- (film) Clipping of jump cut.
- (slang) Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- (US, informal, automotive) Ellipsis of jump-start.
- (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- (physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
verb
- (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- (intransitive, slang) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.
- (transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
- (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- (transitive) To cause to jump.
- (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
- (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
- (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- (intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
- rise in rank or status
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- increase suddenly and significantly
- cause to jump or leap
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- make a sudden physical attack on
- enter eagerly into
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- jump down from an elevated point
- be highly noticeable
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- run off or leave the rails
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- bypass
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- a very troublesome child
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
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- excessive or uncontrollable fear
- neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
- state of violent mental agitation
- (informal, psychopathology) Synonym of conversion disorder.
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.
- (medicine, nosologically dated) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
noun
noun
- a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
- A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
- A snail of the genus Vertigo.
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verb
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- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- (film) Clipping of jump cut.
- (slang) Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- (US, informal, automotive) Ellipsis of jump-start.
- (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- (physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
verb
- (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- (intransitive, slang) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.
- (transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
- (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- (transitive) To cause to jump.
- (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
- (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
- (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- (intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
- rise in rank or status
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- increase suddenly and significantly
- cause to jump or leap
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- make a sudden physical attack on
- enter eagerly into
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- jump down from an elevated point
- be highly noticeable
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- run off or leave the rails
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- bypass
verb
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
adj
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- a very troublesome child
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
adj
noun
verb
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
adj
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
verb
- be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event
- be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
- be uneasy or apprehensive about
- be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
- regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
- (transitive) To regret.
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
noun
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- an anxious feeling
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
- (countable) Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
adj
verb
- To be apprehensive; to fear.
- To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
- (law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
- To understand.
- To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
- To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
- To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
- To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
- To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
- get the meaning of something
- take into custody
- anticipate with dread or anxiety
verb
noun
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
- Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
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adj
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adj
adj
- filled with fear or apprehension
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity
- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
- Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
- Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something). [with for]
- Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation. [with that (+ clause) or clause; or with so or not]
verb
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
adj
noun
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
- the flesh of a chicken used for food
- a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
- A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the "chicken" (that is, the loser).
- (uncountable) The game of dare.
- (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A young or inexperienced person.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A coward.
verb
adj
- easily frightened
- cowardly or treacherous
- changed to a yellowish color by age
- affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
- typical of tabloids
- of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
- (informal) Lacking courage.
- Of a yellow hue.
- (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
- (UK politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
- (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.
noun
- yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.
- (US) The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
- (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)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
- (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
- (sports) A yellow card.