What's the difference between mellow and yellow?

Mellow


Definition:

  • (superl.) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
  • (superl.) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil.
  • (superl.) Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
  • (superl.) Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
  • (superl.) Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.
  • (v. t.) To make mellow.
  • (v. i.) To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, these somewhat mellow headlines mask a year of considerable underlying progress for Mr Clarke and Tesco to our minds.
  • (2) My wife is ex-Workers Revolutionary Party, so let’s not go there – she’s mellowed a bit down the years!” Whelan was a bright boy who passed the 11-plus and went to grammar school: the Oratory, where Tony Blair sent his children.
  • (3) I think after those 60 seconds of mellow, we're safely back in Manic mode now.
  • (4) I hope that with this court ruling China will start to mellow and south-east Asian countries won’t have to live in fear of them anymore.
  • (5) Add the broth to the pot and briskly simmer the mixture over medium to medium-low heat for about 2 hours for all the flavours to come together and mellow.
  • (6) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
  • (7) In the film , we meet a considerably mellower grade of psychopath.
  • (8) We have obtained expression of the beta-N-acetylglucosamine-binding receptor from chicken hepatocytes in Xenopus oocytes by injecting mRNA synthesized in vitro from a full length cDNA cloned into an expression vector (Mellow et al: J. Biol Chem 263: 5468-5473, 1988).
  • (9) You don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't see life in a more glowing way.
  • (10) The 34-year-old CSKA Moscow midfielder may have mellowed off the pitch but on it his will to win remains as strong as ever, as England can expect to discover when the teams meet in Marseille on Saturday night.
  • (11) The track I’d play at sunset in Ibiza Medina: You And I I always drop this song when I want to mellow out the crowd yet still have them engaged in the melody, as the lyrics are so simple yet effective.
  • (12) Mellow Birds The British brand brought instant coffee to a tea-drinking nation in the 1970s.
  • (13) Either mellow or frenetic masking music was played for half the students in each group.
  • (14) He's a man of mellowness, not ego – far from bitter at the lack of meaty roles, just gently getting on with what he's offered.
  • (15) Whether these hard times will mellow his external ambitions or fuel further revanchist adventurism is now a key question.
  • (16) Attitudes toward him have mellowed to the point that well-known Vietnam draft dodger Bill Clinton, in reviewing Caro's latest volume in the New York Times , could write that he found plenty to admire in LBJ and never hated him the way that many of his generation did.
  • (17) At times he talks with a soft, cooing seduction, mellow in voice and avuncular in manner.
  • (18) By turn mellow and electrifying, it channels funk's rawness and the warmth of house music into what at first glance appears to be pop, but is actually much more fluid.
  • (19) "I'm like, fine, take it, let's get it over with," he remembers, his mellow, late-night radio voice at odds with his imposing physique.
  • (20) And finally we had an appearance by the eminent Lord Grabiner QC on behalf of the Liverpool board, who eased to his feet and held forth in a voice that was smooth, mellow, unhurried and as finely textured as particularly well-aged pipe tobacco.

Yellow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.
  • (superl.) Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.
  • (n.) A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green.
  • (n.) A yellow pigment.
  • (v. i.) To become yellow or yellower.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
  • (2) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
  • (3) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (4) This paper analyzes the nucleotide sequences of three viruses: Kunjin, west Nile, and yellow fever.
  • (5) The bacterial-binding activity and mammalian receptor-binding activities in each of two samples co-chromatographed on a Remazol yellow GGL-Sepharose affinity column strongly indicated that the same immunoglobulin species reacts with both antigens.
  • (6) Fifty physiologically characterized units were injected with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or Lucifer yellow CH (LY) and their processes were traced to the crista.
  • (7) ELISA, cDNA dot blot hybridization and transmission by vector aphids were used to investigate the occurrence and degree of cross-protection produced in oat plants by virus isolates representing five strains or serotypes of barley yellow dwarf virus, namely PAV, MAV, SGV, RPV and RMV.
  • (8) The potential use of Lucifer Yellow exchange inhibition as a test for the screening of tumor promoters is discussed.
  • (9) The mechanisms that protect female viable yellow mice from hyperglycemia are not known.
  • (10) Yellow lupin nodule specific sequences were selected by screening of cDNA library prepared from lupin nodule poly(A)+RNA.
  • (11) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
  • (12) Physiologically identified giant fibers were filled intracellularly with Lucifer Yellow.
  • (13) The spectra were obtained with a variety of excitation wavelengths, spanning the UV, violet, and yellow-green regions of the absorption spectrum, and at temperatures of 30 and 200 K. The RR data indicate that the structures of the bacteriochlorin pigments in RCs from Rb.
  • (14) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
  • (15) N-Methylformamide extracts of acid-treated precipitated VFe protein of the V-nitrogenase of Azotobacter chroococcum are yellow-brown in colour and contain vanadium, iron and acid-labile sulphur in the approximate proportions 1:6:5.
  • (16) A bloody nasogastric aspirate is believed to imply active upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding, while a nonbloody yellow-green nasogastric aspirate that contains duodenal secretions suggests the absence of bleeding proximal to the ligament of Treitz.
  • (17) The JT one was soft from what I saw and it was a yellow card.
  • (18) Mutant plants are characterized by reduced height, defective yellow striping on leaves, and aborted kernels on ears.
  • (19) Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
  • (20) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.