What's the difference between sallow and yellow?

Sallow


Definition:

  • (n.) The willow; willow twigs.
  • (n.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.
  • (superl.) Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
  • (v. t.) To tinge with sallowness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
  • (2) In her autobiography she writes, “Oh, the moment of complete triumph on the day that I kept my balance and came right into shore standing upright on my board!” Just as Fowles claimed to have found his inspiration for Sarah Woodruff in a dream of a strange, sallow-faced woman staring out to sea, so, too, I imagined a woman riding proudly on to Devon’s shores, standing upright on a board.
  • (3) 28.70% had typical facial looks of anaemia and sallow complexion.
  • (4) Clinical changes included decreases in surface roughness, irregular pigmentation, fine and coarse wrinkling, and sallowness.
  • (5) By counting the spores of protozoon Nosema apis Z. in Bürker's chamber the author was able to find, in 1495 caged bees sacrificed one week after the parasite invasion, from altogether 26 samples of various feeds statistically sifnificant differences of influencing the protozoon development only in sallow pollen.
  • (6) Clinically, patients experience decreased wrinkling, improved texture, and pinkening of sallow skin.
  • (7) Many disused railways have been turned into green footpaths, but this had been abandoned and enveloped in hawthorn, sallow and elder, with the occasional fly-tipped fridge thrown from a bridge.
  • (8) The forlorn expression and the sallow complexion, I'm sorry to say, are the model's own.
  • (9) Come, friendly caterpillars Inspired by the landscaping of Milton Keynes (which was conceived as a forest city), I’ve just planted 150 shoots of sallow in my garden.
  • (10) When compared with vehicle, treatment with isotretinoin resulted in statistically significant improvement in overall appearance, fine wrinkling, discrete pigmentation, sallowness, and texture.
  • (11) Young off-duty local waiters for the most part, sallow and saturnine or handsomely jowly, smoking furiously between sets in the high cold frozen sun before they diligently remount the high cold frozen metal stairs past a flutter of busy-bee BBC continuity wizards: loop-fed multilingual script editors with one eye and one ear on the monitor, one ear clamped to a headphone, chill mittened fingers rewinding pages, an impossible third ear half-tuned to shouted stage directions.
  • (12) Unlike the dapper Derrida, Žižek is a sight for sore eyes: pale to the point of sallow, bearded, overweight and effortlessly eccentric.
  • (13) Labour MPs looked sallow, in expectation of defeat.
  • (14) 75% of patients had increased specific IgE-titres against these pollens whereas maple, poplar, elm, sallow and ash allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.
  • (15) Her face is sallow; there are shadows under her eyes.
  • (16) Examination of 1260 bees 14 days after the invasion demonstrated that, as compared with glycide food, the parasite development was enhanced by a feed consisting of 6, 9, and 12 per cent fresh rape pollen, 3 and 6 per cent of fresh and dried sallow pollen, 6 per cent freeze-dried pollen mixture, pollen deposited in honeycombs, 7.5, 10, and 12.5 per cent yeast dough, "Arnika" and 3 per cent Bacto peptone.
  • (17) Patulin was found in fruit with spontaneous brown rot (bananas, pineapples, grapes, peaches, apricots) as well as in moldy compots and in sallow-thorn juice.
  • (18) Chronic renal failure, regardless of its cause, often produces xerosis, pruritus, sallow hyperpigmentation, and nail changes.
  • (19) I was a shallow, sallow, thoroughly unwell shithead with delusions of grandeur, but it was all I knew how to be.
  • (20) Positive reactions, often of high intensity, were most often found with birch, alder, bog-myrtle, beech and hazel allergens whereas oak, aspen, linden, elm, sallow, maple and poplar allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.

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.