(n.) A perennial, cruciferous plant (Cheiranthus Cheiri), with sweet-scented flowers varying in color from yellow to orange and deep red. In Europe it very common on old walls.
(n.) A lady at a ball, who, either from choice, or because not asked to dance, remains a spectator.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trierweiler always claimed that she would not become a presidential "wallflower" .
(2) Lionsgate, meanwhile, has been at pains to flag up its equal rights credentials, issuing a statement describing the studio as "proud longtime supporters of the LGBT community, champions of films ranging from Gods and Monsters to The Perks of Being a Wallflower and a company that is proud to have recognised same-sex unions and domestic partnerships within its employee benefits policies for many years".
(3) An internship is your chance to show an employer what you're made of, so it's not the time to be a wallflower, says Natasha Pearlman, deputy editor of Elle.
(4) Miller, star of We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, said: "I can't feel the tips of my fingers or toes but my head and heart are filled with a newfound determination.
(5) At the world's mega-art blowouts, it's only the pictures that end up as wallflowers.
(6) Going up Orlebar Brown swimshorts The new Miami collection is dazzling: retro Americana prints for the bold, spicy graphic prints for the hip and gorgeous primary colours for the wallflowers.
(7) Photograph: Instagram Glastonbury is such a special occasion that it even prompted noted wallflower Cara Delevingne to come out of her shell and draw attention to herself in a slightly obnoxious way for once .
(8) That is true as far as it goes, but he is not to be mistaken for a wallflower and during matches he will snap at team-mates who perform below the standard he expects.
(9) You wouldn't expect to be a wallflower and she’s not.” He said Credlin answered the “fallacy” that there are no strong women involved in running the country.
(10) Nepotism in other settings rankles people without much effort – from Jakob “Son of Bob” Dylan and the Wallflowers to the entire cast of Girls to Chelsea Clinton’s NBC News contract (or an episode of MSNBC’s The Cycle with Abby Huntsman and Luke Russert).
(11) "I think she is half wallflower and half freedom fighter."
(12) Things are perhaps harder for aspiring actors than established names – a recent Screen Actors Guild survey suggested many out actors in Hollywood feel they have suffered prejudice, not least when it comes to perceived marketability – but increasing numbers of young performers, such as Russell Tovey, The Perks of Being a Wallflower's Ezra Miller and Glee's Chris Colfer, gamble on being out more or less from the start.
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.