What's the difference between yellow and yellowish?

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.

Yellowish


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
  • (2) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
  • (3) In the pancreas of the testosterone treated dogs, the yellowish cytoplasms of the B-cells looked empty, bearing just a few beta-granules (small amount of stored insulin).
  • (4) At autopsy there were scattered purpura on the skin, and the muscles were atrophic and yellowish-grey in color.
  • (5) Ultrasound guided aspiration produced a yellowish fluid rich in proteins and poor in cells.
  • (6) Extirpation of this tumor disclosed yellowish white, homogeneous mass, 101 g in weight and 7 by 7 by 3.5 cm in diameter.
  • (7) Normal delivery traces were observed as large globes, yellowish-brown, covered with yellowish-white of agglomerate cells, while stillbirth traces appeared as middle-sized, orange or yellowish-brown masses.
  • (8) The yellowish green copper complexes of OTCH, CTCH, MCH, and DCH show maximum absorbance at 395, 410, 400, and 400 nm, respectively.
  • (9) A 51-year-old Caucasian man presented with a yellowish lesion containing multiple protuberances over his right cheek.
  • (10) Among individuals with this habit, a thick yellowish-white-to-brown lesion was observed at the site of placement of the mixture.
  • (11) These early atherosclerotic lesions included a localized cloudy thickening with pallor, slight elevation, a non-fibrotic lesion and gray-white or yellowish-white, firm, elevated fibrous plaques.
  • (12) Mulibrey (muscle, liver, brain, eye) nanism is probably an autosomal recessive condition characterized by progressive growth failure of prenatal onset, triangular face with hydrocephaloid skull, general thinness and muscular hypotonicity, peculiar voice, venous congestion caused by pericardial constriction, and pigment dispersion and yellowish dots in ocular fundi.
  • (13) At autopsy a yellowish-white tumor (8 x 6 cm) was found in the left hepatic lobe, and there were several daughter nodules in both hepatic lobes.
  • (14) The characteristic scattered yellowish-white retinal exudates and retinal detachment appeared in both eyes within 2 weeks, and after treatment with intravenous acyclovir and gamma-globulin, and encircling, scleral buckling, pars plana vitrectomy, 100% SF6 tamponade procedures, the retinal detachment was repaired and the yellowish-white retinal exudates disappeared.
  • (15) The implications of these results--that yellowish lacks tryptophan oxygenase, thus failing to convert tryptophan to kynurenine, and that yellow lacks kynurenine hydroxylase (blockade in the conversion of kynurenine to 3-hydroxykynurenine)--have been confirmed.
  • (16) Variation in mycelial pigment was observed ranging from yellowish-green to orange with water soluble red pigment produced in every strain which can be seen early from the reverse side.
  • (17) The patient, a 33 year old male, had suffered from swelling of the chest, neck and face for 4 months; palpitation, chest and epigastrium pain, cough and yellowish sputum for 10 days before admission into our hospital.
  • (18) At autopsy, a well defined yellowish white tumor of 3 cm in maximum diameter was seen in the cirrhotic liver.
  • (19) The cystic cavities contained turbid chocolate-colored fluid or a yellowish creamy substance.
  • (20) A case of localized CrS appearing as a yellowish and crusted plaque on the second right toe is reported in a woman with AIDS.