YELLOW LIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow light mean? 

• YELLOW LIGHT (noun)
  The noun YELLOW LIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the signal to proceed with caution

  Familiarity information: YELLOW LIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOW LIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The signal to proceed with caution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("yellow light" is a kind of...):

stoplight; traffic light; traffic signal (a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections)

 Context examples 

His little fan of yellow light shone upon a low window.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars will want you to forge forward, and Saturn will blink a yellow light and impede you from rushing ahead.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The woman was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and beautiful face.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The windows of the room had before been darkened, and I felt a kind of panic on seeing the pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As he stepped into the circle of yellow light thrown by the lantern she saw that he was a person of gentlemanly bearing, dressed in a grey suit of tweeds, with a cloth cap. He wore gaiters, and carried a heavy stick with a knob to it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the hand which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of a mid-London morning, lying half shut on the bedclothes, was lean, corded, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)