"yellow light" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-yellow light.ogg [Australia] Forms: yellow lights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} yellow light (plural yellow lights)
  1. (US) A traffic light, between the green light and the red light, indicating that vehicles should stop if safely possible. Tags: US Categories (topical): Roads Synonyms (traffic light): amber light (english: dated in US; slightly different meaning to traffic in Britain) Translations (traffic light between the green light and the red light): 黃燈 (Chinese Cantonese), 黄灯 (english: wong⁴ dang¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 黃燈 (Chinese Mandarin), 黄灯 (huángdēng) (Chinese Mandarin), keltainen valo (Finnish), feu jaune [masculine] (French), feu orange [masculine] (French), ყვითელი შუქი (q̇viteli šuki) (Georgian), Gelblicht [neuter] (German), sárga fény (Hungarian), 黄信号 (kishingō) (alt: きしんごう) (Japanese), ໄຟເຫຼືອງ (fai lư̄ang) (Lao), жёлтый свет (žóltyj svet) [masculine] (Russian), ၾႆးလိူင် (fái lǒeng) (Shan), ၽႆးလိူင် (phái lǒeng) (Shan), ไฟเหลือง (Thai), sarı ışık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-yellow_light-en-noun-7qsejDZh Disambiguation of Roads: 85 7 8 Categories (other): American English Disambiguation of 'traffic light': 95 2 3 Disambiguation of 'traffic light between the green light and the red light': 95 1 3
  2. (idiomatic) Hesitance to proceed; limited approval or permission to proceed. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-yellow_light-en-noun-PMBQb6yx
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, light.
    Sense id: en-yellow_light-en-noun-basZm4Sm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 19 53 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 33 20 46 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 32 20 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Holonyms: stoplight, stop light (english: = traffic light), traffic light, traffic signal Related terms: 🔴, 🟡, 🟢 Coordinate_terms: green light, red light, stoplight, stop light (english: = red light)

Inflected forms

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        "(idiomatic) Hesitance to proceed; limited approval or permission to proceed."
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      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "黃燈"
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      "code": "yue",
      "english": "wong⁴ dang¹",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "黄灯"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "黃燈"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huángdēng",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "黄灯"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "keltainen valo"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "q̇viteli šuki",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "ყვითელი შუქი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "sárga fény"
    },
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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kishingō",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "黄信号"
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      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "fai lư̄ang",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "ໄຟເຫຼືອງ"
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      "roman": "fái lǒeng",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
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    },
    {
      "code": "shn",
      "lang": "Shan",
      "roman": "phái lǒeng",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "ၽႆးလိူင်"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "ไฟเหลือง"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "traffic light between the green light and the red light",
      "word": "sarı ışık"
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