Wiktionary
n. 1 A traffic light, between the green light and the red light, indicating that vehicles may proceed with caution. 2 (context idiomatic English) Limited approval or permission to proceed.
WordNet
n. the signal to proceed with caution
Usage examples of "yellow light".
Eventually they have the balloon train's cargo laid out on the grass in the puddle of yellow light from the lamp, and the heathens are proudly unwrapping them to display their contents.
The door opened and a stream of yellow light fell across the snow.
The gloom in the kitchen of their California house was relieved only slightly by a soft butterscotch-yellow light seeping across the threshold of the open door to the dining room, and even less by the illuminated clock set into the belly of a smiling ceramic pig that hung on the wall to the right of the sink.
There was nothing but brilliant yellow light in the viewports now.
Gwen stood in a small pool of yellow light studying the intricate machinery.
When the light changed, Rebecca bounded forward, ignoring the horn of a low-slung, red car that was running the end of the yellow light.
The strong yellow light outlined the edges of the thronelike chair very nicely.
She twisted herself free, frightened by the strange room, the unfamiliar pictures on the wall, the heavy curtains which only let a tiny bit of light into the room, yellow light with dust bouncing in it.
And on the Discworld the magic was embarrassingly strong,which meant that the soft yellow light of dawn flowed over the sleepinglandscape like the caress of a gentle lover or, as some would have it, like golden syrup.
And on the Discworld the magic was embarrassingly strong, which meant that the soft yellow light of dawn flowed over the sleeping landscape like the caress of a gentle lover or, as some would have it, like golden syrup.
Twenty yards ahead he overtook them, as they were on the point of passing a picture dealer's window, from which yellow light streamed forth into the humid dusk.
In her room, she lay in the semidarkness that came when the full moon shone through her window, its orange-yellow light glinting from a row of religious plaques that lined one wall.
Suddenly the blackness crumbled in an eruption of yellow light, blew away like flakes of soot.
An eerie yellow light flashed on and off, picking up the roundness of tiny beads of perspiration on the woman’.