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year 2000 compliant

having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug.

year 2000 problem year 2000 bug

an error in the coding of certain computer programs in which the year portion of dates was represented by only two decimal digits, assuming that the first two digits are /19/. In such a program the the year 1975 is represented as /75/. This was a common practise in computer programming even into the 1990's, as many programmers failed to consider that their programs would be used after the year 1999. Thus, with such a program, a person born in 2000 would be considered as 101 years old in 2001; many different serious problems, as various as the programs, could be caused by such an error.

year-end

taking place at the close of a fiscal year.

year-old

having reached an age as specified; as, a two-year-old toddler.

year-round

operating or continuing throughout the year; as, a year-round resort; a year-round job. Antonym of seasonal.

Yeara

The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.

Yearbook

A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.

Yeared

Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged.

Yearly

Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed.

Yearn

To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.

yearning

full of longing or unfulfilled desire.

Yearnings

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk.

Yeast-bitten

A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reentered the body of the beer.

Yeastiness

The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.

Yeasty

Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.

Yedding

The song of a minstrel; hence, any song.

Yell

A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.

yelling

The uttering of one or more loud inarticulate cries, as of pain or excitement.

Yellow

To become yellow or yellower.

Yellow pages

a telephone book or part of a book in which the telephone numbers and often advertisements of business enterprises are listed in numerous sections, organized by the category of the business, the categories themselves being arranged alphabetically; a classified telephone directory. So called because for many years the listing thus organized was printed on yellow paper, to distinguish it from the white pages containing the names of individuals, listed alphabetically by last name. The yellow pages are usually bound together with the white pages in the telephone book distributed by the telephone company to its subscribers. The name was adopted by companies not affiliated with the telephone company, for the classified business directories that they sell.

yellow-brown

Having a color intermediate between yellow and brown.

Yellowbird

The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch. The common yellow warbler; -- called also summer yellowbird. See Illust. of Yellow warbler, under Yellow, a.

Yellowfish

A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.

Yellowhammer

A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark. The flicker.

Yellowing

The act or process of making yellow.

Yellowish

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

Yellowlegs

Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.

Yellowness

The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.

Yellowroot

Any one of several plants with yellow roots. See Xanthorhiza. Same as Orangeroot.

Yellows

A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.

Yellowseed

A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre).

Yellowtail

Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (Seriola dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon. The mademoiselle, or silver perch. The menhaden. The runner, 12. A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus). The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides).

Yellowthroat

Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas), which is a very common species.

Yellowtop

A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.

Yellowwood

The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.

Yellowwort

A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.

Yelp

A sharp, quick cry; a bark.

Yelper

An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise. The avocet; -- so called from its sharp, shrill cry. The tattler.

Yelting

The Florida and West Indian red snapper (Lutianus aya); also, sometimes, one of certain other allied species, as Lutianus caxis.

Yemeni

Of or pertaining to Yemen; as, Yemeni mountains.

Yen

The unit of value and account in Japan. The yen is equal to 100 sen. From Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, to about 1913 the value of the yen was about 50 cents. In 1997 and 1998 the value of the yen varied from 80 per U. S. dollar to 120 per dollar.

Yend

To throw; to cast.

Yenite

A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals; -- also called ilvaite.

Yeomanlike

Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly.

Yeomanly

Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike.

Yeomanry

The position or rank of a yeoman.

Yer

Ere; before.

Yerd

See 1st 2d Yard.

Yerk

A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.

Yern

Eager; brisk; quick; active.

Yerne

Eagerly; briskly; quickly.

Yernut

An earthnut, or groundnut. See Groundnut (d).

Yes

Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.

Yester

Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday.

Yesterday

On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.

Yestern

Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past.

Yesternoon

The noon of yesterday; the noon last past.

Yestreen

Yester-evening; yesternight; last night.

Yet

Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however.

Yew

Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.

Yewen

Made of yew; as, yewen bows.

Yezdegerdian

Of or pertaining to Yezdegerd, the last Sassanian monarch of Persia, who was overthrown by the Muslims; as, the Yezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of June, a. d. 632. The era is still used by the Parsees.

Yfere

Together. See Ifere.

Ygdrasyl

See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Yid

A Jew; -- now (1998) usually considered offensive or contemptuous.

Yiddish

A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence. It is written in Hebrew characters.

Yield

Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.

Yieldance

The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth.

Yielding

Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper.

Yin

one of the two fundamental principles. See yin and yang.

yin and yang

the two fundamental principles, one negative, dark, passive, cold, wet, and feminine (yin) and the other (yang) positive, bright, active, dry, hot and masculine. The interactions and balance of these forces in people and nature influence their behavior and fate.

Yite

The European yellow-hammer.

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