yellow pages

4 definitions found

yellow pages - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Yellow pages \Yel"low pag`es\, n. pl.
     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.
     [PJC]

yellow pages - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  yellow pages
      n 1: a telephone directory or section of a directory (usually
           printed on yellow paper) where business products and
           services are listed alphabetically by field along with
           classified advertising

yellow pages - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Network Information Service
  NIS
  Yellow Pages
  
     <networking, protocol> (NIS) Sun Microsystems' Yellow Pages
     (yp) client-server protocol for distributing system
     configuration data such as user and host names between
     computers on a network.
  
     Sun licenses the technology to virtually all other Unix
     vendors.
  
     The name "Yellow Pages" is a registered trademark in the
     United Kingdom of British Telecommunications plc for their
     (paper) commercial telephone directory.  Sun changed the name
     of their system to NIS, though all the commands and functions
     still start with "yp", e.g. ypcat, ypmatch, ypwhich.
  
     Unix manual pages: yp(3), ypclnt(3), ypcat(1), ypmatch(1).
  
     (1995-04-08)
  

yellow pages - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "Yellow Pages":
     Baedeker, bibliography, business directory, catalog, checklist,
     city directory, classified directory, directory, finding list,
     guidebook, handbook, handlist, index, itinerary, phone book,
     reference book, road map, roadbook, telephone book,
     telephone directory