blue
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew, blef, from Old Dutch *blāo (compare Dutch blauw), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁u̯os (compare Middle Irish blá 'yellow', Latin flāvus 'id.', Lithuanian blãvas 'blue'). Doublet of blae.
[edit] Pronunciation
- enPR: blo͞o, IPA: /bluː/, SAMPA: /blu:/
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Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -uː
- Homophone: blew
[edit] Adjective
blue (comparative bluer, superlative bluest)
- Having a bluish colour shade.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.
- (US, politics) Supportive of, run by, pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue. (e.g. The Conservatives, the Democrats)
- I live in a blue constituency.
- Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.
- (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- (of a dog) Possessing a coat of fur that is a shade of gray
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blue-colored
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depressed
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pornographic
of or pertaining to US Democratic Party
[edit] Noun
blue (plural blues)
- The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- Bluing.
- Blue clothing
- The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
- plural A blue uniform. See blues.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield.
- His request for leave came out of the blue.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 5 points.
- Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae.
- A bluefish.
- (Australian, colloquial) An argument.
- 2008, Cheryl Jorgensen, The Taint, page 135,
- If they had a blue between themselves, they kept it there, it never flowed out onto the streets to innocent people — like a lot of things that have been happenin′ on the streets today.
- 2009, John Gilfoyle, Remember Cannon Hill, page 102,
- On another occasion, there was a blue between Henry Daniels and Merv Wilson down at the pig sale. I don′t know what it was about, it only lasted a minute or so, but they shook hands when it was over and that was the end of it.
- 2011, Julietta Jameson, Me, Myself and Lord Byron, unnumbered page,
- I was a bit disappointed. Was that it? No abuse like Lord Byron had endured? Not that I was wishing that upon myself. It was just that a blue between my parents, albeit a raging, foul, bile-spitting hate fest, was not exactly Charles Dickens.
- 2008, Cheryl Jorgensen, The Taint, page 135,
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK) a type of firecracker
[edit] Translations
colour
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bluing — see bluing
blue uniform — see blues
sky, literally or figuratively — see sky
bluefish — see bluefish
argument — see argument
liquid added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes
type of firecracker
[edit] External links
Blue (colour) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
[edit] Verb
blue (third-person singular simple present blues, present participle blueing or bluing, simple past and past participle blued)
- (ergative) To make or become blue.
- (transitive) (metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
[edit] Translations
to make blue
to turn blue
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[edit] See also
bluing (steel) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:bluing (steel)- (basic colors) color, colour; black, blue, gray, green, orange, purple, red, white, yellow (Category: en:Colors) [edit]
- (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre (Category: en:Blues) [edit]
- Havasupai
- primary colour
- rainbow
- RGB
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[edit] Adverb
blue
- bluely
blue colour:
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