blue
蓝色的,蓝色,蓝
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Definitions
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- : the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nanometers.
- : bluing.
- : something having a blue color: Place the blue next to the red.
- : a person who wears blue or is a member of a group characterized by some blue symbol: Tomorrow the blues will play the browns.
- : a member of the Union army in the American Civil War or the army itself.Compare gray.
- : bluestocking.
- : blue ribbon.
- : any of several blue-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
- : Printing. blueline.
- : the blue, the sky.the sea.the remote distance: They've vanished into the blue somewhere.
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blu·er, blu·est.
- : of the color of blue: a blue tie.
- : of or relating to the Union army in the American Civil War.
- : discolored by cold, contusion, fear, or vascular collapse.
- : depressed in spirits; dejected; melancholy: She felt blue about not being chosen for the team.
- : holding or offering little hope; dismal; bleak: a blue outlook.
- : characterized by or stemming from rigid morals or religion: statutes that were blue and unrealistic.
- : marked by blasphemy: The air was blue with oaths.
- : grayish-blue.
- : indecent; somewhat obscene; risqué: a blue joke or film.
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blued, blu·ing or blue·ing.
- : to make blue; dye a blue color.
- : to tinge with bluing: Don't blue your clothes till the second rinse.
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blued, blu·ing or blue·ing.
- : to become or turn blue.
Phrases
- blue funk, in a
- blue in the face
- between a rock and a hard place (devil and deep blue sea)
- black and blue
- bolt from the blue
- have the blues
- into thin air (the blue)
- like greased lightning (a blue streak)
- once in a blue moon
- out of a clear blue sky
- talk one's arm off (a blue streak
- until blue in the face)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Among only developed countries, blue states would be in the top five and red states would be in the top 10.
Even in a blue-leaning state like Minnesota, the best Democratic gerrymander likely secures five safe seats while the best Republican one secures six.
Meanwhile, the blue tilt of currently GOP-held Senate seats in Maine and North Carolina is putting Democratic control of the Senate into play for the first time since they lost it in the 2014 midterms.
If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at.
Cosmetically, the watches come in gray, silver, gold, blue, and red metallic finishes.
Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
Yeah, the “Giant man-puppy” that is Gronkowski won't hold a sexual candle to the blue-eyed dreamboat.
GOP leaders refused; they saw that Duke was pulling blue-collar Democrats to the party.
It denotes the person that puts on the badge, puts on the blue uniform, and goes into the streets to put their life at risk.
They looked up into the blue sky as the helicopters flew over in a lost man formation.
In pursuing his alchemical researches, he discovered Prussian blue, and the animal oil which bears his name.
Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!
His nose was hooked and rather large, his eyes were blue, bright as steel, and set a trifle wide.
The most promising of the methods which have been devised are cryoscopy, the methylene-blue test, and the phloridzin test.
He said no more in words, but his little blue eyes had an eloquence that left nothing to mere speech.