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blue

/bluː/

noun29

  1. the color of the sky on a bright, sunny day, or of the deep sea
  2. The sky, literally or figuratively.
  3. Blue clothing.
  4. [in the plural] A blue uniform. See blues.
  5. Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
  6. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
  7. A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
  8. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
  9. (UK) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
  10. A blue cheese.
  11. A blue dye or pigment.
  12. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
  13. Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
  14. A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.
  15. A person who has received such sporting colours.
  16. The ocean; deep waters.
  17. Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
  18. (Australia, informal) An argument or brawl.
  19. (slang) Risqué or pornographic material.
  20. A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
  21. Synonym of British Blue (“a breed of cat”).
  22. The far distance; a remote or distant place.
  23. (slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
  24. One of the three colour charges for quarks.
  25. A bluefish.
  26. (historical) A member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969)
  27. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
  28. (historical) A bluestocking.
  29. (UK) A type of firecracker.

adjective16

  1. Of a blue hue.
  2. Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
  3. Pale, without redness or glare.
  4. Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
  5. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
  6. Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
  7. (US) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
  8. (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
  9. Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
  10. (UK) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
  11. Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  12. Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
  13. Having a colour charge of blue.
  14. (slang, old-fashioned) Drunk.
  15. (no longer used) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
  16. (no longer used) Literary; scholarly; bluestockinged.

verb5

  1. To make or become blue; to turn blue.
  2. To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
  3. (slang, old-fashioned) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
  4. To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
  5. (Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
forms

blued · blueing · bluing · blues · Blues · bluer · more blue · bluest · most blue

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