Blue Definition

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Translations 1.4.2 External links 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Translations 1.6 Related terms 1.7 See also 1.8 Anagrams 2 Esperanto 2.1 Adverb 2.1.1 Related terms

English

Wikipedia has articles on: Blue Various shades of blue. A man with blue clothes. The ocean and the sky. Two people, and a snooker table with three balls on it: a brown, a white and a blue. A Jämthund, which is a dog with gray fur. The front cover of a blue (pornographic) film. The logo of the US Democratic Party, which consists of a light blue D inside a darker blue circle. A bluefish.

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: blo͞o, IPA: /bluː/, SAMPA: /blu:/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: blew

Adjective

blue (comparative bluer, superlative bluest)

1. Having a bluish colour shade.
2. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
3. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.
4. (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.

5. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
6. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
7. (of a dog) Possessing a coat of fur that is a shade of gray

Noun

blue (plural blues)

1. 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.
2. A blue dye or pigment.
3. Bluing.
4. Blue clothing

   The boys in blue marched to the pipers.

5. plural A blue uniform. See blues.
6. 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.

7. The ocean; deep waters.
8. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
9. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 5 points.
10. Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae.
11. A bluefish.
12. (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.

13. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
14. (UK) a type of firecracker

Translations

colour

Afrikaans: blou Albanian: kaltërt Armenian: կապույտ (hy) (kapuyt) Basque: urdin (eu) Bosnian: plava (bs) f. Breton: glas Bulgarian: синьо (bg) Catalan: blau m. Chinese: 蓝色 (lánsè) Croatian: plava (hr) f. Czech: modř (cs) f. Danish: blå (da) Dutch: blauw (nl) n. Esperanto: blu (eo) Estonian: sinine (et) Finnish: sininen (fi) French: bleu (fr) m. Georgian: ლურჯი (ka) German: Blau (de) n. Greek: γαλάζιο (ghalázio), γαλανό (ghalanó), μπλε (ble), κυανό (kianó), γλαυκό (ghlafkó) Hawaiian: polū Hebrew: כחול (he) (kakhól) Hindi: नीला (hi) (nīlā) m. Hungarian: kék (hu) Icelandic: blár (is) Indonesian: biru (id) Irish: gorm (ga) Italian: (dark blue) blu m.; (sky blue) azzurro m. Japanese: 青 (あお, ao) Korean: 파랑 (parang), 파란색 (paransæk) Kurdish: Sorani: شین (ku) (sheen) Latin: caeruleus (la)

Latvian: zils (lv) Lojban: blanu Luxembourgish: Blo (lb) f. Macedonian: сина (sina) Malay: biru (ms) Malayalam: നീല (neela) Maltese: blu; (sky blue) ikħal; (azure) iżraq Navajo: dootłʼizh Norwegian: blåfarge (no) O'odham: anilhmagi Persian: آبی (fa) (ābi) Polish: niebieski m., błękit (sky blue) m. Portuguese: azul (pt) m. Romanian: albastru (ro) Russian: синий (sínij, navy blue), голубой (golubój, sky blue) Scottish Gaelic: gorm Serbian: Cyrillic: плава (sr) f. Roman: plava (sr) f. Slovak: modrá (e.g., berlínska modrá) Slovene: modra f. Spanish: azul, (light blue) celeste Swahili: bluu (sw) Swedish: blå (sv) Tagalog: asul (tl) Telugu: నీలము (niilamu) Turkish: mavi (tr), gök (tr), kök (tr) Ukrainian: синій (uk) (sinìj) Urdu: نیلا (ur) (nīlā) m. Uyghur: كۆك (ug) Vietnamese: (màu) xanh (blue or green), xanh lam Volapük: blöv (vo), (older term) yulib (vo) Welsh: glas (cy) West Frisian: blau

blue pigment

Finnish: sininen (fi)

bluing — see bluing blue clothing

Finnish: sininen (fi)

blue uniform — see blues sky, literally or figuratively — see sky ocean, deep waters

Finnish: avomeri (fi)

anything blue

Finnish: sininen (fi)

snooker: ball with a value of 5 points

Finnish: sininen (fi)

butterfly of the subfamily Polyommatinae

Finnish: sinisiipi (fi)

bluefish — see bluefish argument — see argument liquid added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes type of firecracker

External links

• Blue (colour) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

blue (third-person singular simple present blues, present participle blueing or bluing, simple past and past participle blued)

1. (ergative) To make or become blue.
2. (transitive) (metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.

Translations

to make blue

Basque: urdindu (eu) Finnish: värjätä siniseksi (fi), värittää sinisellä (fi)/siniseksi French: bleuter (fr) German: bläuen

Portuguese: azular (pt) Spanish: azular (es) Swahili: bluu (sw) Vietnamese: làm (màu) xanh, nhuộm xanh, hồ lơ (laundry)

to turn blue

Finnish: sinistyä (fi), sinertyä (fi) French: bleuir (fr) German: blau werden

Spanish: azular (es) Swahili: bluu (sw)

to passivate steel

Finnish: sinistää (fi) French: bleuter (fr)

Swahili: bluu (sw)

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Bulgarian: потиснат (potisnat) m. (2), депресиран (depresiran) m. (2)

Related terms

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blue spruce blue state blue streak blue vitriol blue water blue whale blue wren blueback blueback salmon bluebeard bluebeat bluebell blueberry bluebill bluebird blue-black blue-blooded bluebonnet bluebottle blue-chip bluecoat blue-collar bluecurls blue-eyed boy blue-eyed grass blue-eyed Mar blue-eyed soul bluefin bluefin tuna bluefish bluegill bluegrass blue-green alga blueing blueish bluejacket bluely blueness bluenose blue-pencil blue-plate bluepoint blueprint blue-ribbon bluerinse blue-rinse blues blueshift blue-sky blue-sky law bluesman bluestem bluestocking bluestone bluesy, bluesier, blusiest bluet blue-tile fever bluetit bluetongue

blue-water blueweed bluey bluing bluish bluishness blut tit bolt from the blue boys in blue Cambridge blue cobalt blue code blue Colorado blue spruce common blue Copenhagen blue cordon bleu cornflower blue cry blue murder Danish blue dark blue duck-egg blue eggshell blue electric-blue genetian blue go blue half-blue ice blue in a blue funk indigo blue iron blue Kerry blue terrier light blue methylene blue midnight blue navy blue Nile blue once in a blue moon out of the blue Oxford blue peacock blue petrol blue powder blue Prussian blue pygmy blue robin’s-egg blue royal blue Russian blue saxe blue Saxon blue scream blue murder sky blue slate blue steel blue Tasmanian blue gum the blues true-blue trypan blue until one is blue in the face Wedgwood blue

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)}
• (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)}
• Havasupai
• primary colour
• rainbow
• RGB

Anagrams

• lube

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Esperanto

Adverb

blue

1. bluely

   blue colour:

Related terms

• blua (“blue”)
• blui (“to be blue”)
• bluo (“the color blue”)

 

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