blue

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So B1 is a blue marble from the first bag, etc.

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Quick take

blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of blue gathered in one view.

noun

blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"

noun

blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"

noun

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for blue.

noun

blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"

noun

blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"

noun

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"

noun

the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue"

noun

used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

noun

the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

noun

any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

verb

turn blue

adjective

of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"

adjective

used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"

adjective

filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

adjective

characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"

adjective

suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"

See also: gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy

adjective

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"

adjective

morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

adjective

causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

Example sentences

So B1 is a blue marble from the first bag, etc.

So, to be clear, the teen Salah Barhoun was the guy in the blue tracksuit who some 4chan'ers thought was the bomber.

If this happens, you say that the infinite bag of reds is larger than the infinite bag of blues.

Suppose you have one bag of blue marbles, and each is marked with some odd number: 1,3,5,7... all the way to infinity.

They dive to depths 25 times deeper than their other equally famous and endangered cousin the blue whales.

"Another comment:"Re the conclusion: to protect yourself, don't run an OS that will silently install software just because you clicked on a blue link in a program published by the OS vendor.

So I found a way to stop the game from loading anything other than level data and I could briefly see a strange silver ramp level with blue skies, but I would fall and die immediately.

When you're renting you're limited to very insignificant and inconsequential things, you can move around your sofas, have red plates instead of blue and get a new desk, but what sort of control is that?

And because of the stupid blue "like" button this article rails against, these hopeful businesses can do that without paying for pointless terribly-performing ads in major newspapers or on radio stations, and can have actual conversations with their customers.

>The Surface is partially for Microsofts world of denial: the world in which this store contains no elephants and Microsoft invented the silver store with the glass front and the glowing logo and blue shirts and white lanyards and these table layouts and the modern tablet and its magnetic power cableHuh what?