cornflower

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Editorial note

You wanted that in cornflower blue instead, but now none of your settings are persisted in the backend.

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Quick take

A color, cornflower blue.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A color, cornflower blue.

noun

A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.

adjective

Synonym of cornflower blue, a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cornflower.

noun

A color, cornflower blue.

noun

A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.

adjective

Synonym of cornflower blue, a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower.

noun

A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).

Example sentences

You wanted that in cornflower blue instead, but now none of your settings are persisted in the backend.

No, but your designers have decided instead of cornflower blue, they want it to be aqua instead.

He got sick of people asking him if he could make the buttons cornflower blue.

For instance 'cornflower blue' the default, was a color I was playing with the other day.

For example, a foley artist made the sounds of a polar bear playing in the snow by squishing a rubber glove full of cornflower.

Maybe cornflower blue, or dodger blue, or a light steel blue.

Can't you just make the buttons cornflower blue?

Perhaps if we could get it in cornflower blue...

Could I kill that icon in cornflower blue?

Unfortunately I spend the majority of my development time doing software integration, to achieve the whole synergy thing - for thinking outside of the box with icons in cornflower blue.

Couple that with the ego that comes with being in a profession where some number are responsible for life and death situations and you wind up with a user who truly believes that making the button cornflower blue is the single most important thing to take this thing over the top.

But soon a third flower appeared, the blue cornflower, Bismarck's favorite flower, and the emblem of the German National Party, which -- although not then recognized as such -- was counsciously a revolutionary party, and worked with burtal forcefulness for the destruction of the Austrian monarchy in favour of a Greater Germany under Prussian and Protestant leadership, such as Hitlers dreams of.

Quote examples

I've seen plenty of small startups where the CEO-as-king was taken quite literally ("Change the icons to cornflower blue").

This evoked, for me, the "can I get the icon on cornflower blue" scene in Fight Club.

Then some PHB doing drive-by mgmt decrees "Those buttons should be cornflower blue.

Your computer monitor does not actually emit "a pure cornflower-blue wavelength", it exploits the limits of your vision and emits a mix of 2/3 wavelengths that simply seems the same.