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Look up: Blue

  1. Blue
    Blue is a township in Pottawatomie County Kansas, USA.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/G3

  2. Blue
    Blue is slang for phenobarbital. Blue is Australian slang for a fight.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/PA

  3. blue
    [adj] - wearing blue 2. [adj] - suggestive of sexual impropriety 3. [adj] - used to signify the Union forces in the Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) 4. [adj] - low in spirits 5. [adj] - tinged with blue or purple from cold or contusion 6. [adj] - characterized by or marked with a bluish color 7. [adj] - having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky 8. [adj] - causing dejection 9. [n] - any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue 10. [n] - the color of the clear sky in the daytime 11. [n] - blue clothing 12. [n] - any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae 13. [v] - turn blue
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Blue
    A language proposed by Softech to meet the DoD Ironman requirements which led to Ada. ["On the BLUE Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):10-15 (Oct 1978)].
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  5. blue
    a linear function of the order statistics available in the sample of information of the variable under analysis for which the variance is minimum and which is also unbiased Category: Mathematics • one or two-sided photographic proof from offset or gravure film; the image colour is blue; also known as blue. Category: Printing and publishing
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Blue
    Blue (blū) adjective [ Compar. Bluer (-ẽr); superl. Bluest .] [ Middle English bla , blo , blew , blue, livid, black, from Icelandic blār livid; akin to Danish blaa blue, Swedish blå , Dutch blauw , Old High German blāo , German blau ; …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/69

  7. Blue
    Blue (blū) noun 1. One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky. 2. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking. [ Colloq.] 3. plural [ Short for b …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/69

  8. Blue
    Blue transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Blued ; present participle & verbal noun Bluing .] To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/69

  9. blue
    1. Having the colour of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." ... 2. Pale, without redness or glare, said of a flame; hence, of the colour of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?b

  10. blue
    bluish 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. blue
    dark 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. blue
    depressed adjective low in spirits; `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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. blue
    gamy 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. blue
    adjective used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); `a ragged blue line`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  15. blue
    blueness noun blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; `he had eyes of bright blue`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  16. blue
    noun any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  17. blue
    noun any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; `the Union army was a vast blue`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  18. blue
    verb turn blue
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  19. Blue
    `Blue` is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440-490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal mixture of red and green light. On a colour wheel based on traditional colour theory (RYB), the complementary colour to blue is considered to be orange...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue

  20. Blue
    `Blue` is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440-490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal mixture of red and green light. On a colour wheel based on traditional colour theory (RYB), the complementary colour to blue is considered to be orange...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue

  21. Blue
    • (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking. • (superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue. • (pl.) Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy. • (v. t.) To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc. • (n.) One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, whe...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  22. blue
    (from the article `quark`) ...were published in 1973, colour has nothing to do with the colours of the everyday world but rather represents a property of quarks that is the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/81

  23. Blue
    (from the article `Architecture`) ...the solid aluminum facades, covered all the surfaces and made the building look as if it were made of gray vapour. Also on New York City`s Lower ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/81

  24. blue
    A color between green and violet on the spectrum. For individual blue dyes, see the specific name. Syn: cerulean
    Found on http://www.stedmans.com/section.cfm/45

  25. blue
    1. the color of the clear sky in the daytime
    2. the sky as viewed during daylight
    3. the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

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9 January 2009

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