Blue

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a blue hue.

   “the deep blue sea”

2. sıfat Depressed, melancholic, sad.

   ““Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]””

3. sıfat Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.

   “My hands were blue with cold.”

4. sıfat Pale, without redness or glare.

   “The candle burns blue.”

5. sıfat Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.

   “I live in a blue constituency.  Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.”

6. sıfat Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.

   “Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout”

7. sıfat Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
8. sıfat Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
9. sıfat Having a colour charge of blue.
10. sıfat Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
11. sıfat Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
12. sıfat Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.

    “blue and sour religionists;  blue laws”

13. sıfat Literary; scholarly; bluestockinged.

    “Some of the ladies were very blue and well informed, reading Mrs. Somerville and frequenting the Royal Institution; others were severe and Evangelical, and held by Exeter Hall.”

14. sıfat Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.

    “His material is too blue for prime time.”

15. sıfat Drunk.

    “My wine I drank and oft got blue / On brandy, gin and whisky too— / Until my reputation gay, / Along with care, was cast away —”

16. isim The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.

    “She watches the yachts in the creamy evening blues.”

17. isim Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.

    “I don't like red Smarties. Have you got a blue?”

18. isim A blue dye or pigment.
19. isim Blue clothing.

    “The boys in blue marched to the pipers.”

20. isim A blue uniform. See blues.
21. isim A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.

    “Come on, you blues!”

22. isim 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.

    “He was safe! Terrible call, blue!”

23. isim 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.

    “He excelled at rowing and received a blue in the sport at Oxford.”

24. isim A person who has received such sporting colours.

    “He was a rugby blue at Cambridge.”

25. isim A member of law enforcement.

    “He dialed Kathy to be sure she was okay and see if the blues arrived. She was crying when she picked up the phone. “Kathy, honey, I'm here. It'll be okay. Are the police there?””

26. isim A bluestocking.
27. isim The sky, literally or figuratively.

    “The balloon floated up into the blue.”

28. isim The ocean; deep waters.
29. isim The far distance; a remote or distant place.

    “The problem with buffalo as well as most African antelopes as a steady diet is that they have very little marbling or body fat and, after six months out in the blue, one dreams at night of a T-bone steak sizzling in great globules of yellow fat.”

30. isim A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.

    “On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.”