Grue

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.

   “["]I would have done Mr. Mordaunt's bidding too," he added, relaxing from his note of defiance, into the deferential whining tone with which he cajoled his customers, "if he hadna made use of profane oaths which made my very flesh grue, and caused me, in some sort, to forget myself."”

2. isim A shiver, a shudder.

   “Upon all others the sight of Alison, were it but for a moment, cast a cold grue, not to be remembered without terror.”

3. isim Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.

   “The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work”

4. isim A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.

   “I managed to get into the house through the front once, but I was plunged into darkness and eaten by a monster called a grue.”

5. sıfat Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.

   “The grue property is defined as: x is grue if and only if x is green and is observed before the year 2000, or x is blue and is not observed before the year 2000.”

6. sıfat Of a single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that did not always distinguish between green and blue.
7. isim The property of being green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.

   “[T]he color grue would change in color. Colors do not do this; so ‘grue’ cannot be a color term.”

8. isim A single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that did not always distinguish between green and blue.

   “Grue is the last of the composite categories that languages lose; hence its frequency. The transition to Stage V, where all basic color categories are primary, occurs when grue is replaced by its component primaries blue and green.”

9. isim Nutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons.
10. özel isim A municipality of Innlandet, Norway, formerly part of the county of Hedmark.