(superl.) Having the color 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.
(superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.
(superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
(superl.) Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
(superl.) Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.
(superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
(2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(3) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(4) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
(5) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(6) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(7) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
(8) After methylene blue, the gradient in resting potential across the circular layer was greatly reduced or abolished.
(9) Furthermore, Methylene Blue contamination of the standard stain increased the rate of error in image analysis of white blood cell nuclei due to variations of staining intensity.
(10) The purpose was to show whether or not the methylene-blue test can be postponed to the second day.
(11) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
(12) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
(13) The amount of formazan obtained after incubating vital cells with Meldola Blue as electron carrier was greater than that obtained with Methylene Blue, menadione, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, 1-methoxyphenazine methosulphate or phenazine methosulphate.
(14) India will have three carriers and both China and India are building blue-water [ocean-going] navies.
(15) On dissected mucosa stained by the PAS-alcian blue whole-mount method the density and distribution of goblet cells in various parts of the middle ear was determined in 13 children, ranging in age from 9 days to 14 years.
(16) The results showed immunostaining to function equally well on frozen and routine sections, and to be superior to Alcian Blue and PAS with regard to morphological detail.
(17) The working women lost their elasticity more rapidly than the nuns, and the male blue collar workers lost their elasticity more rapidly than the male white collar workers.
(18) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
(19) Microotoscopy showed a blue pulsating mass behind the tympanic membrane.
(20) One day, out of the blue, there's a knock on the door.
Bluing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blue
(n.) The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.
(n.) Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, RBCs from bluetongue (BLU) virus-infected sheep were adsorbed directly onto Formvar-coated, gold electron microscope grids.
(2) The David Lynch limited-edition box set is available on Blu-ray and DVD from 4 June, courtesy of Universal Pictures
(3) The dominant and recessive natures of the resistant (blu(r)) and susceptible (blu(s)) alleles were determined by the sex of the parent.
(4) The revelation was contained in comments McKellen made on the extended edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, recently released on DVD and Blu-Ray.
(5) The pilot for the plan is The Dark Knight , Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman blockbuster – currently No 7 on the list of all-time box-office grossers, and holder of several sales records for DVD and Blu-Ray.
(6) Release of histamine occurred at tick feeding sites, but vasoactive effects were blocked by mepyramine treatment as evidenced by a lack of increased vascular permeability (bluing) at these sites compared with non-tick-infested tissues, or to cutaneous basophil hypersensitivity (CBH) sites of animals not protected with mepyramine.
(7) The first survey showed that BLU group antibody in cattle 18-24 months old was confined to the coastal regions (east of the Great Dividing Range) and the Hunter Valley.
(8) In addition to the standard CD, vinyl and digital versions, there will be a deluxe edition, with three bonus tracks, and a special Japanese Blu-Spec , with four extra songs.
(9) A report released last week by the BFI indicated that, while actual sales are falling, DVDs and Blu-ray remain the film industry's largest single revenue source, bringing in £1.3bn a year.
(10) An extended version of The Class Of '92 will be released on Blu-ray in early June
(11) If somebody’s taken the bother to email – they’ve gone off YouTube to our website, found the contact page and written an email – they deserve to get something back.” Children’s videos are huge on YouTube, with six of its top 10 channels in January aimed at kids: toy-unboxing channels Funtoys Collector and Blu Toys ; Minecraft gamer Stampy ; Little Baby Bum; and two Russian animation channels, Masha and the Bear and GetMovies .
(12) Like the native purple membrane, the blu membrane showed proton pumping activity upon illumination in phospholipid vesicles.
(13) If the antigenic BLU virus particles (which may be viral cores) are in fact infectious, this method of sequestration of virus within RBCs could contribute to the prolonged viremia typical of this arboviral disease, which is known to occur concurrently with circulating neutralizing antibody.
(14) Announced at last on Blu Ray by Network, it was Linda Fiorentino's finest hour and should have left Basic Instinct where it belonged, sucking dust.
(15) Fun Toyz Collector is the biggest channel of all on YouTube with 427m views in February alone , with peers It’s Baby Big Mouth and Blu Toys notching up 228m and 205m views respectively that month.
(16) Mali hotel attack – in pictures Read more Two gunmen with Kalashnikov assault rifles and explosives ran into the Radisson Blu hotel before 7am last Friday, striking just as security guards were about to change shifts.
(17) A close association was observed between strong group antibody reactions and type-specific neutralizing activity against BLU-1 and BLU-21.
(18) It is like Blu-Tack, but it sets," said Ni Dhulchaointigh.
(19) Subsequent steps are: washing; bluing in ammonia water for 1 minutes; washing again and staining in 1% eosin Y alcoholic solution for 5 minutes; rinsing in 100% ethanol; drying and mounting with Permont.
(20) The last two mentioned clones showed to be good group-specific probes for the identification of BLU samples from Israel and United States.