(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.
Dungaree
Definition:
(n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of young men and women calling themselves the Salopards (Bastards) and wearing pink dungarees "to show you can be against gay marriage without being homophobic", was also there to "defend the family".
(2) "But I think he's on quite a learning curve, actually, because he said, 'You know, when she first came here, I thought she was going to be dressed in dungarees and have her hair cut short, and things like that.'
(3) A small tousled boy, wearing dungarees, white-skinned, picked it up.
(4) Britain's leading young feminist is no Andrea Dworkin sloganist, dramatising defiance via dungarees, nor a gladiatorial Germaine Greer show-off, nor another glossy Naomi Wolf .
(5) We don't own a pair of dungarees between us and although we did try to put up a shelf once, it wasn't a success.
(6) There was this great scene where a new inmate arrived and was quite stoical, but it turned out she was sharing a cell with this brilliantly dungareed lesbian, who starts copping a feel.
(7) His owners – a dribble of bohemian frizz and batik dungarees – have bitten off more than they can chew and are already looking for permission to put him down.
(8) Dungarees, moustache, all men are rapists, you know the drill...
(9) In fact, she quickly got pregnant and eschewed traditional maternity wear for voluminous trousers, braces and dungarees.
(10) A quintet of girls pitching their tents wearing cropped denim dungarees over Breton striped tops and Ray Bans were respectful to the Chung template.
(11) Others are less impressed, particularly following the V&A's 2007 exhibition dedicated to Kylie Minogue, which included her dungarees from the Australian soap Neighbours .
(12) If you were a woman, you were not, although you might be sent to features to report on dog fashion shows or dungarees.
(13) That charisma is why so many Brits fell in love with her as the dungaree-clad car mechanic Charlene in Australian soap Neighbours.
(14) You will not find either of us in dungarees putting up a shelf.
(15) I remain a respectful admirer of all he did for the male dungaree wearer.
(16) The Red Cross has brought a mobile field kitchen where men stir a vast vat of cabbage with a paddle, and there is a dusty warehouse piled high with donated clothes, from children's dungarees to white leather high-heeled boots.