(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.
Patrician
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.
(n.) Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.
(n.) A person of high birth; a nobleman.
(n.) One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet unlike his fellow ex-Bullingdon men and Tory patricians, Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson, Osborne does not make a consistent effort to play down his privilege or make it endearing.
(2) There must have been people who told him he was too patrician, too intelligent, as well as too old to break through in America.
(3) These patrician warnings that Corbyn only serves to drag Labour backwards serve to make me, as a young voter, feel patronised and unwanted.
(4) Most crucial of all, the patrician Tory moderates were diluted and eventually driven from power.
(5) And producers have given up on the [old BBC] patrician thing, the vision thing.
(6) This second population segment lived between the 12th and 18th century and belonged to a lower social class than the patricians from Worb.
(7) But, disliking the patrician RADA accents, she set off for America by walking to Liverpool.
(8) As his friends have been quick to point out, it was an outcome that reflected well on Profumo's patrician sense of duty and decency: few modern politicians would have the courage to follow his example.
(9) --In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Lausanne had to assert its own position between the patrician power of Bern, meanwhile elevated to federal capital, and industrious Geneva.
(10) It would be lazy and unreasonable to brand the 6,200 or so voting Academy members as bigots, yet their choices – and the choices made available to them – are shaped by a largely white, patrician hegemony in Hollywood’s executive suites.
(11) Following a crushing 61 to 20 defeat in the upper house, she will be replaced for the remaining two years and four months of her term by Michel Temer, a centre-right patrician who was among the leaders of the campaign against his former running mate .
(12) That may have been more indicative of a clunky attempt to fuse the supposed cost of living crisis with recent events than any deep thought but still, to a lot of people it will have sounded like a patrician voice, apparently unaware that working-class people think about much more than their own lot and have just as strong feelings about the state and democracy as the residents of upscale neighbourhoods in London.
(13) She recalls one lunch with a literary editor of the Times who "got there and said [she puts on a patrician drawl]: 'I told all the girls in the office I'm going out with a Virago today!'
(14) In Le Carré’s book Burr was a patrician gent in the mould of George Smiley.
(15) There are many reasons why this will no longer wash. Those days of deference to patrician authority are over, and probably for the better.
(16) One critic shrewdly observed that Robinson exemplified the meritocratic arrogance that had replaced the patrician version.
(17) Though both are gaffe-prone, Eurosceptic populists, quietly scornful of Cameron's patrician reserve, Hutchings's fiery brand makes Johnson's sound quite thoughtful.
(18) For Hoggart, humane reading and humane education and humane culture and society should be open to everyone, and he deeply deplored those who saw themselves as privileged, not least the patrician William Rees-Mogg who, as chairman of the Arts Council, took it for granted that his journeys from London to his Somerset home and back should be provided by an Arts Council-funded chauffeur-driven car.
(19) But he enjoys the advantage of incumbency and a patrician-like reputation in Colorado.
(20) Cameron, who cultivates an image of middle class normality, will be horrified at the way the episode links him to a lethal cocktail of urban journalistic cynicism, patrician country pursuits, police corruption and Downing Street evasion.