(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.
Safranine
Definition:
(n.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stage IV cells contain only safranin-positive granules.
(2) In 13- and 15-day embryos, mast cells showed a pale metachromasia with toluidine blue, and stained blue with Alcian Blue-Safranin O (AB-S).
(3) At 30 and 60 days, an S-100 positive band of cells separated a deep safranin-O positive hypertrophic layer from a fibrocellular surface layer.
(4) The increase of cAMP level also affected the maturation of mast cells, as the ratio of cells of mixed granulation increased, compared to the alcian blue- and safranin-present model inhibited degranulation.
(5) Astra blue (AB) safranine stained highly significantly more mast cells than did toluidine blue.
(6) There was a profound loss of safranin-O stainability in the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and cartilagenous endplate.
(7) Other staining techniques assessed were the modified Ziehl-Neelsen, safranin-methylene blue and auramine-phenol fluorescence.
(8) A zone of safranin O depletion was present in the ventral anulus fibrosus adjacent to the nucleus pulposus in all treated discs, indicating proteoglycan loss.
(9) The distribution and localization of S-100 protein was compared with safranin-O staining and H and E morphology in relatively unaffected, degenerative, and osteophytic regions of human articular cartilage from 26 joints obtained at the time of total joint replacement for osteoarthritis.
(10) Both safranin O and Giemsa were suitable nonfluorescent staining techniques; lomofungin was not.
(11) After 8-12 weeks, however, many subserosal mast cells became positive for berberine sulfate and safranin.
(12) Defects in treated joints contained Safranin O staining material that was histologically similar to a disorganized hyaline cartilage.
(13) Intestinal MC stained with the same dyes as oral MC except for 0.005% toluidine blue, berberine sulfate, and safranin.
(14) A new microspectrophotometric method was developed for quantitation of glycosaminoglycans with Safranin O dye in articular cartilage matrix.
(15) It is concluded that the use of safranine to monitor the changes in membrane potential during Ca2+ transport by mitochondria should be avoided or special care be taken.
(16) The selectivity of myoepithelial cell staining is enhanced by oxidation of sections, nuclear staining by Safranin-O, and differentiation with Tartrazine.
(17) Ferric ion-ferrocyanide staining and safranin-0-counterstaining of neocortical tissue from cats with GM1 gangliosidosis have established that pyramidal neuron meganeurites occur proximal to axonal initial segments and that they are distinct from axonal spheroids.
(18) Cytochrome oxidase reconstituted vesicles, supplemented with ascorbate and cytochrome c. induce large spectral changes of the positive dye safranine, reversed by uncouplers and inhibitors of respiration.
(19) Histologic specimens of the articular cartilage were stained with Safranin-O to assess proteoglycans-enhanced chrondrocyte function, and the synovium was stained with pentachrome.
(20) Synaptosomes were severely energy-deprived, because anaerobic glycolysis was inhibited by 90% from the aerobic level and mitochondrial membrane potential dropped below the limit that could be detected by the safranine method.