What's the difference between blue and sky?

Blue


Definition:

  • (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.

Sky


Definition:

  • (n.) A cloud.
  • (n.) Hence, a shadow.
  • (n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural.
  • (n.) The wheather; the climate.
  • (v. t.) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen.
  • (v. t.) To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) The detail of all of that will come over the coming months,” Cormann told Sky News.
  • (3) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (4) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
  • (5) "The sky's the limit for these young people," he says.
  • (6) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
  • (7) In desperation, I cancelled my contract with Sky and placed a new order with BT in February.
  • (8) It is trying to position Sky Arts as the country's premier cultural channel as it attempts to demonstrate to politicians and regulators that it can produce programming that was once the preserve of public service broadcasters like the BBC.
  • (9) The foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, told Sky News the British security assessment was based on “all the information available”, some of it “sensitive”.
  • (10) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
  • (11) But, the challenge now is for Sky to hold its nerve.
  • (12) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
  • (13) Dark Sky , for example, is a Kickstarter-funded iOS app that provides weather forecasting depending on your exact location.
  • (14) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
  • (15) Morrison admitted on Sky News on Sunday night that the conversation did take place, but that no deal was made.
  • (16) "In the UK our long-term competition will likely be Sky Go offering Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic on demand," he said.
  • (17) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
  • (18) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.
  • (19) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
  • (20) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.