(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.
Turquoise
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Turquois
(a.) Having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.
Example Sentences:
(1) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(2) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(3) The calcium ions prevent the neutral red sorption and intensify the turquoise direct sorption.
(4) In the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific, the coral come together with tiny algae to make magic.
(5) The website shows the rooms are dingy and tasteless: turquoise carpets, small windows, chintz bedspreads.
(6) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was awash with the turquoises of the sea and the red bobble hats of the eccentric crew.
(7) Photograph: Alamy New Mexico is famous for its turquoise gemstones, and nowhere more so than the Cerrillos Hills , just south of Santa Fe.
(8) There's a large portrait of a dark-haired woman with turquoise eye shadow that resembles a Warhol.
(9) Under the pristine turquoise waters off the island are perfectly conserved seagrass meadows.
(10) At one stage Margaret and her husband Lord Snowdon jazzed it up with an of-its-time pink, turquoise and orange colour scheme.
(11) Now the turquoise-shuttered Agnelli villa at Kouloura, two bays south of the Rothschilds' and a three-minute boat hop to the Agni Taverna, is said to be up for sale at €15m.
(12) Don't expect sandy beaches, do expect iridescent turquoise seas (especially in the Blue Grotto sea cave), fresh seafood, and a laid-back, unhurried lifestyle that would seduce even the nerviest banker into blissful lethargy.
(13) From the street that snakes past it from the town hall, you see only blank walls, done out in shades of turquoise.
(14) The Iranian embassy in Mezze, its turquoise mosaic front giving an exotic glimpse of Isfahan or Shiraz, looks like a fortress.
(15) The beach is beautiful – arcing white sands intersecting in turquoise waters – but it is hard to imagine it as a tourist destination any time soon.
(16) Why does Bush’s shirt appear to glow in florescent tints of turquoise and purple?
(17) She has spry, bright eyes which match her curly blonde locks, and there’s a playful elegance in the vivid turquoise scarf and pink necklace she wears against her black outfit.
(18) I started talking to Octavia Mphumbude, who was tentatively testing a running machine in her turquoise jeans and black cardigan.
(19) Photograph: Getty Images Emerald lake in Yoho national park is one of those impossibly turquoise glacial lakes surrounded by mountains.
(20) I thought, "My God, if we put that with the turquoise water of Fiji and then pure white sand, what does that feel like?"