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How to pronounce blue
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What does blue mean?
adjOf a blue hue.
“the deep blue sea”
Depressed, melancholic, sad.
“But I'm bluer than blue / Sadder than sad.”
Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
“My hands were blue with cold.”
nounThe colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
“She watches the yachts in the creamy evening blues.”
Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
“I don't like red Smarties. Have you got a blue?”
A blue dye or pigment.
verbTo make or become blue; to turn blue.
“The dawn is wanly blueing.”
To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
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