[blu:]

n.

blue

adj.

Blue, melancholy, depressed

blue

[blu:]

adj.

blue

a blue dress

Blue clothes

Your hands are blue with cold.

Your hands are blue with cold.

Your lips seem to become blue with cold.

Your lips seem to be purple with cold.

Depressed; melancholic

I'm feeling rather blue today.

I feel very depressed today.

The teacher seems to be feeling rather blue today.

The teacher seems to be in a bad mood today.

He looks blue.

He looks depressed.

Things are looking bluer than ever for their firm.

Things seem to be getting worse for their company.

shout blue murder

Complain loudly

till one is blue in the face

Will never succeed

You can telephone her till you're blue in the face but she'll never come.

You can keep calling her, but she will never come.

blue

n.

blue

Blue clothes

dressed in blue

Dressed in blue

blue

[blu:]

adj.

Blue, cyan

(of a person's face) gray; (of animal fur) bluish-gray

Depressed; melancholic

Wearing blue clothes; Marked by blue

(woman) learned

Puritan, strictly forbidden

Dirty, obscene

[Blue] of the Union Army.

Extreme, complete, complete

His face was blue with cold.

His face turned purple with cold.

She looks blue.

She looks depressed.

blue

n.

Blue, cyan

Blue pigment (or dye)

Blue cloth; Blue clothing; [pl.] navy blue uniform

People in blue uniforms; The person wearing the blue sign.

A member of a university sports team

A member of the Union Army (in the American Civil War)

Female scholar

[the blue] blue sky; Canghai

[the blues] melancholy

[the blues] A sad black American folk song; Slow four-step jazz dance

the light blues

Cambridge University Sports Team (or Cheerleading Team)

the dark blues

Oxford university sports team

He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.

He was demoralized by the failure of his career.

blue

vt.

(blued; blueing, bluing)

Dye ... blue

To squander (money)

While they've got money they blue it.

They spend money recklessly.

blue

vi.

Turn blue, appear blue

Bluebeard

[`blU:9bIEd]

n.

Blue beard (in French folklore) who killed six wives in a row; A man who marries or murders concubines indiscriminately.

bluebell

[5blu:bel]

n.

A plant with blue bell-shaped flowers

blueberry

[5blu:bErI; U.S. 5blu:berI]

n.

Vaccinium uliginosum

blue

vi.

Picking berries

bluebill

[`blU:bIl]

n.

American bluebill

blue-bird

n.

Robin (North America)

blue-black

[`blU:`blAk]

adj.

mazarine

blue-blooded

adj.

noble

From a noble family

purebred

bluebonnet

[`blU:9bCnIt]

n.

A blue hat, a man in a blue hat

Blue tits, blue-fronted parrots

Texas feather lentil

bluebottle

[5blu:bRt(E)l]

n.

Centaurea

Green-headed fly

bluebush

n.

Sky blue American tea; Silver leaf similar tree

bluechip

adj.

Blue chip, reliable

Outstanding, unique

bluecoat

[`blU:kEJt]

n.

People in blue uniforms; Police; The Union Army during the American Civil War

bluecollar

adj.

Wearing blue-collar overalls, manual labor

blueeyed

adj.

Blue-eyed

beloved

credulous

bluefish

[`blU:fIF]

n.

Herring from Atlantic coast of America; Common blue fish

blue-finished

adj.

Blue tempered, blue treated

bluegill

[`blU:^Il]

n.

Blue gill sunfish

blue-green

n.

turquoise

bluejacket

[`blU:9dVAkIt]

n.

Sailor, sailor

bluejoint

n.

Euphorbia canadensis

blueleek

n.

Allium sativum (Allium sativum)

bluenose

[`blU:nEJz]

n.

A puritan, a strict person

blue-pencil

[9blU:`pensEl]

vt.

Proofread [delete] with a blue pencil; [vulgar] veto; not allow

bluepoint

[`blU:pRInt]

n.

Blue oyster

blue-ribbon

[`blU:`ribEn]

adj.

First-rate, selected

blueroan

n.

Brown skin color due to black and white wool mixture; Black-and-white hairy animals

blueshortness

n.

blue brittleness

blue-sky

[`blU:`skaI]

adj.

(stock) unreliable; Unrealistic; Financial unsound

rationalistic

bluestocking

[5blu:stRkIN]

n.

A talented woman or scholar.

blue-throat

n.

Blue-throated silver carp

bluetick

n.

Blue fast dog

blue-tongue

n.

bluetongue

blued

adj.

Blue

blueing

[`blU:IN]

n.

bluely

adv.

blueness

[`blU:nIs]

n.

bluer

n.

Blue-dyed inspector (of guns)

baby blue

Light blue

be in the blues

Low mood; Listless; be depressed/melancholy/gloomy/disconsolate

fall in the blues

Low mood; Listless; be depressed/melancholy/gloomy/disconsolate

By all that's blue!

[Mouth] By God! It must be true!

cry the blues

be listless

drink till all's blue

Drunk, drunk

feel blue

feeling blue

give sb. the blues

Depress sb.

have the blues

be depressed/melancholy/gloomy/disconsolate

get the blues

be depressed/melancholy/gloomy/disconsolate

in the blue

In the blue sky [ocean]

into the blue

To the distance; Disappear without a trace

look blue

Look depressed; blue in the face

men in blue

Police; Sailor; Firefighters; American soldiers of the Union Army.

out of the blue

Completely by accident.

Oxford blue

dark blue

The dark blue costume of the Oxford University team.

dark blue

dark blue

The dark blue costume of the Oxford University team.

sing the blues

Sing a blues song

Be dejected and depressed

the Blue and the Gray

The North Army and the South Army in the American Civil War

till all's blue

Until you get dizzy (ie drink too much)

to the bone

true blue

A faithful and reliable person; be extremely loyal and devoted

A loyal member (of a political party)

True blue will never stain.

Honest people will never do bad things; Pure morality will not be defiled (butchers often wear blue aprons to prevent their clothes from being stained with blood, hence the phrase).

win one's blue.

(students from Oxford, Cambridge, etc.) were selected as players in the school team.

get one's blue.

(students from Oxford, Cambridge, etc.) were selected as players in the school team.

academy blue

Greenish yellow

acetyl brilliant blue

Acetyl brilliant blue

acid anthraquinone blue

Acid anthraquinone blue

acid chrome blue R

Acid chrome blue

R Alexandria blue

Alexander blue (bright blue pigment containing copper silicate, used in murals in ancient Egypt)

alizarine blue

Alizarin blue; anthracene blue

anthracene blue

Alizarin blue; anthracene blue

alkali blue

(acid) basic blue

amparo blue

Bright blue

aniline blue

Aniline blue; Water-soluble p-nitroanthracene blue

anthranol chrome blue

Anthracophenol chrome blue

anthraquinone blue

Anthraquinone blue

antwerp blue

Zinc ferrocyanide powder

autogene sulfur blue

Otto refined sulfur (chemical) blue

azo blue

Azo blue

azure blue

Azure blue

basic blue

alkali blue

battleship blue

blue-gray

benzanil blue

Phenylene aniline blue

benzo fast blue

Benzo fast blue

Berlin blue

Berlin blue (i.e. Pulan)

beryl blue

Sanqing; Azurite (pigment)

Bremen blue

Bremen Blue (a very stable blue mural pigment)

brilliant cresyl blue

brilliant cresyl blue

brilliant wool blue

Brilliant blue

bromophenol blue

bromophenol blue

bromthymol blue

Bromthymol blue; Dibromothymol sulfophthalein

bronze blue

Bronze blue, Prussian blue

bronzeless blue

Copper-free bright iron blue

cadet blue

Grey blue

caledon brilliant blue

Caledonian brilliant blue

celeste blue

Azure blue, cobalt zinc blue

ceramic cobalt blue

Porcelain blue

China blue

Chinese blue; Acid water-soluble cyan

chloramine blue

Chloramine blue

chloramine sky blue

Chloramine blue

chrome leather blue

chrome leather blue

cobalt blue

Cobalt blue

congo blue

Congo blue

copper blue

Copper blue; Shilan

cornflower blue

Cornflower color, light blue (tempered color)

cyanine blue

phthalocyanine blue

dark blue

Dark blue

delphinium blue

Delphinium

dianil blue

Diphenylamine blue

dianisidine blue

Direct azo blue

dianthrene blue

Dianthracene blue (vat indigo dye)

diazamine blue

Diazo amine blue

diazo fast blue

Diazo fast blue

diazogen blue

Diazochrome blue

direct sky blue

Direct cyan

dumont blue

Big cyan

Egyptian blue

Egyptian blue (a light blue pigment containing copper, calcium and silicon, mostly used in Egyptian murals)

Calcium-silicon-copper mine

electric blue

iron blue

enamel blue

Enamel cyan, glaze cyan pigment

erio alizarine blue

Wool alizarin blue

erlangen blue

iron blue

Evans blue

Immune Evans blue

fanal blue

Fanalan

fast mordant blue B

Fast mordant dyeing blue

B fast sky blue

Firm sky blue; Sulfonated copper titanium cyanine

French blue

Ultramarine green; Foqing

gobelin blue

Dark turquoise

greenish blue

Green light blue, green phase blue (blue with green head)

green blue

Bamboo Green

Heliogen blue

phthalocyanine blue

Hungary blue

Hungarian blue, cobalt blue

hydron blue

hydron blue

ice blue

Ice dyed blue

icyl blue

Yi se LAN

indanthrene blue

Indanthrene blue

indigo blue

indigo

indoine blue

Indoin blue

indophenol blue

Indophenol blue

Italian blue

Italian blue, Venice blue

kiton blue

Chitong blue

kryogen blue

Ice blue

leithner's blue

Cobalt blue (pigment)

leucomethylene blue

Colorless [leuco] methylene blue

light blue

light blue

lithosized blue

Lithographic blue (ultramarine without free sulfur, suitable for printing ink)

litmus blue

Ophiopogon

lumiere blue

Luminous blue

manganese blue

Manganese blue (bright blue pigment)

methyl blue

methyl blue

methylence blue

(basic) methylene blue

methylthymol blue

Methyl thymol blue

mid night blue

dark blue

milori blue

Miloli blue

minus blue

Reduce blue (color); Lack of blue (yellow)

molybdenum blue

molybdenum blue

monastral blue

Single star blue; Pigment phthalocyanine blue

naphthamine blue

Naphthylamine blue

navy blue

Navy blue, dark blue, navy blue

Neuberg blue

Newberg blue

neutral blue

Neutral blue

parma blue

Bama blue; Triphenylamine dye

patent blue

Patent blue (triphenylmethane dye)

peacock blue

Kong Quelan (dye)

pearl blue

Light blue gray

Peking blue

Beijing blue (that is, Touqing)

phenol blue

(benzene) phenol blue

phenylene blue

Indapamine blue

phthalo blue

phthalocyanine blue

Pompeian blue

Pompeii blue (a blue synthetic pigment similar to Egyptian blue)

pontamine blue

Lutetium blue

potash blue

Potash blue

powder blue

Cobalt oxide (dark blue pigment); Wisteria pigment powder (light gray blue)

printing blue

Dyeing blue; Printing blue

purplish blue

purplish blue

pyoktanin blue

Methyl violet, pytannin blue

reddish blue

Magenta blue, red blue

sandothrene blue

Shandao Shilin blue

saxe blue

Water blue; baby blue

serge blue

(basic) methylene blue, serge blue

sky blue

Sky blue, blue, light blue, light blue pigment containing zinc oxide and ultramarine blue.

solantine blue

Scratch orchid pavilion blue

solanthrene blue

Scratch blue

solid blue

Solid blue

soluble blue

Soluble blue

soluble indigo blue

Soluble indigo

spirit blue

Alcohol-soluble green

stone blue

Grey blue

sulfur blue

Blue sulfide

thumb blue

Indigo (dye)

Thymol blue

thymolsulfonphthalein

toluidine blue

(basic) toluidine blue

turkey blue

Cobalt chrome green

turquoise blue

Turquoise, turquoise

Tyrian blue

Terlan

ultramarine blue

Ultramarine (blue) (synthetic blue pigment), dark blue

vat blue

Wenglan

Venetian blue (=Italian blue)

Venice blue

verditer blue

Copper blue, copper blue carbonate

violet blue

Violet blue; Blue with purple head

water blue

Water-soluble blue

Watteau blue

Erqing (pigment)

xylenol blue

Xylenol blue

blue

From old French bleu blue