Word Finder - blue

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The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.

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A blue dye or pigment.

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Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.

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Blue clothing

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The boys in blue marched to the pipers.

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(in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.

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A member of law enforcement

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The sky, literally or figuratively.

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His request for leave came out of the blue.

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The ocean; deep waters.

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The far distance; a remote or distant place.

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Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.

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A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.

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One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.

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Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.

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A bluefish.

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An argument.

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A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.

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A type of firecracker.

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A bluestocking.

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One of the three color charges for quarks.

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To make or become blue.

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To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.

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(laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid)

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To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

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Of the colour blue.

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the deep blue sea

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Depressed, melancholic, sad.

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Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.

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The candle burns blue.

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Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

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Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

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(of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.

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(of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.

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Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.

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blue and sour religionists;  blue laws

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(of women) literary; bluestockinged.

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Having a color charge of blue.

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(entertainment) Risque or obscene

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His material is too blue for prime-time

She handed him a light blue shirt.

The bright blue eyes regarded her thoughtfully.

Those blue eyes were boring into her soul, searching for heaven only knew what.

It had a bright blue cover, which he was careful not to soil.

This zinger out of the blue took me aback.

Around it were arranged, like the five points of a star, the other five brilliant balls; one being rose colored, one violet, one yellow, one blue and one orange.

Cade kneeled beside the cradle and touched a blue crocheted bootie.

She was taller than Howie but rail thin and possessed an engaging smile, long blond hair and arresting blue eyes.

His blue gaze swept over her.

The hunt for my wife and Molly commenced at the scene of the blue van.

Inside was the most beautiful gown she'd ever seen in a mysterious shade of dark blue sprinkled with silver sequins.

Did you see that blue truck parked beside the road?

Their eyes met for a moment... piercing blue eyes meeting startled green eyes in a battle of nerve.

He raised the dark brow further, blue eyes twinkling with humor.

They sparkled like the blue dress and diamonds.

Her eyes are very big and blue, and her cheeks are soft and round and rosy and her hair is very bright and golden.

Dulce appeared at Carmen's side, dressed in a dark blue gown with a high collar.

Yancey eyed her blue sundress critically.

It is pale blue, trimmed with chiffon of the same color.

Thick dark lashes and a deep tan intensified the blue of his eyes, and his freshly shaven face had attractive angles.

It was Yancey, clad in boots, Jeans and a light blue polo shirt.

I'm okay with you running him over, the man with the cool blue eyes said.

Dorothy was too dazed to say much, but she watched one of Jim's big ears turn to violet and the other to rose, and wondered that his tail should be yellow and his body striped with blue and orange like the stripes of a zebra.

They wore blue uniforms and queer little caps.

Here and there over the whole of that blue expanse, to right and left of the forest and the road, smoking campfires could be seen and indefinite masses of troops--ours and the enemy's.

One, a tall, fair- haired lad in a clean blue coat, was standing over the others.

The little barefooted Frenchman in the blue coat went up to the Armenians and, saying something, immediately seized the old man by his legs and the old man at once began pulling off his boots.

In the ensuing darkness, red and blue lights flashed his shadow on the wet grass.

The blue skirt and sweater were a little dressy for jail, but they'd no doubt give her some fashionable stripes to wear anyway.

A patch of blue cement suggested a swimming pool might also inhabit the estate.

Something blue in the shadow of the trees caught her attention.

His face was sober, the blue eyes probing her mind again.

A touch of humor flashed in those blue pools, and then it was gone.

The neighbor we woke up says he's been around and he drives a dark blue van.

The woman had Dusty's cold beauty, with feminine, chiseled features, long blonde hair and large blue eyes lined with silver.

But instead of a rim of darker blue surrounding her irises, they were rimmed by a thick band of iridescent silver.

Damian met Dusty's clear blue eyes, blood boiling.

A strange voice in his head spoke the word again, and he saw the woman with blue and silver eyes.

He had blue eyes like Katie, and light colored hair.

Four days before, sentinels of the Preobrazhensk regiment had stood in front of the house to which Balashev was conducted, and now two French grenadiers stood there in blue uniforms unfastened in front and with shaggy caps on their heads, and an escort of hussars and uhlans and a brilliant suite of aides-de-camp, pages, and generals, who were waiting for Napoleon to come out, were standing at the porch, round his saddle horse and his Mameluke, Rustan.

A vein in the young man's long thin neck swelled like a cord and went blue behind the ear, and suddenly his face flushed.

She winced as she stood, and glanced up into blue eyes that gave every indication he could read her mind.

The frozen sea beneath her feet was the color of tar, the black clouds above paused mid-swirl around a pop of blue sky in the storm's center.

He was dressed in black, and his chiseled features and striking blue eyes were perfect enough to have been sculptured.

Dustin was lean and handsome with clear, cool blue eyes and sharp, angular features.

Rainy's Natural, a beautiful woman with mocha skin and blue eyes, leapt up from her seat.

The woman with the blue and silver eyes came from his dream!

Both wore tuxedos with matching blue cummerbunds, which amused her for such starkly different men.

His blue eyes were colder than the sky on a winter morning in Virginia.

He met Dusty's pale blue eyes and saw his pain reflected in Dusty's tight face.