Adjective vs Blue - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
* 1899 , , Emerson and Other Essays , AMS Press (1969) (as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced] in Project Gutenberg)
(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
(legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
* Macaulay
(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
* Tooke
* 1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)
Of the colour blue.
(lb) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue'-stocking and the fogy!—and yours ''are'' pale '''blue , Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
Pornographic or profane.
(lb) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
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(lb) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
(lb) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
(lb) Possessing a coat of fur that is a shade of gray.
(lb) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
literary; bluestockinged.
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(lb) Having a color charge of blue.
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.
A blue dye or pigment.
Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
Blue clothing
(in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
(slang) A member of law enforcement
The sky, literally or figuratively.
The ocean; deep waters.
Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily in the family Lycaenidae.
A bluefish.
(Australia, colloquial) An argument.
* 2008 , Cheryl Jorgensen, The Taint ,
* 2009 , John Gilfoyle, Remember Cannon Hill ,
* 2011 , Julietta Jameson, Me, Myself and Lord Byron ,
A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
(British) A type of firecracker.
(archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
(ergative) To make or become blue.
(metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
(slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
As an adjective adjective
is (obsolete) incapable of independent function.As a noun adjective
is (grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.As a verb adjective
is to make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.As a proper noun blue is
an anglicization of (etyl) blau.adjective
English
Adjective
(-)- In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
- The whole English law, substantive and adjective .
Synonyms
* (incapable of independent function) dependent, derivative * (functioning as an adjective) adjectival * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) proceduralAntonyms
* (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) substantive * (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant) substantiveDerived terms
* adjectival * adjective clause * adjective phrase * adjective patterns * proper adjective * common adjectiveNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia adjective)- The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .
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Hyponyms
* See alsoVerb
(adjectiv)- Language has as much occasion to adjective' the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has ' adjectived all three.
- In English, instead of adjectiving' our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, ' adjectived signs from other languages
blue
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) * (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- The ladies were very blue and well informed.
Antonyms
* (having blue as its colour) nonblue, unblueNoun
(en noun)- The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
- The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield.
- ''His request for leave came out of the blue .
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- If they had a blue between themselves, they kept it there, it never flowed out onto the streets to innocent people — like a lot of things that have been happenin? on the streets today.
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- On another occasion, there was a blue between Henry Daniels and Merv Wilson down at the pig sale. I don?t know what it was about, it only lasted a minute or so, but they shook hands when it was over and that was the end of it.
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- I was a bit disappointed. Was that it? No abuse like Lord Byron had endured? Not that I was wishing that upon myself. It was just that a blue between my parents, albeit a raging, foul, bile-spitting hate fest, was not exactly Charles Dickens.
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*Verb
- They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never.