Azure vs Horizon - What's the difference?
azure | horizon |
(tincture) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
* 1997 , Brault, Early Blazon :
The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
* Wordsworth
(poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
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Lapis lazuli.
Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
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(tincture) In blazon, of the colour blue.
To colour blue.
The horizontal line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky.
The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest.
(geology) A specific layer of soil or strata
(archaeology, US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
As a verb azure
is .As an adjective azure
is azure (blue in colour).As a noun horizon is
the horizontal line that appears to separate the earth from the sky.azure
English
(wikipedia azure)Noun
- In Bb'' [Glover's Roll], the conventional letter ''B is used to indicate azure in most items.
- In robes of azure .
- Not like those steps / On heaven's azure .
Alternative forms
* (blue color on a coat of arms)Derived terms
* azurely * azureness * azurite * azurityAdjective
(-)- When Britain first, at Heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main.
Verb
(azur)See also
* ----horizon
English
Noun
(en noun)- A tall building was visible on the horizon .
- Some students take a gap year after finishing high school to broaden their horizons .