Blue vs Clear - What's the difference?
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Of the colour blue.
(lb) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
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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.
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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.
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Transparent in colour.
Bright, not dark or obscured.
Free of obstacles.
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(lb) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
Free of ambiguity or doubt.
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, title= Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
(lb) Free of guilt, or suspicion.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(lb) Without a thickening ingredient.
Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
(lb) Free from the influence of engrams; see .
Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
Unmixed; entirely pure.
Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
Without diminution; in full; net.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
All the way; entirely.
Not near something or touching it.
free (or separate) from others
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(obsolete) In a clear manner; plainly.
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(lb) To remove obstructions or impediments from.
*1715–8 , (Matthew Prior), “Alma: or, The Progre?s of the Mind” in Poems on Several Occa?ions (1741), canto III,
*:Faith, Dick, I mu?t confe?s, ?tis true // (But this is only Entre Nous ) // That many knotty Points there are, // Which All di?cu?s, but Few can clear .
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter.
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, title= (lb) To become freed from obstructions.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
(lb) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from a matter; to clarify; especially, to clear up.
(lb) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Iam sure he will clear me from partiality.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:Wouldst thou clear rebellion?
(lb) To pass without interference; to miss.
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(lb) To become clear.
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(lb) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
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To earn a profit of; to net.
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(lb) To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
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*:Be?ides, he that cleares' at once will relap?e: for finding him?elfe out of ?traights, he will reuert to his cu?tomes. But hee that ' cleareth by degrees, induceth an habite of frugality, and gaineth as well vpon his minde, as vpon his E?tate.
To obtain a clearance.
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(lb) To defend by hitting (or kicking, throwing, heading etc.) the ball (or puck) from the defending goal.
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To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
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(carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
In ergative terms the difference between blue and clear
is that blue is to make or become blue while clear is to become freed from obstructions.In transitive terms the difference between blue and clear
is that blue is to treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust while clear is to obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.As a proper noun Blue
is {{surname|from=German}} An anglicization of German {{term|Blau|lang=de}}.As an adverb clear is
all the way; entirely.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.
Derived terms
* antiblue * between the devil and the deep blue sea * bice blue * black and blue * blue baby * blue bag * Blue Bird * blue blood * blue book * blue box * blue cat * blue catfish * blue cheese * blue chip * blue circle rate * blue cod * blue cohosh * blue crab * blue curls * blue devils * blue duck * Blue Ensign * blue flag * blue flier * blue flu * blue fox * blue funk * blue gound * blue gouse * blue gum * blue heaven * blue heeler * blue helmet * blue heron * blue jay * blue jeans * blue john * blue law * blue line * blue list * Blue Mantle * blue mold * blue Monday * blue moon * blue movie * Blue Nile * blue note * blue ointment * blue pages * blue pencil * Blue Peter * blue pike * blue plate * blue point * blue racer * blue riband * Blue Ridge * blue rinse * blue runner * blue shark * blue sheep * blue spruce * blue state * blue streak * blue vitriol * blue wall of silence * blue water * blue whale * blue wren * blueback * blueback salmon * bluebeard * bluebeat * bluebell * blueberry * bluebill * bluebird * blue-black * blue-blooded * bluebonnet * bluebottle * blue-chip * bluecoat * blue-collar * bluecurls * blue-eyed boy * blue-eyed grass * blue-eyed Mar * blue-eyed soul * bluefin * bluefin tuna * bluefish * bluegill * bluegrass * blue-green alga * blueing * blueish * bluejacket * bluely * blueness * bluenose * blue-pencil * blue-plate * bluepoint * blueprint * blue-ribbon * bluerinse * blue-rinse * blues * blueshift * blue-sky * blue-sky law * bluesman * bluestem * bluestocking * bluestone * bluesy * bluet * blue-tile fever * bluetit * bluetongue * blue-water * blueweed * bluey * bluing * bluish * bluishness * blut tit * bolt from the blue * boys in blue * Cambridge blue * cobalt blue * code blue * Colorado blue spruce * common blue * Copenhagen blue * cordon bleu * cornflower blue * cry blue murder * Danish blue * dark blue * duck-egg blue * eggshell blue * electric-blue * genetian blue * go blue * half-blue * ice blue * in a blue funk * indigo blue * iron blue * Kerry blue terrier * light blue * methylene blue * midnight blue * navy blue * Nile blue * once in a blue moon * out of the blue * Oxford blue * peacock blue * petrol blue * powder blue * Prussian blue * pygmy blue * robin's-egg blue * royal blue * Russian blue * saxe blue * Saxon blue * scream blue murder * * sky blue * slate blue * steel blue * Tasmanian blue gum * the blues * true-blue * trypan blue * until one is blue in the face * Wedgwood blueSee also
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Alternative forms
* (contraction used in electronics)Adjective
(er)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, / In action faithful, and in honour clear .
- Mother of science! now I feel thy power / Within me clear , not only to discern / Things in their causes, but to trace the ways / Of highest agents.
- With a countenance as clear / As friendship wears at feasts.
- Hark! the numbers soft and clear / Gently steal upon the ear.
- I often wished that I had clear , / For life, six hundred pounds a year.
Antonyms
* obscure * (of a soup) thickDerived terms
* as clear as a bell * as clear as day * as clear as mud * clarity * clearly * clearness * crystal clear * free and clear * in the clear * keep a clear head * keep clearAdverb
(-)- I threw it clear across the river to the other side.
- Stand clear of the rails, a train is coming.
citation, page= , passage=Much soul-searching is going on at the west London club who, just seven weeks ago, were five points clear at the top of the table and playing with the verve with which they won the title last season. }}
- Now clear I understand.
Verb
(en verb)p.297:
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared .
Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear' its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to ' clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
- the profit which she cleared on the cargo
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citation, passage=Bolton then went even closer when Elmander's cross was met by a bullet header from Holden, which forced a wonderful tip over from Cech before Drogba then cleared the resulting corner off the line.}}
Synonyms
* (clear a forest) stubDerived terms
* clear away * clear off * clear out * clear up * clearance * clearingNoun
(en noun)- a room ten feet square in the clear
