Blue vs Fish - What's the difference?
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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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# Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
(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:
(countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Any animal that lives exclusively in water.
* 1774 , Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature , Volume IV:
(uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
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(countable) A period of time spent fishing.
(countable) An instance of seeking something.
(uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
(uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
(countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
(countable, poker slang) A bad poker player.
(countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
(nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(countable, nautical) A torpedo.
* 1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), page 344:
(zoology) A polyphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
# Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
# Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
# Within infraphylum Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates (also including Tetrapoda)
## Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
## Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
To try to find something other than fish in (a body of water).
To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
(cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
To attempt to gain.
(nautical) To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see NOUN above).
* 1970 , James Henderson, The Frigates, an account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815 , Wordsworth (1998), page 143:
As proper nouns the difference between blue and fish
is that blue is an anglicization of (etyl) blau while fish is .blue
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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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{{ picdic , image=Clupea harengus (Pieni).jpg , detail1= , detail2= }}Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
- Salmon is a fish .
- The Sun Mother created all the fishes of the world.
- The Sun Mother created all the fish of the world.
- We have many fish in our aquarium.
- The whale, the limpet, the tortoise and the oyster… as men have been willing to give them all the name of fishes , it is wisest for us to conform.
- The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
- The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
- Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
- The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.
Usage notes
The collective plural of fish'' is always ''fish'' in the UK; in the US, ''fishes'' is encountered as well. When referring to two or more kinds of fish, the plural is ''fishes .Synonyms
* (potential swindling victim) mark * (card game) Go Fish * (bad poker player) donkey, donkDerived terms
{{der3, big fish in a small pond , bony fish , cold fish , dragonfish , drink like a fish , fish and chips , fish bowl/fishbowl , fishbrain , fishcake , fisher , fisherman , fish-eating grin , fish finger , fishful , fishgig , fish hook/fishhook , fishkill , fish ladder, fishway , fishless , fishlike , fishling , fishly , fishmeal , fishmonger , fishmoth , fish out of water , fish paste/fishpaste , fish pond/fishpond , fishpound , fishpox , fishroom , fish sauce , fishskin , fishskin disease , fish slice , fish supper , fishtail , fish tank/fishtank , fish tape , fishwife , fishwoman , fishworm , fishy , , goatfish , goldfish , have other fish to fry , like shooting fish in a barrel , jellyfish , lumpfish , overfish , queer fish , sailfish , shellfish , silverfish , starfish , neither fish nor fowl , surgeonfish , swim like a fish , there's plenty more fish in the sea , tuna fish}}Hyponyms
* (aquatic cold-blooded vertabrae with gills) Cephalaspidomorphi, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes * (food) seafoodSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(es)- She went to the river to fish for trout.
- They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
- Why are you fishing through my things?
- He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
- The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
- The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
- the crew were set to replacing and splicing the rigging and fishing the spars.