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chinese | blue |

As proper nouns the difference between chinese and blue

is that chinese is any of several sinitic languages spoken in china, especially literary chinese, mandarin, cantonese, wu or min nan while blue is an anglicization of (etyl) blau.

As a noun chinese

is (uncountable) the people of china.

As an adjective chinese

is of china, its languages or people.

chinese

English

Proper noun

(wikipedia Chinese) (en proper noun)
  • Any of several Sinitic languages spoken in China, especially Literary Chinese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu or Min Nan.
  • The class of Sino-Tibetan dialects including Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min Nan and others.
  • The logographic writing system shared by this language family.
    • Hong Kong uses traditional Chinese .
  • Mandarin: the official language of the People's Republic of China

    • Derived terms

    * (language) Classical Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Middle Chinese, Old Chinese, Standard Written Chinese, Vernacular Chinese * (writing system) Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The people of China.
    • The Chinese have an incredible history.
  • (uncountable) All people of Chinese descent or self-identity
    • The Chinese are present in all parts of the world.
  • (countable) A person from China or of Chinese descent.
    • The place was empty till two Chinese walked in.
  • Chinese food or meal.
  • # (British, countable, informal) A Chinese meal.
  • We're going out tonight for a Chinese .
  • # (North America, uncountable, informal) Chinese food.
  • Please don't eat the Chinese ... I'm saving it for later.

    • Usage notes

    As with all nouns formed from -ese , the countable singular form ("I am a Chinese") is uncommon and often taken as incorrect, although it is rather frequent in East Asia as a translation for the demonyms written in Chinese characters or Japanese kanji.

    Synonyms

    * (person born in China) Chinaman

    Derived terms

    * American-born Chinese * American Chinese * Archaic Chinese * British-born Chinese * British Chinese * Burmese Chinese * Chinee * Chinese abacus * ) * Chinese American * (species ) * Chinese anise () * ) * Chinese Army technique * ) * Chinese auction * Chinese auricular therapy * Chinese Australian * Chinese-balance * (Bambusicola thoracicus ) * Chinese bamboo torture * ) * Chinese barbecue sauce * Chinese BASIC * Chinese bayberry (Myrica rubra'' ? ''Morella rubra ) * (Platycodon grandiflorus ) * ) * (Lentinula edodes ) * Chinese blackjack * Chinese block * Chinese blue * Chinese boxes * Chinese Brazilian * Chinese British * Chinese Briton * Chinese broccoli ( ) * Chinese brown sauce * Chinese burn * Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa varieties) * Chinese calendar * Chinese Cambodian * Chinese Canadian * Chinese canonical texts * Chinese-capstan * ) * Chinese Cayman Islander * ) * Chinese celery () * ( ) * Chinese character * Chinese character encoding * ) * Chinese checkers, Chinese chequers * Chinese cherry * Chinese chess * ) * Chinese chicken salad * Chinese chikwando * Chinese Chippendale * ) * Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia ) * Chinese classic texts * Chinese copy * ) * ) * Chinese crescent * Chinese Crested * Chinese Crested Dog * (Thalasseus bernsteini ) * ) * Chinese Cuban * ) * Chinese cut * Chinese date (Ziziphus jujuba ) * Chinese deity * Chinese desert cat (Felis bieti ) * (Chinese dormouse) () * Chinese dragon * (Chinese egg gooseberry) () * Chinese egg noodles * (Solanum melongena varieties) * (Egretta eulophotes ) * Chinese eight-ball * (Chinese elm) () * ) * Chinese fried rice * Chinese frog * Chinese fuseki * ) * Chinese garden * Chinese gelatin, Chinese gelatine * ) * Chinese glue * Chinese gong * (Anser cygnoides ) * Chinese gooseberry (Actinidia'' spp., esp. and ''Actinidia deliciosa ) * (Accipiter soloensis ) * Chinese grapefruit (Citrus maxima ) * ) * Chinese gybe * ) * Chinese hamster () * Chinese hand analysis * Chinese handball * Chinese handcuffs * Chinese head tax * Chinese hedge * Chinese herbal medicine * Chinese herb tea * ) * ) * ) * Chinese house church * Chinese hypothesis * Chinese indigo () * Chinese Indonesian * Chinese ink * Chinese isinglass * (Ziziphus jujuba ) * Chinese jump rope * Chinese juniper () * Chinese kale ( ) * ) * Chinese Korean * Chinese lacquer * ) * Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi ) * (Physalis alkekengi ) * Chinese laundry * Chinese layering * ( ) * ) * (Lactuca sativa cultivars}) * Chinese linking rings * (Ixobrychus sinensis ) * ) * ) * Chinese lug * ) * Chinese mantis () * Chinese marble * ) * General Chinese * hacked by Chinese * Han Chinese * Indo-Chinese * Korean Chinese * Literary Chinese * Malaysian Chinese * overseas Chinese * Singaporean Chinese * South African Chinese * Straits Chinese * Thai Chinese * Vietnamese Chinese

    Related terms

    * China * Chinean, Chinian * Chinish * Sineish, Sinish * chinesery * Chinesian

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of China, its languages or people
  • * 1928 , (Otto Jespersen), An International Language , page 82
    • The construction of a verbal system which is fairly regular and at the same time based on existing languages is a most difficult task, because in no other domain of the grammar do languages retain a greater number of ancient irregularities and differ more fundamentally from one another. Still an attempt will be made here to conciliate the two points of view and to bring about something which resembles the simple Chinese grammar without, however, losing its European character or the power of expressing nuances to which we are accustomed in our own languages.
  • Exotic; unfamiliar; unexpected; used in phrases such as Chinese whispers, Chinese handcuffs, and Chinese checkers.

    • Derived terms

    * Chinese checkers * Chinese handcuffs * Chinese lantern * Chinese paper * Chinese room * Chinese wax * Chinese whispers

    Synonyms

    * (sense) Sinic, Sino- (prefix)

    See also

    * (zh) * Putonghua * Guoyu * Huayu * Guanhua * Hanyu * Zhongwen

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    blue

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of the colour blue.
  • (lb) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
  • *
  • *:“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.
  • #
  • # 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)
    • The ladies were very blue and well informed.
  • (lb) Having a color charge of blue.

    • Antonyms

    * (having blue as its colour) nonblue, unblue

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
    • The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
  • (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
  • (slang) A member of law enforcement
  • The sky, literally or figuratively.
    • The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield.
    ''His request for leave came out of the blue .
  • 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 , page 135,
    • 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.
  • * 2009 , John Gilfoyle, Remember Cannon Hill , page 102,
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , Julietta Jameson, Me, Myself and Lord Byron , unnumbered page,
    • 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.
  • 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.

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    Verb

  • (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:
    • 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 blue

    See also

    * * * * Havasupai * primary colour * rainbow * RGB

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