Hat vs Blue - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between hat and blue

is that hat is a covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration while blue is 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.

As an adjective blue is

of the colour blue.

As a verb blue is

to make or become blue.

As a proper noun Blue is

{{surname|from=German}} An anglicization of German {{term|Blau|lang=de}}.

hat

English

Noun

(en noun)

A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

*:There was a neat hat -and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

(lb) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

*1993 , Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter , Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ISBN 978-0-634-00927-3, p.121:

*:My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.

(lb) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.

# The lottery or draw itself.

(lb) A hat switch.

*2002 , Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL , p.139:

*:The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats , and balls.

*1997 October 6th, “ Patricia V. Lehman]” (user name), [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/topics?hl=en rec.antiques] (Usenet newsgroup), “[https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/browse_thread/thread/67b2bb8b89588055/8496fc478c032593?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22hat%22#8496fc478c032593 Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia]”, [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques/msg/8496fc478c032593?hl=en&dmode=source&output=gplain Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1

*:I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat' over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “' hat .”

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

{{der3, at the drop of a hat , bowler hat , brick in one's hat , hang one's hat on , hard hat , hatband , hatnote , hat parade , hatpin , hat trick , hatstand , hatter , home is where you hang your hat , put one's name in the hat , take one's hat off to , talk through one's hat , throw one's hat in the ring , pass the hat , under one's hat , wear too many hats , woolly hat}} (-)

External links

* ("hat" on Wikipedia)

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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

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