Unblue vs Unglue - What's the difference?
unblue | unglue |
(rare, outside, philosophy) Not blue.
* 1992 , Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda Davies (editors), Glimmer Train Stories :
* 1997 , University of Arizona Dept. of English, Sonora Review
* 2000 , Charles Travis, Unshadowed thought: representation in thought and language :
* 2007 , Barbara Blackman, Bryony Cosgrove, Judith Wright, Portrait of a friendship :
To cease being blue.
* 2006 , Honor Moore, Red Shoes: Poems (ISBN 0393329100), page 26:
* 2007 , Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan (ISBN 1555846467), page 18
To cause (something) to cease being blue; to make (something) not blue.
* 1987 , Indiana Review , issue 10, page 24:
* 2010 , Ron Dakron, Newt (ISBN 0930773195), page 26:
To separate that which was held by glue.
:We had to use warm water and solvent to unglue all the joints we put in yesterday.
As verbs the difference between unblue and unglue
is that unblue is to cease being blue while unglue is to separate that which was held by glue.As an adjective unblue
is (rare|outside|philosophy) not blue.unblue
English
Adjective
(-)- a god in an unblue sky.
- Soon an associational chain reaction occurs that stains blue all that has remained unblue ...
- A philosopher, busily sorting the world into the blue and the unblue , tells us that some ink is blue. We look at the ink one way, and it looks blue.
- Mind you, if they fly in downstairs, they are quite happy to settle for unblue mangoes.
Verb
- Blue at some distances unblues ,
- The boy was very hurt in the throat and his face was only now unbluing .
- They look like iced teeth where a storm unblues them.
