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blue

blauw

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blue

1. blauw

Engels > Engels

blue

1. adj. Of the colour blue.

the deep blue sea

2. adj. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.

3. adj. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.

The candle burns blue.

4. adj. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

5. adj. (politics, in particular, in the US) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.

I live in a blue constituency. Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.

6. adj. (AU, politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.

Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout

7. adj. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

8. adj. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.

9. adj. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.

10. adj. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.

blue and sour religionists; blue laws

11. adj. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.

12. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.

13. adj. (entertainment) Risque or obscene

His material is too blue for prime-time

14. n. 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

(color panel, blue, 0028E9)

15. n. A blue dye or pigment.

16. n. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.

17. n. Blue clothing

The boys in blue marched to the pipers.

18. n. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.

19. n. (slang) A member of law enforcement

20. n. 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.

21. n. The ocean; deep waters.

22. n. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.

23. n. A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.

24. n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.

25. n. Any of the butterflies of the subfamily in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.

26. n. A bluefish.

27. n. (Australia, colloquial) An argument.

28. n. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.

29. n. (British) A type of firecracker.

30. n. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

31. n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.

32. v. To make or become blue.

33. v. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.

34. v. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid)

35. v. (transitive, slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

36. adj. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.

The air was blue with oaths.

a blue movie

Nederlands > Engels

blauw

1. adj. blue

De lucht is vandaag zo blauw en helder. - The sky is so blue and clear today.

Ze droeg een blauw jurkje op het feest. - She wore a blue dress to the party.

2. adj. visibly bruised, as in blauwe plek 'a bluish bruise'

3. adj. (slang) drunk

4. n-n. The colour blue.

5. n-n. Police (especially in the phrase: blauw op straat)

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

The flower is yellow and the others are blue.
    De bloem is geel en de andere zijn blauw.
It was a beautiful summer, and the sky was always blue.
    Het was een prachtige zomer, en de lucht was altijd blauw.
This girl's eyes are blue.
    De ogen van dit meisje zijn blauw.
Do you have that in blue?
    Heb je die in het blauw?
She has beautiful blue eyes.
    Ze heeft prachtige blauwe ogen.

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