| inglese > italiano | |
| blue | |
| 1. agg. blu | |
| 2. agg. turchino | |
| 3. agg. azzurro | |
| 4. agg. livido | |
| 5. agg. triste | |
| inglese > inglese | |
| 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. subst. 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. subst. A blue dye or pigment. |  |
| 16. subst. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust. |  |
| 17. subst. Blue clothing |  |
| The boys in blue marched to the pipers. |  |
| 18. subst. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues. |  |
| 19. subst. (slang) A member of law enforcement |  |
| 20. subst. 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. subst. The ocean; deep waters. |  |
| 22. subst. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color. |  |
| 23. subst. A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat. |  |
| 24. subst. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points. |  |
| 25. subst. Any of the butterflies of the subfamily in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings. |  |
| 26. subst. A bluefish. |  |
| 27. subst. (Australia, colloquial) An argument. |  |
| 28. subst. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes. |  |
| 29. subst. (British) A type of firecracker. |  |
| 30. subst. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking. |  |
| 31. subst. (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 |  |
| italiano > inglese | |
| blu | |
| 1. adj. blue |  |
| 2. subst. the colour blue |  |