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What does blue mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word blue? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of the colour blue.
  2. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
  3. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
  4. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
    1. (politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party. [after 2000]
    2. (politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
  5. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
  6. (steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
  7. (dog) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
  8. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
  9. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
  10. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
  11. (comedy) Risque or obscene
Noun
  1. (countable and uncountable) 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.
  2. A blue dye or pigment.
  3. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
  4. Blue clothing
  5. (plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
  6. (slang) A member of law enforcement
  7. The sky, literally or figuratively.
  8. The ocean; deep waters.
  9. Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
  10. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
  11. Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatini in the family Lycaenidae.
  12. A bluefish.
  13. (Australia, colloquial) An argument.
  14. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
  15. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
  16. (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
  17. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
Verb
  1. (ergative) To make or become blue.
  2. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
  3. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid)
  4. (transitive, slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
Adjective
  1. (entertainment, informal) Pornographic or profane.
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