blue
- noun
- /blu/
- Archaic
- In the hospital, the nurse administered blue to help the patient relax before surgery.
Examples
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Patients often respond well to blue when used as a sedative in clinical settings.
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Code blue, we got a cardiac arrest.
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Buddy Guy was playing slow blues at the Trump Marina Casino in Atlantic City.
Academic text (2002) -
Mavis Staples is a legend in gospel, blues, and soul music.
Academic text (2008) -
The fourth and fifth-grade students enjoyed performing a simple blues piece for woodwind and percussion instruments.
Academic text (2008) -
Charters has reproduced the lyrics of many early blues songs that may be analyzed and interpreted.
Academic text (1993) -
The doctor prescribed blue for its calming effects during the patient's treatment.
Synonyms
A prescription medicine that makes a person sleep or feel calm under a doctor's care
A medicine that makes people sleep and helps control seizures
A drug used to calm people and help them sleep
A strong sleeping medicine that makes people sleep
A strong medicine that makes people sleep and calms them
Idioms
You must choose between two options that are both bad
To start something that quickly becomes exciting or causes strong debate
Compounds
- US
A range of Appalachian mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia that look blue from far away
A mountain range in the eastern United States from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
- Specialized
A share of a large, well-known company that is safe and pays steady dividends
- US
A bluish crab that lives on North America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts and is eaten for its sweet meat
- Formal
An independent group of respected experts who study a public problem and give advice
- Specialized
Tiny living things in water that make food from light and often look blue-green
- Jargon
An unwritten rule among police officers not to report a colleague's illegal actions to protect them from punishment
A large bird with blue-grey feathers, long legs and a long neck that lives near water
- Specialized
Bright blue electric flashes that shoot up from thundercloud tops into the upper sky
- US
A type of walleye fish with bluish color that lived in the Great Lakes and is now extinct
- Specialized
A musical note played a bit lower in jazz and blues to sound sad and emotional
- Specialized
A dark green dye used to stain cells, act as an antiseptic, and treat cyanide poisoning
Surface Forms
Etymology
The drug nickname blue comes from some pills that were blue in color, so people called the sedative by its color.