blue
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- noun
- /blu/
:
cielo
- I saw a northbound flock of geese Against the sky of baby blue
- bolt from the blue
I just see, I just see blue, the blue sky.
- I just see, I just see blue, the blue sky.
Examples
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We're alive and the sky is blue and you know, and all that.
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What colors would you add to a desert sunset or to the cool green of the sea, or the blue of the sky?
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I just see, I just see blue, the blue sky.
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Good morning world, it's nice to wake up through another beautiful blue sky day.
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And the blue sky, sky blue is scattered sunlight.
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The sky had ebbed to dark blue, though the last light was almost white in the west.
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The sky seems a brand-new shade of blue.
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The sky was a high and perfect blue over the mauve Santa Catalina Mountains on the horizon.
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Overhead, the crystalline ceiling panels rose into an endless blue that might have stretched beyond the infinite.
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The sky was a brilliant blue that day, thanks to the frigid wind roaring in from Mongolia.
Synonyms
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The space above the earth that looks blue in daytime
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Sky that looks clear and blue during the day
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7.1
The open blue sky far above the ground
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7.4
A very large open sky that seems to invite travel or adventure
Idioms
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You must choose between two options that are both bad
To start something that quickly becomes exciting or causes strong debate
Compounds
- US
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5.1
A range of Appalachian mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia that look blue from far away
- Specialized
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4.1
A share of a large, well-known company that is safe and pays steady dividends
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3.3
A mountain range in the eastern United States from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
- Specialized
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8.4
A very large powerful bomb the US military uses to destroy enemy positions
- US
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3.4
A bluish crab that lives on North America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts and is eaten for its sweet meat
- Formal
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6.1
An independent group of respected experts who study a public problem and give advice
- Jargon
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9.5
An unwritten rule among police officers not to report a colleague's illegal actions to protect them from punishment
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4.6
A large bird with blue-grey feathers, long legs and a long neck that lives near water
- US
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9.9
A type of walleye fish with bluish color that lived in the Great Lakes and is now extinct
- Specialized
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9.9
Bright blue electric flashes that shoot up from thundercloud tops into the upper sky
- Specialized
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5.8
A way to release software using two identical systems to move users to the new version
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6.8
A deep bright blue paint color first made from a stone called lapis lazuli and now often made artificially
- Formal
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5.9
A group of respected experts chosen to study an important public problem and give advice
- US
1
6.5
A plant that lives for many years and has clusters of blue, star-shaped flowers in the southeastern United States
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7.7
A water plant with blue flowers that people often use in art, religion, and traditional medicine
- Specialized
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7.0
A musical note played a bit lower in jazz and blues to sound sad and emotional
How Blue
Surface Forms
Etymology
The noun blue meaning the sky comes from the color word blue, so talking about the 'blue' often means the wide, clear sky above us.