to blue
- verb
- /blu/
- Exploring JLC, you find everything from rows of organized horological desks to oven rooms where they bake screws to blue them.
- the sky blued
Maybe is there lead in this oxen blued colour anyways, like I don't know.
- Maybe is there lead in this oxen blued colour anyways, like I don't know.
Examples
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Just because you can make the rice blue doesn't mean you have to.
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And and you talked about turning your mouth blue if you take a liquid form, right.
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And so I dyed it blue just for fun.
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The artist decided to blue the sky in her painting to create a brighter atmosphere.
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They used special dye to blue the fabric for the new uniforms.
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As the sun set, the waves began to blue under the fading light.
Synonyms
To make something sky blue
Idioms
You must choose between two options that are both bad
To start something that quickly becomes exciting or causes strong debate
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- US
A range of Appalachian mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia that look blue from far away
- Specialized
A share of a large, well-known company that is safe and pays steady dividends
A mountain range in the eastern United States from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
- Specialized
A very large powerful bomb the US military uses to destroy enemy positions
- 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
- 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
- US
A type of walleye fish with bluish color that lived in the Great Lakes and is now extinct
- Specialized
Bright blue electric flashes that shoot up from thundercloud tops into the upper sky
- Specialized
A way to release software using two identical systems to move users to the new version
A deep bright blue paint color first made from a stone called lapis lazuli and now often made artificially
- Formal
A group of respected experts chosen to study an important public problem and give advice
- US
A plant that lives for many years and has clusters of blue, star-shaped flowers in the southeastern United States
A water plant with blue flowers that people often use in art, religion, and traditional medicine
- Specialized
A musical note played a bit lower in jazz and blues to sound sad and emotional
How Blue
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blue as a verb comes from the color word blue, used to say something becomes that color, so to blue something is to make or become blue.