blue
adjective
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- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
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bleu,
bleue
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- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party. [late 20th c.]
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bleu,
démocrate
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- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
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déprimé
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blue
noun
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- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
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bleu,
bleue
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- A blue dye or pigment.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
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bleu
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blue
verb
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- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
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azurer
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- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
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bleuir,
bleuter
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- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
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bleuter
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blues
noun
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- (music genre) A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
- (music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
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blues
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