transcription, транскрипция: [ blu: ]
( bluer, bluest, blues)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
There were swallows in the cloudless blue sky...
She fixed her pale blue eyes on her father’s.
...colourful blues and reds.
COLOUR
2.
The blues is a type of music which was developed by African American musicians in the southern United States. It is characterized by a slow tempo and a strong rhythm.
N-PLURAL : the N
3.
If you have got the blues , you feel sad and depressed. ( INFORMAL )
Interfering in-laws are the prime sources of the blues.
N-PLURAL : the N
4.
If you are feeling blue , you are feeling sad or depressed, often when there is no particular reason. ( INFORMAL )
There’s no earthly reason for me to feel so blue.
= down
ADJ : v-link ADJ
5.
Blue films, stories, or jokes are about sex.
...a secret stash of porn mags and blue movies.
ADJ : ADJ n
6.
If something happens out of the blue , it happens unexpectedly.
One of them wrote to us out of the blue several years later.
PHRASE
7.
blue moon: see moon