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blue Moon
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blue jay
blue jay common name for a familiar bird ( Cyanocitta cristata ) of central and E North America, allied to the crow, the raven, and the magpie, belonging to the family Corvidae. Almost a foot (30 cm) long, it is handsome and conspicuous. Its upper parts, including the crest, are grayish violet... Read more |
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Blue shark
blue shark (Prionace glauca) See CARCHARHINIDAE.... Read more |
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Blue marlin
blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) See ISTIOPHORIDAE.... Read more |
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Guy Davis
Guy Davis Blues singer, composer, guitarist "I never picked cotton except my BVDs up off the floor," bluesman Guy Davis has been quoted as saying, according to the Denver Post. Yet by the early years of the twenty-first century Davis had emerged as a prime interpreter and creator of the acoustic... Read more |
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Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon 1915–1992 Blues singer, songwriter, bass player, record producer At a Glance… Learned About the Real Blues Early Work on Chicago Blues Circuit Big Three Trio Achieved Success Began Affiliation With Chess Records Left Chess Over Royalty Dispute Brought Blues to an... Read more |
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Bobby Blue Bland
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Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler Rock band For the Record … Selected discography ... Read more |
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blue baby
blue baby infant born with a congenital heart defect that causes a bluish coloration of the skin as a result of cyanosis (deoxygenated blood). The color is most noticeable around the lips and at the tips of the fingers and toes. The cyanotic condition occurs when a large portion of the venous blood... Read more |
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aerial perspective
aerial perspective. Term describing the means of producing a feeling of distance in a painting by imitating the effect of atmosphere whereby objects look paler and bluer the further away they are from the viewer. Dust and large moisture particles in the atmosphere cause some scattering of light as... Read more |
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Blue Division
Blue Division, volunteer Spanish force which...German uniforms and equipment though some continued to wear their blue shirts. All swore allegiance to Hitler, though...Legion, made up of volunteers from the Blue Division, remained until spring 1944... |
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Blue Laws
Blue Laws, term applied to colonial legislation...found their way into the popular mind. Such blue laws as the prohibition of sports and work...similar laws in many places, like those in some states prohibiting the sale of tobacco or... |
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Little Blue Books
Little Blue Books, paperback series of small nickel and dime booklets issued by Emanuel...works of literature, socialist and free‐thinking tracts, sex books, and some original works by Will Durant, E.W. Howe, Upton Sinclair, and others... |
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Uniforms
...service, its uniforms include some of the newest. They reflect...During the Revolutionary War, blue was chosen as the primary color...century, the American soldiers' blue coats had button‐back lapels...insignia appeared in 1832.Sky blue trousers replaced ... |
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Jazz
...music. African‐American blues singing of the lower Mississippi...dances with indeterminate “blue” notes, rough vocal‐style...popularizing their “hot” blues‐oriented ragtime. In 1917...and sophisticated work and the blues‐oriented, aggressively ... |
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colour
...it reflects. For example, a blue car absorbs all colours except blue which is reflected. Normal daylight...red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet – of decreasing...colour is not pure but contains some white, it is ‘desaturated... |
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SEMANTICS
...English colour words like red and blue, which can be stated in terms of...SENSE relation have been identified, some traditional, some recent: (1) Hyponymy. Inclusion...synonyms in a language, but always some difference, of variety (AmE fall... |
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sailors' dress
...the Roman fleet were to be dyed blue to match the colour of the sea...of all sea uniforms is still blue.Of the general cut of the clothing worn...tendency to provide seamen with some sort of uniform clothing started...of the Dutch sea atlases show some of ... |
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gemstones
...Star stones’, which include some sapphires and rubies, show...range of strong colours including blue, green, pink, and yellow...bright green), aquamarine (blue-green), heliodor (yellow...as well as the more familiar blue. The finest rubies are of ... |
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United Nations
...which were quickly painted blue and passed to the troops, the first “Blue Helmets,” as UN peacekeepers...the United Nations dispatched Blue Helmets to the former...literally attempt anything. Some analysts felt that Franklin Roosevelt... |
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blue
...given to the state.Blue John a blue or purple banded variety of fluorite found in Derbyshire.blue law in colonial New England...such as shopping, on a Sunday.blue moon the type of something rarely...Tana in NW Ethiopia, it flows some 1,600 ... |
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blue-stocking
blue-stocking attrib. wearing blue stockings XVII; applied from c.1780 to the intellectuals who met in London at the houses of Mrs. Montague and others, where blue worsted stockings were worn by some instead of black silk. |
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blue giant
blue giant A massive star that has exhausted the hydrogen fuel in its core and left the main sequence. Blue giants have a surface temperature of around 30 000 K and a luminosity some 10 000 times that of the Sun. As they grow older... |
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blue mold
blue mold • n. a bluish fungus (Penicillium and other genera, phylum Ascomycota) that grows on food. Blue molds are deliberately introduced into some cheeses, and some kinds are used to produce antibiotics such as penicillin. |
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jazz
...Buddy Bolden and King Oliver. Some rags were notated (e.g. Joplin...improvised. About 1900 also, the ‘blues’ craze began. ‘Blues’ implies a largely vocal form...tempered scale intervals. In instr. blues the prominent instrs. were tpt... |
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Tippett, (Sir) Michael (Kemp)
...Autobiography Those Twentieth Century Blues (1991). CBE 1959. Knighted 1966. CH...mus., past and present, e.g. ‘blues’, quotations from Monteverdi, and...achieved an ethereal epigrammatic serenity. Some of his determinedly popular passages in recent years...fl., cl., str. ... |
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bluestocking
...originally used to describe a man wearing blue worsted (instead of formal black silk...three London society ladies, where some of the men favoured less formal dress...women who attended became known as blue-stocking ladies or blue-stockingers. |
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Hohhot
...a Mongolian city meaning ‘Blue City’, it was subsequently settled...merged with a new one, Suiyüan, some 2 1/2 miles (4 km) to the...first one and means the same, ‘Blue City’, from the Mongolian hoh ‘blue’ and hot ‘city’. The... |
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purple
...color intermediate between red and blue: the painting was mostly in shades of blue and purple. ∎ purple clothing...a crimson dye obtained from some mollusks, formerly used for...intermediate between red and blue: a faded purple T-shirt... |
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Large Magellanic Cloud
...relatively higher gas content. There is some weak spiral structure, and a noticeable...young clusters, including several young blue populous clusters, unknown in our Galaxy...large complex of gas and young stars. A blue supergiant star in the LMC exploded as... |
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chicken
chicken • noun 1. raising chickens on the farm | buy some boneless chickensynonyms: hen; fowl, poultry. See table...Cornish Sussex White Rock Wyandot Other Ground Birds black grouse blue grouse bobwhite capercaillie chukar fool hen francolin grouse... |
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cut
...crop, prune, dock, shear, shave, pare, mow. 6. cut some flowerssynonyms: detach, gather, harvest, reap. 7. cut...9. cut the unsuitable partssynonyms: delete, edit out, blue-pencil, excise. 10. his behavior cut mesynonyms: hurt... |
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happen
...synonyms: chance, have the good/bad luck. 4. she happened on a blue jay's nest synonyms: discover, find, find by chance, come...to me that he was lying). Transpire is a more formal (and some would say undesirable) word meaning to happen or occur, and... |
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light
...gloomy. 2. light shades of blue and rose synonyms: light-colored...the surprise inspection brought some incriminating evidence to lightsynonyms...enliven. throw/cast/shed (some) light on perhaps I can shed some light on this problemsynonyms... |
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censor
...were censored synonyms: cut, delete parts of, make cuts in, blue-pencil; edit, expurgate, bowdlerize, sanitize; informal...harsh criticism:' the DJ won't play the censored tracks; some senators considered a resolution of censure to express strong... |
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likeness
...or in superficial or external ways (with their short hair and blue eyes, they bore a strong resemblance to each other). Affinity...natural kinship, temperamental sympathy, common experience, or some other relationship (she has an affinity for young children... |
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take
...hire, lease. 7. she showed me several dresses but I took the blue onesynonyms: pick, choose, select, decide on, settle on...bus/motorwaysynonyms: use, make use of, utilize. 9. take some bread and winesynonyms: consume, eat, devour, swallow; drink... |
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put
...consign to a psychiatric/mental hospital. 3. I put away some money. See put aside sense 1. 4. she never puts her toys away...simulate, mimic, affect, assume. 6. she put ten dollars on Blue Bonnet to win synonyms: bet, gamble, stake, wager; place... |
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unique
...consensus among the development executives seems to be that there are some fantastically funny, very exciting, very, very unique talents here...village were in place yesterday afternoon, the day before their Blue Devils will face North Carolina.” (New York Times; Feb... |
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black
...doleful, funereal, dismal, forlorn, woeful, abject; informal blue; literary dolorous.antonym: cheerful. 6. black humor synonyms...Colored People. An inversion, people of color, has gained some favor, but is also used in reference to other nonwhite ethnic... |
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia Joins Blue Plans Nationwide to Launch...
Blue Health Intelligence will advance health care...consumers ATLANTA, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia announced today that it...their patients. Specifically, here are some examples of what BHI will ultimately provide... |
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Blue Cross of California Joins Blue Plans Nationwide to Launch Largest...
Blue Health Intelligence will advance health...Calif., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross of California (Blue Cross) announced today that it is collaborating...their patients. Specifically, here are some examples of what BHI will ultimately... |
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BLUE HEAVEN
...to call it. It can give linguists the blues. Many languages don't even have a special word for blue, lumping it in with the word for green...grayer forget-me-not blue, the steel blue of amsonia, or the darker ink and sapphire blues? And to ... |
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Seven Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans Form Alliance to Offer Regional...
Blue Cross Blue Shield Northern Plains Alliance Serves Largest...600 out-of-pocket, according to CMS. Blue Cross Blue Shield Northern Plains Alliance...market five Medicare Advantage PPO plans, some including the option of prescription drug... |
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Blue Pumpkin Jump Starts New Fiscal Year With #1 Rank in Global WFM Market;...
...Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Pumpkin, an industry leader...Sullivan analysts that gives Blue Pumpkin the greatest market share...fiscal quarter ending August 31, Blue Pumpkin reported another consecutive...addition to technology are the some of the reasons ... |
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network Offer a Super-Sized...
...banners on the Blue Cross Blue Shield building in downtown...375 Service Drive, the Blues' building is sporting...high "XL" in red and blue lights on its north and...More than 750 red and blue 25-watt bulbs spell...WE'RE READY FOR ... |
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Launches Free Bike-Sharing Program...
...spring there will be "suits" riding bikes at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) when it launches BlueCycle - a free bike...facilities services. "Giving people the option to get some exercise during the work day makes sense-it... |
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Blue Cross has power of numbers. (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arkansas...
...committee of occasional interest to Blue Cross is the Public Health...Bradford, it was better for Blue Cross to invest in Nelson on...Committee. When Nelson leaned on Blue Cross for a big mailing, the "Blues" really had no choice. With...federal auditing ... |
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Other Volunteers Bring LensCrafters'...
...LensCrafters Foundation Vision Van comes to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in downtown Detroit...collaborative effort by LensCrafters, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit...000 youngsters made on behalf of some 26 ... |
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Enters into National Contract For...
...independent, locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans across the U...modeling software at several Blues Plans made it logical for...medical management." "The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association represents some of the ... |
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