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Definition: Dark Blue |
Dark BlueNoun1. A dark shade of blue. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Dark BlueSynonyms: navy (n), navy blue (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I do. It feels like how being in love should be. Floating through a dark blue sky. (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dark Blue (2002) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |||
High Tech |
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Consumer Goods | |||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The man was dressed in gray wool trousers and a blue shirt, dark blue with sweat on the back and under the arms. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dark blue | 225 |
dark blue world | 14 |
dark blue dvd | 8 |
hugo boss dark blue | 5 |
hugo dark blue | 3 |
dark blue film | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dark blue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | ' (deep green, fly, musca), 碧藍 . (various references) | |
Dutch | donkerblauw. (various references) | |
Esperanto | malhele blua, malhelblua. (various references) | |
German | dunkelblau. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sötétkék szín (mazarine), sötétkék (mazarine, navy, navy blue, oxford blue). (various references) | |
Italian | blu scuro. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 濃紺 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | のうせいしょく, のう"", あおぐろい (discolored). (various references) | |
Manx | gorrym dorraghey. (various references) | |
Norwegian | mørkeblå. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arkday ueblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | azul‐ferrete. (various references) | |
Romanian | albastru-închis (deep blue). (various references) | |
Russian | синий (blue, Navy blue), темно-синий (mazarine, navy blue). (various references) | |
Swedish | mörkblå. (various references) | |
Turkish | lacivert (indigo blue, navy blue, prussian blue, ultramarine, ultramarine blue). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwrm (brown, dun). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Acanthias vulgaris, Cyanocitta cristata, Eucalyptus globulus, Parus caeruleus, RM:maset blau, Spinax acanthias, Squalus acanthias. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-k-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: baulked, durable. | |
-2 letters: aulder, balder, balked, balker, barked, belaud, blared, braked, bulked, burked, burled, darkle, dauber, debark, larked, lauder, lurked. | |
-3 letters: abler, alder, ardeb, baked, baker, baled, baler, barde, bared, baulk, beard, blade, blare, bleak, blear, blued, bluer, brake, bread, break, burke, daube, debar, drake, dural, kebar, lader, laked, laker, lubed, lured, raked, redub, ruble, ruled, ureal. | |
-4 letters: abed, able, auld, bade, bake, bald, bale, balk, bard, bare, bark, baud, bead, beak, bear, beau, bedu, blae, bled, blue, blur, brad, brae, bred, bulk, bura, burd, burl, dale, darb, dare, dark, daub, deal, dear, drab, drek, drub, dual, duel, duke, dura, dure, earl, kale, kbar, kerb, lade, lake, lard, lark, laud, lead, leak, lear, leku, leud, lube, lude, lure, lurk, rake, rale, read, real, rube, rude, rued, rule, urea. | |
-5 letters: alb, ale, arb, are, ark, auk, bad, bal, bar, bed, bel, bra, bud, bur, dab, dak, dal, deb, del, dub, due, ear, eau, eld, elk, era, kab, kae, kea, kue, lab, lad, lar, lea, led, lek, leu, rad, reb, red, rub, rue, uke, urb, urd. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-k-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: bulwarked. | |
+2 letters: parbuckled. | |
+3 letters: undrinkable. | |
+4 letters: blackguarded. | |
+5 letters: doublespeaker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 72 6B 42 6C 75 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01110010 01101011 00100000 01000010 01101100 01110101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a r k   B l u e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0072 006B 0042 006C 0075 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38678477236788771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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