Blue Peter

Definition

blue /blu:/ adj ( bluer, bluest ) ၁။ ျပာေသာ။ blue eyes ❍ a blue dress/shirt ❍ Her hands were blue with cold. ❍ SPECTRUM ၂။ ( infml esp US ) စိတ္မရႊင္ပ်ေသာ၊ ညိႇဳးငယ္ ေသာ။ feeling blue. ၃။ ညစ္ညမ္းေသာ။ အျပာ။ a blue film/movie/joke. blueness n [U] n ၁။ (က) [C,U] အျပာေရာင္။ light/dark blue ❍ material with a lot of blue in it. (ခ) [U] အျပာေရာင္ အဝတ္အထည္။ dressed in blue. ၂။ [C] (က) ( Brit ) ေအာက္စဖို႔ (သို႔) ကင္းဘရစ္တကၠသိုလ္ ကိုယ္စားျပဳ အားကစားအသင္းတစ္ခုခု၌ ပါဝင္သူအား ခ်ီးျမႇင့္သည့္ ဂုဏ္ထူး။ get a/one's blue for hockey/football. (ခ) ယင္းဂုဏ္ထူးရွင္။ an Oxford hockey blue. ၃။ [sing or pl v ] (က) the blues (အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုေတာင္ပိုင္းရိွ လူမည္းမ်ားစတင္ခဲ့သည့္) စည္းေလးေလး ႏွင့္ လြမ္းေဆြးဖြယ္ ဂ်တၨ္ဂီတ။ a blues singer/melody. (ခ) blues ယင္းသို႔ေသာသီခ်င္း။ sing a blues. ၄။ the blues [pl] ( infml ) စိတ္မရႊင္ပ်ျခင္း၊ ေဆြးလ်ျခင္း စသည့္ ခံစားမႈေဝဒနာမ်ား။ have (an attack of) the blues. ❏ blue baby n ပဋိသေႏၶပါ ႏွလံုးခြၽတ္ယြင္းမႈေၾကာင့္ ျပာႏွမ္းၿပီး ေမြးဖြားလာေသာ ကေလး။ ကေလးျပာ။ ❏ blue blood n [U] မဟာဆီမဟာေသြး။ ❏ blue-blooded adj မဟာႏြယ္ဖြား။ a blue-blooded family. ❏ blue cheese ( US also bleu cheese ) n [C, U] မိႈေၾကာင့္ အျပာစင္းမ်ားေပၚေနသည့္ဒိန္ခဲ။ ဒိန္ခဲျပာ။ ❏ blue-chip adj တန္ဖိုးခိုင္မာသည့္ စက္မႈရွယ္ယာ (ထုတ္ေသာ၊ ယင္းႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ)။ blue-chip stocks/companies. ❏ blue-collar adj ကာယ (အလုပ္ႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ)။ blue-collar workers/jobs ❍ a blue-collar union. Compare WHITE-COLLAR ❏ sb's blue-eyed boy [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit often derog ) အထူးမ်က္ႏွာသာရသူ။ အခ်စ္ေတာ္။ He's the manager's blue-eyed boy. ❏ blue pencil n ( Brit ) ျပဇာတ္၊ စာအုပ္စသည္ ျပင္ဆင္ တည္းျဖတ္ရာ၌သံုးသည့္ ခဲတံျပာ။ ❏ Blue Peter n သေဘၤာ ထြက္ခြာေတာ့မည္ကို ေဖာ္ျပေသာ အျပာခံအလယ္၌ အျဖဴစတုရန္းကြက္ပါသည့္ အလံ။ ❏ blue tit n ဝမ္းဗိုက္အဝါေရာင္၊ အေတာင္အၿမီးႏွင့္ ဦးေခါင္း အျပာေရာင္ရိွသည့္ ငွက္ငယ္။ ❏ blue whale n (ကမ႓ာတြင္ အႀကီးဆံုးသတၱဝါ ျဖစ္သည့္) ေဝလငါးျပာ။ ❏ out of the blue [ IDM ] မေမွ်ာ္မလင့္ဘဲ။ ဆိုင္းမဆင့္ ဗံုမဆင့္။ She arrived out of the blue. ❍ His resignation came (right) out of the blue. ❏ scream, etc blue murder [ IDM ] ( infml ) က်ယ္က်ယ္ ေလာင္ေလာင္ကန္႔ကြက္သည္။ The union yelled blue murder when one of its members was sacked. ❏ (do sth) till one is blue in the face [ IDM ] ( infml ) လွ်ာထြက္မတတ္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည္။ ေသလုေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ He can write me letters till he's blue in the face, I'm not going to reply.

Examples

1. He looked at her with his pale blue eyes.
2. The sky was gloriously blue.
3. [blue with cold] : My fingers were turning blue with cold.
4. She usually calls her mother when she’s feeling blue.