The difference between Adult and Blue

When used as nouns, adult means a fully grown human or animal, whereas blue means the colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light.

When used as verbs, adult means to (cause to) be or become an adult, whereas blue means to make or become blue.

When used as adjectives, adult means fully grown, whereas blue means of the colour blue.

check bellow for the other definitions of Adult and Blue

  1. Adult as a noun:

    A fully grown human or animal.

  2. Adult as a noun:

    A person who has reached the legal age of majority.

  1. Adult as an adjective:

    Fully grown.

    Examples:

    "an adult human, animal, or plant"

  2. Adult as an adjective:

    Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.

    Examples:

    "adult clothes"

  3. Adult as an adjective:

    Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; of, or pertaining to, pornography.

    Examples:

    "an adult movie"

    "This program contains adult content. Parental discretion is advised."

  4. Adult as an adjective:

    Vulgar or profane.

  1. Adult as a verb (nonstandard, rare):

    To (cause to) be or become an adult.

  1. Blue as an adjective:

    Of the colour blue.

    Examples:

    "the deep blue sea"

  2. Blue as an adjective (informal):

    Depressed, melancholic, sad.

  3. Blue as an adjective:

    Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.

    Examples:

    "The candle burns blue."

  4. Blue as an adjective (politics):

    Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue. Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party. Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.

    Examples:

    "I live in a blue constituency.  Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections."

    "Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout"

  5. Blue as an adjective (astronomy):

    Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

  6. Blue as an adjective (of [[steak]]):

    Extra rare; left very raw and cold.

  7. Blue as an adjective (of a [[dog]] or [[cat]]):

    Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.

  8. Blue as an adjective (archaic):

    Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.

    Examples:

    "'blue and sour religionists;  blue laws"

  9. Blue as an adjective (archaic, of women):

    literary; bluestockinged.

  10. Blue as an adjective (particle physics):

    Having a color charge of blue.

  11. Blue as an adjective (entertainment):

    Risque or obscene

    Examples:

    "His material is too blue for prime-time"

  1. Blue as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):

    The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.

    Examples:

    "color paneblue 0028E9"

  2. Blue as a noun:

    A blue dye or pigment.

  3. Blue as a noun:

    Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.

  4. Blue as a noun:

    Blue clothing

    Examples:

    "The boys in blue marched to the pipers."

  5. Blue as a noun (in the plural):

    A blue uniform. See blues.

  6. Blue as a noun (slang):

    A member of law enforcement

  7. Blue as a noun:

    The sky, literally or figuratively.

    Examples:

    "The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield."

    "His request for leave came out of the blue."

  8. Blue as a noun:

    The ocean; deep waters.

  9. Blue as a noun:

    Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.

  10. Blue as a noun:

    A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.

  11. Blue as a noun (snooker):

    One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.

  12. Blue as a noun:

    Any of the butterflies of the subfamily in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.

  13. Blue as a noun:

    A bluefish.

  14. Blue as a noun (Australia, colloquial):

    An argument.

  15. Blue as a noun:

    A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.

  16. Blue as a noun (British):

    A type of firecracker.

  17. Blue as a noun (archaic):

    A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

  18. Blue as a noun (particle physics):

    One of the three color charges for quarks.

  1. Blue as a verb (ergative):

    To make or become blue.

  2. Blue as a verb (transitive, metallurgy):

    To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.

  3. Blue as a verb (transitive, laundry):

    To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid)

  4. Blue as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

  1. Blue as an adjective (entertainment, informal):

    Pornographic or profane.

    Examples:

    "The air was blue with oaths."

    "a blue movie"

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