Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An official list of persons in the employ of the U.S. government.
- n. A book listing the names of socially prominent people.
- n. A blank notebook with blue covers in which to write the answers to examination questions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- engraving A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.
- The United States official “Biennial Register.”
WordNet 3.0
- n. a blue booklet used in universities for writing examinations
- n. a report published by the British government; bound in blue
- n. a register of persons who are socially prominent
Examples
“Secret door behind shelves by fire-place-Hyook pull big blue book on third shelf to open. ”
“Justin Kloster looked from his blue book to his watch and back again.”
“I talked to Albert's uncle about it one day, when the others had gone to church, and I did not go because of earache, and he said it came from reading the wrong sort of books partly – she has read Ministering Children, and Anna Ross, or The Orphan of Waterloo, and Ready Work for Willing Hands, and Elsie, or Like a Little Candle, and even a horrid little blue book about the something or other of Little Sins.”
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EU Buzz - collocations
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blue
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