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Meaning of "steel blue" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STEEL BLUE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STEEL BLUE

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Steel blue is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STEEL BLUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Steel blue

Steel Blue Steel blue is a shade of blue that resembles blue steel, i.e., steel which has been subjected to bluing in order to protect it from rust. It is one of the less vibrant shades of blue; it is usually identified as a blue-grey color. The first recorded use of steel blue as a color name in English was in 1817. In 1987, Steel blue was included as one of the X11 colors when that color list was formulated. After the invention of the world wide web in 1991, these colors became known as the X11 web colors.

Definition of steel blue in the English dictionary

The definition of steel blue in the dictionary is a dark bluish-grey colour.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STEEL BLUE

steel
steel band
steel engraving
steel grey
steel guitar
steel helmet
steel industry
steel mill
steel tape
steel wool
steel-clad
steel-plated
steelbow
Steele
steelhead
steelie
steeliness
steelmaker
steelman
steels

WORDS THAT END LIKE STEEL BLUE

a bolt from the blue
air-force blue
blue
boys in blue
cobalt blue
Delft blue
duck-egg blue
electric blue
ice blue
indigo blue
into the blue
methylene blue
midnight blue
navy blue
out of the blue
powder blue
robin´s-egg blue
royal blue
sky blue
true blue
trypan blue

Synonyms and antonyms of steel blue in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «steel blue» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STEEL BLUE

Find out the translation of steel blue to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of steel blue from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «steel blue» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

钢蓝色
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

azul acero
570 millions of speakers

English

steel blue
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इस्पात नीला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأزرق الصلب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стальной синий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Blue Steel
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইস্পাত নীল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bleu acier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keluli biru
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stahlblau
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スチールブルー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스틸 블루
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Baja biru
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

màu xanh thép
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எஃகு நீலம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्टील ब्ल्यू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Çelik mavi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

blue Steel
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stal niebieska
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сталевий синій
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

albastru oțel
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μπλε χάλυβα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

staal blou
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stålblå
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stålblå
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of steel blue

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STEEL BLUE»

The term «steel blue» is regularly used and occupies the 56.134 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STEEL BLUE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «steel blue» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «steel blue» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about steel blue

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STEEL BLUE»

Discover the use of steel blue in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to steel blue and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bettas: Everything about History, Care, Nutrition, Handling, ...
For this concept, you need to understand what is meant by cornflower blue and steel blue, and to do that we must first talk about green. The phenotypic color green results from two identical genes for green coloration. The steel blue results  ...
Robert Goldstein, 2001
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Woldman's Engineering Alloys
AISI W2 water hardening tool steel. BLUE LABEL EXTRA* Wallace Murray Corp., Heller Tool Division Water hardening tool steel; C 0.6-1.4; Mn 0.25; Si 0.25; bal Fe. For drills, taps, cutters, punches; Type W1; water hardening. BLUE LABEL ...
John P. Frick, 2000
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Proceedings
steel-blue, but the head all brown, except a few blue feathers coming on the side ; first primaries unmoulted, as also are some of the secondaries and tail-feathers ; the throat almost entirely rufous, except the chin, which still remains somewhat ...
Zoological Society of London, 1870
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
As blue as steel; steel-blue (APP 352; MP 592) 1919 he surveyed the world with a pair of unblinking, intolerant steel-blue eyes. (p. 41) 1919 his teeth gleaming and his steel-blue eyes creating upon Coombes' mind an impression that they ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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Acid Bath
Invisible rays licked out of the bulbous muzzle of the pistol. The plastic splintered. Jon was out of his goldfish bowl and striding toward his own igloo adjacent to the service station when a Steel-Blue accosted him. "Out of my way," grunted Jon, ...
Bill Garson
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The Betta Handbook
An lBC document explains what happens when you cross a green betta (GG) with a steel blue betta (BlBl). The color of the offspring (BlG) is cornflower blue, a mix of steel blue (Bl) and green (G). That's why show rules place cornflower blue  ...
Robert J. Goldstein, 2004
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Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names
Starlight Starlight Blue Starling (same as Beaver) Static Steam Blue Steel Davy's Grey, Iron Blue, Pigeon's Neck, Steel Grey Steel Steel Blue Steel Blue Dark Steel Blue. Steel Grey (same as Steel) Steeplechase Stellar Sterling Blue Stil de ...
Kenneth Low Kelly, Deane Brewster Judd, 1976
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Stage Lighting Design: The Art, the Craft, the Life
Electric blue 790 Water blue 45 848 Cool blue 66 73 Steel blue 117 17 117 363 66 417 117 Shark blue 40 350 780 350 Azure blue 86 730 Azure blue 144 144 853 444 353 No-color blue 850 Christel blue 770 Pale navy blue 143 43 143 443  ...
Richard Pilbrow, 1997
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A monograph of the Hirundinidae
Adult male. General colour above glossy steel-blue, with a very little refiexion of golden-green under certain lights; lesser wing-eoverts like the heel: ; median and greater corerts black, edged with the gloss}r shade of the hack; bastard—wing, ...
R. Bowdler Sharpe
10
Bladesmithing with Murray Carter: Modern Application of ...
White steel has some quirks that must be mastered before it will render a superior blade, and that is why only true masters can consistently produce superior knives in white steel. Blue steel (1.2~1.4 percent carbon) is perhaps more commonly ...
Murray Carter, 2011

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STEEL BLUE»

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Darling takes the Royal crown
WEST Coast's Jack Darling marked his return from injury with five goals to lead East Perth to a 17-point win at Steel Blue Oval. In perfect football conditions, ... «Perth Now, Jun 15»
2
SportsMonday Column: Through steel blue eyes
As she glares at you through steel blue eyes, you decide she probably could. * * *. Carol Hutchins is the face of Michigan softball, though she'll disagree ... «The Michigan Daily, Feb 15»
3
Win a HTC One (M8) Steel Blue phone with Three
Three, Ireland's fastest growing mobile network is giving you the chance to win one of two HTC One (M8) Steel Blue handsets, now available exclusively to ... «RTE.ie, Aug 14»
4
MMK: steel blue
MMK, Russia's third largest steel producer, on Friday joined rivals Severstal and NLMK in pinning a gloomy forecast to its third quarter results as the falling price ... «Financial Times, Nov 12»

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« EDUCALINGO. Steel blue [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/steel-blue>. Apr 2024 ».
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