Grue

Gruename

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  A municipality of Innlandet, Norway, formerly part of the county of Hedmark.

grueverb詞源 1/ɡɹuː/

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  To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.

  • ["]I would have done Mr. Mordaunt's bidding too," he added, relaxing from his note of defiance, into the deferential whining tone with which he cajoled his customers, "if he hadna made use of profane oaths which made my very flesh grue, and caused me, in some sort, to forget myself."

gruenoun詞源 1/ɡɹuː/

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  A shiver, a shudder.

  • Upon all others the sight of Alison, were it but for a moment, cast a cold grue, not to be remembered without terror.
  • A Grue of Ice

gruenoun詞源 2/ɡɹuː/

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  Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts.

  • The butcher was covered in the accumulated grue of a hard day's work
  • There was grue everywhere after the accident

gruenoun詞源 3/ɡɹuː/

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  A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.

  • I managed to get into the house through the front once, but I was plunged into darkness and eaten by a monster called a grue.
  • To find a grue, turn off the light at night, or go for a walk in a dark place (but carry a flashlight with you).

grueadj詞源 4/ɡɹuː/

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  human-sciencesphilosophysciencesOf an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.

  • The grue property is defined as: x is grue if and only if x is green and is observed before the year 2000, or x is blue and is not observed before the year 2000.
  • The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue, since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue.
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  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesOf a single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that did not always distinguish between green and blue.

gruenoun詞源 4/ɡɹuː/

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  human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe property of being green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time.

  • [T]he color grue would change in color. Colors do not do this; so ‘grue’ cannot be a color term.
  • Philosophers made their points with thought experiments—[…] the color grue; […]
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  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA single color inclusive of both green and blue as different shades, used in translations from languages such as Old Welsh and Old Chinese that did not always distinguish between green and blue.

  • Grue is the last of the composite categories that languages lose; hence its frequency. The transition to Stage V, where all basic color categories are primary, occurs when grue is replaced by its component primaries blue and green.
  • Our third hypothesis supposes that grue is based primarily on green but includes blues at lower membership. This hypothesis, the “skewed” grue, is illustrated in Figure 3d.

gruenoun詞源 5/ɡɹuː/

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  slangNutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons.