Blue Shift

Word BLUE SHIFT
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The increase in the frequency of starlight because of the Doppler shift. If a yellow star is moving toward you, it's light will appear slightly bluish. In outer space, blue shifted galaxies are rare. Blue shift can also be created by shrinking the space between two points via gravity or space warps. Urban Dictionary

1. The political change of the United States in favor of liberalism. 2. A commercial expansion pack for the popular computer game Half-Life that is commonly mocked with the name "Blue Shit". In my opninion, it is a good expansion that gets lots of hate for being a little too short. It also included the high definition pack for Half-Life and Half-Life: Opposing force which enchanced the graphics with new 3D models. Urban Dictionary

An excuse to talk your way out of a ticket for running a red light. Unfortunately, your speeding ticket will be astronomical. (If you don't get it, you're probably not going to get it. Maybe look it up in a real dictionary first). Urban Dictionary

N. The political change of the United States in favor of liberalism. (this makes reference to the red states being pro-GOP, and the Blue, pro-Dems) See Red Shift Urban Dictionary

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The word "blue-shift" in example sentences

The blue-shift died, and the ship's light reddened as the Enterprise accelerated away from it. ❋ VONDA N.MCINTYRE (1990)

How voters split on R-71, with blue-shift in favor and pink-shift opposed ❋ Unknown (2009)

Furthermore, the maximum emission intensity presents a progressive blue-shift with the increase of laser power, indicating that more intense light can result in a faster increase of PE emission. ❋ Unknown (2008)

− 2, PBsome core fluorescence exhibited successive reduction of fluorescence intensity with a minor blue-shift. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Red shift] is more common than [blue shift] because most objects in our expaning [universe] are moving away from us. ❋ OneBadAsp (2006)

1. There is a blue [shift in] [washington] going on 2. I just got Blue Shift and the [high def] pack. ❋ Gothrocker0207 (2005)

Officer: May I see your license and [registration] sir? * you hand him the materials * Officer: Do you realize that you were speeding and ran a red light? You: Well, I'll admit to speeding but I'm not sure about the red light. Officer: It sure looked red to me! You: Not to me! Maybe I was going fast enough such that the [blue shift] rendered the... what I'm assuming was a red light... Blue! (or more conservatively, yellow). Officer: I suppose [it's all relative]. You: Exactly. ❋ Ephoph (2010)

[FDR] marked a long period of Blue Shift. He won four [elections], and created the liberal/'liberal' media, depending on your opinion, and at his death, nearly all of the federal [judges] in the supreme and apellate judges were appointed by him. ❋ Aktopus (2004)

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