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Hue : (noun)
1: the quality of a color as determined by its dominant
wavelength [syn: chromaticity]
(verb)
1: take on color or become colored; "In highlights it hued to a
dull silver-grey"
2: suffuse with color [syn: imbue, tinge]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Tone \Tone\, n.
1. (Physiol.) Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the
more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and
characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as,
feeling tone; color tone.
2. Color quality proper; -- called also hue. Also, a
gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade.
She was dressed in a soft cloth of a gray tone.
--Sir G.
Parker.
3. (Plant Physiol.) The condition of normal balance of a
healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and
moisture.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hue : \Hue\, n. [OE. hew, heow, color, shape, form, AS. hiw, heow;
akin to Sw. hy skin, complexion, Goth. hiwi form,
appearance.]
1. Color or shade of color; tint; dye. ``Flowers of all
hue.'' --Milton.
Hues of the rich unfolding morn. --Keble.
2. (Painting) A predominant shade in a composition of primary
colors; a primary color modified by combination with
others.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hue : \Hue\, n. [OE. hue, huer, to hoot, shout, prob. fr. OF. hu
an exclamation.]
A shouting or vociferation.
Hue and cry (Law), a loud outcry with which felons were
anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were obliged
to take up, joining in the pursuit till the malefactor was
taken; in later usage, a written proclamation issued on
the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all persons
to aid in retaking him. --Burrill.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hue :
(Or "tint") The coordinate in the HSB colour
model that determines the frequency of light or the position
in the spectrum or the relative amounts of red, green and
blue. Hue corresponds to the common definition of colour,
e.g. "red", "orange", "violet" etc. The other coordinates are
saturation and brightness.
(1999-07-05)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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