hue
see also: Hue
Pronunciation
Hue
Etymology
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see also: Hue
Pronunciation
- (British, Canada) IPA: /hjuː/, [ç(j)u̟ː]
- (America) IPA: /hju/, [ç(j)u], /ju/
- (Australia, New Zealand) IPA: /hjʉː/, [ç(j)ʉː]
- (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA: /hɪu̯/
From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew, from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją, from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- or *ḱey- ("grey, dark shade").
Nounhue
- A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
- 1886 January 4, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC ↗:
- A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
- The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
- In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
- (figuratively) A character; aspect.
- (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.
- French: teinte, nuance
- German: Farbton
- Italian: colore, tinta, sfumatura, tonalità, colorazione, ombreggiatura, sfumatura, tratteggio
- Portuguese: matiz, tom, tonalidade, nuança, nuance
- Russian: отте́нок
- Spanish: (of people) color, tono, coloración, (obsolete); (of object) matiz, tono, coloración
From Old French hu or Old French heu, a hunting cry.
Nounhue (plural hues)
Hue
Etymology
From Vietnamese Huế.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈhweɪ/
- A port city in central Vietnam.
- Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region.
- A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.
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