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hue

1[hyoo or, often, yoo]
–noun
1. a gradation or variety of a color; tint: pale hues.
2. the property of light by which the color of an object is classified as red, blue, green, or yellow in reference to the spectrum.
3. color: all the hues of the rainbow.
4. form or appearance.
5. complexion.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME hewe, OE hīw form, appearance, color; c. ON hȳ bird's down, Sw hy skin, complexion, Goth hiwi form, appearance; akin to OE hār gray (see hoar )


hueless, adjective
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hue

2[hyoo]
–noun
outcry, as of pursuers; clamor.

Origin:
1200–50; ME hu(e) < MF: a hoot, outcry (whence huer to hoot, cry out)

Hué

[hwey]
–noun
a seaport in central Vietnam: former capital of Annam. 200,000.
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hue   (hyōō)   
n.  
  1. The property of colors by which they can be perceived as ranging from red through yellow, green, and blue, as determined by the dominant wavelength of the light. See Table at color.

  2. A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint.

  3. Color: all the hues of the rainbow.

  4. Appearance; aspect: a man of somber hue.


[Middle English, color, form, from Old English hīw, hēo.]
Hue   (hyōō-ā', hwā)   
A city of central Vietnam near the South China Sea northwest of Da Nang. An ancient Annamese city probably dating from the third century A.D., it was nearly destroyed during heavy fighting in the Vietnam War but has since been rebuilt. Population: 287,000.
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Word Origin & History

hue  (1)
"color," O.E. hiw "color, form, appearance, beauty," earlier hiow, heow, from P.Gmc. *khiwjan (cf. O.N. hy "bird's down," Swed. hy "skin, complexion," Goth. hiwi "form, appearance"), probably cognate with Skt. chawi "hide, skin, complexion, color, beauty, splendor." A common word in O.E., squeezed into obscurity after c.1600 by color.

hue  (2)
"a shouting," c.1250, from O.Fr. hue "outcry, noise, war or hunting cry," probably of imitative origin. Hue and cry is 1292 as an Anglo-Fr. legal term meaning "outcry calling for pursuit of a felon." Extended sense of "cry of alarm" is 1584.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: hue
Pronunciation: 'hyü
Function: noun
: the one of the three psychological dimensions of color perception that permits them to beclassified as red, yellow, green, blue, or an intermediate between any contiguous pair of these colors and that is correlated with the wavelength or the combination of wavelengths comprising thestimulus —compare BRIGHTNESS, SATURATION 4a
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Science Dictionary
hue   (hy)  Pronunciation Key 
The property of colors by which they are seen as ranging from red through orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, as determined by the dominant wavelength of the light. Compare saturation, value.
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Computing Dictionary

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(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)

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