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HUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength
Synonyms:
chromaticity; hue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("hue" is a kind of...):
color property (an attribute of color)
Attribute:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Derivation:
hue (suffuse with color)
hue (take on color or become colored)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suffuse with color
Synonyms:
hue; imbue
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "hue" is one way to...):
color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
hue (the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Take on color or become colored
Example:
In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "hue" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hue"):
pigment (acquire pigment; become colored or imbued)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
hue (the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength)
Context examples:
The hue of a subject's hair or fur.
(Hair Coat Color, NCI Thesaurus)
The hue of her dress was black too; but its fashion was so different from her sister's—so much more flowing and becoming—it looked as stylish as the other's looked puritanical.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Of darkest color; producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue; being the color of coal or carbon.
(Black, NCI Thesaurus)
A table used for interpreting pixels (voxels) to find the correspondence between image intensity values and displayed hues for the particular color scale employed.
(Color Lookup Table, NCI Thesaurus)
Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.
(Pink, NCI Thesaurus)
It is predicted that an astronaut walking on the red soil of the planet could look up to see the southern night sky glow blue, with red and green hues.
(Blue Aurorae in Mars’ Sky Visible to the Naked Eye, NASA)
Analyzing the crystal structure of pigments based on hibonite, a mineral found in meteorites, Subramanian has paved the way for more pigments with vivid hues that are stable, durable and non-toxic.
(Chemists find path to 'new blue' in meteorite minerals, National Science Foundation)
Their hair already betrayed the reddish hue inherited from their mother, the she-wolf; while he alone, in this particular, took after his father.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
What’s more, the perceived greenish hue of faces under LPS light deviates from what might be expected based on the spectrum of the LPS light itself, which gives a yellowish appearance.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue, began, in proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in colour, to effervesce audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapour.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
