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Hue

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Noun

1. chromaticity, hue

the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength

Verb

2. hue

take on color or become colored

Example Sentences:
'In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey'

3. hue, imbue

suffuse with color

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hue

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noun
1. 
the attribute of colour that enables an observer to classify it as red, green, blue, purple, etc, and excludes white, black, and shades of grey
See also colour
2. 
a shade of a colour
3. 
aspect; complexion
a different hue on matters
noun
a port in central Vietnam, on the delta of the Hué River near the South China Sea: former capital of the kingdom of Annam, of French Indochina (1883–1946), and of Central Vietnam (1946–54). Pop: 377 000 (2005 est)

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Hue

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city in central Vietnam, on the South China Sea: pop. 211,000
noun
1.  Obsolete
general appearance; aspect
2. 
color; esp., the distinctive characteristics of a given color that enable it to be assigned a position in the spectrum
3. 
a particular shade or tint of a given color
noun
a shouting; outcry
see also hue and cry

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hue

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A city of central Vietnam near the South China Sea northwest of Da Nang. An ancient Annamese city probably dating from the third century AD, it was nearly destroyed during heavy fighting in the Vietnam War but has since been rebuilt.
n. pl. hues
1. The property of colors by which they can be perceived as ranging from red through yellow, green, blue, and violet, as determined by the dominant wavelengths of the light being reflected, transmitted, or emitted. 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.

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