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Hue

//hju// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A port city in central Vietnam.

    "Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region."

  2. 2
    A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.
Noun
  1. 1
    A color, or shade of color; tint; dye. countable, uncountable

    "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 marvellous 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."

  2. 2
    A shout or cry. obsolete
  3. 3
    the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength wordnet
  4. 4
    The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. countable, uncountable

    "In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value."

  5. 5
    A character; aspect. countable, figuratively, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Form; appearance; guise. countable, obsolete, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    suffuse with color wordnet
  2. 2
    take on color or become colored wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit श्याव (śyāvá, “brown”).

Etymology 2

From Old French hu or Old French heu, a hunting cry.

Etymology 3

From Vietnamese Huế (化).

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