hue

CEFRC1

/hjuː/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A particular color or shade of a color.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Character; aspect.

Examples

  • This girl's hair had the red hue of the setting sun.

  • This girl's hair has the red hue of the setting sun.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1

Also pronounced

  • [ç(j)u̟ː]
  • [ç(j)ʉː]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.

  2. A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.

  3. Form; appearance; guise.

More examples

In context

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

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

  • This puts a completely different hue on the matter.

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Origin

noun

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...