hue
pronunciation
How to pronounce hue in British English:
UK [hjuː]
How to pronounce hue in American English:
US [hjuː]
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- Noun:
- the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength
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- Verb:
- take on color or become colored
- suffuse with color
Word Origin
- hue (n.1)
- "color," Old English hiw "color, form, appearance, beauty," earlier heow, hiow, from Proto-Germanic *hiwam (cognates: Old Norse hy "bird's down," Swedish hy "skin, complexion," Gothic hiwi "form, appearance"), from PIE *kei-, a color adjective of broad application (cognates: Sanskrit chawi "hide, skin, complexion, color, beauty, splendor," Lithuanian šyvas "white"). A common word in Old English, squeezed into obscurity after c. 1600 by color, but revived 1850s in chemistry and chromatography.
- hue (n.2)
- "a shouting," mid-13c., from Old French hue "outcry, noise, war or hunting cry," probably of imitative origin. Hue and cry is late 13c. as an Anglo-French legal term meaning "outcry calling for pursuit of a felon." Extended sense of "cry of alarm" is 1580s.
Example
- 1. It has a whitish / iridescent hue and has a very high shine property to it .
- 2. This is what gives the blue hue to the clear sky .
- 3. Keep in mind that colors are more than just a hue .
- 4. In the united states and britain , the newest spin on tupperware parties has a golden hue .
- 5. Violet was a dominant colour throughout , a hue already tipped to be a must-have for spring .