HUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hue mean? 

• HUE (noun)
  The noun HUE has 1 sense:

1. the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength

  Familiarity information: HUE used as a noun is very rare.

• HUE (verb)
  The verb HUE has 2 senses:

1. take on color or become colored

2. suffuse with color

  Familiarity information: HUE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

chromaticity; hue

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)

• HUE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take on color or become colored

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Suffuse with color

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

hue; imbue

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)

 Context examples 

The methane in its atmosphere absorbs the color red, giving Neptune its blue hue.

(Helium-Shrouded Planets May Be Common in Our Galaxy, NASA)

With its swirl of reddish hues, it’s 2-3 times as wide as Earth and is seen by many as a “perpetual hurricane,” with winds peaking at about 400 miles an hour.

(Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source, NASA)

Some of the youngest stars are surrounded by dusty disks of material, which glow with a yellow or red hue.

('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)

I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Under the whiskers, and all unseen, I knew that the skin was taking on a purplish hue.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She was before me, constantly before me, as I travelled, in the same look and hue.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue that are medium to low in lightness and low to moderate in saturation.

(Brown, NCI Thesaurus)

The appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation.

(Color, NCI Thesaurus)

It was the scrape which he had drawn her into on Harriet's account, that gave the deepest hue to his offence.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And the hue of the skin the most perfect that ever I saw.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)