hues

Noun (1)

hue (countable and uncountable, plural hues)

1. A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
   • 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...1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 39–40
2. The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
   • In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
3. (figuratively) Character; aspect.
   • This puts a completely different hue on the matter.
4. (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.

Noun (2)

hue (plural hues)

1. (obsolete) A shout or cry.

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