Meaning of hue | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
   countable, uncountable
2. A port city in central Vietnam.
3. A shout or cry.
   obsolete
4. A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.
5. The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
   countable, uncountable
6. A character; aspect.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
7. Form; appearance; guise.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

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

“The shallowness of the Perfume River, which runs through Huế, and the shifting sandbars at its mouth precluded oceangoing vessels from sailing up the river as far as Huế.”

“Rice thus needed to be transported to the capital Huế for distribution to the northernmost part of the country, but organizing a convoy was not easy. […] But the rice traffic was so vital to Huế’s economy that the Nguyễn ordered boat owners to transport rice to Thuận Hóa twice a year up to 1714; […]”

“My grandmother was a great entrepreneur; in order to support her family, she opened up her front room to sell bún bò huế, the best noodle soup I have ever eaten. It originates from Huế (the city of temples, emperor’s palaces and dynasties in central Vietnam) and is spicy, bold and invigorating.”

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

“Trouble had been brewing for some time, and it burst into the open in the ancient capital city of Hué on May 8, 1963. On that day 8,000 to 10,000 Buddhists marched in protest against a government order banning parades and the display of Buddhist flags on Buddha's birthday.”

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