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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hue \Hue\, n. [OE. hew, heow, color, shape, form, AS. hiw, heow;
     akin to Sw. hy skin, complexion, Goth. hiwi form,
     appearance.]
     1. Color or shade of color; tint; dye. "Flowers of all hue."
        --Milton.
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              Hues of the rich unfolding morn.      --Keble.
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     2. (Painting) A predominant shade in a composition of primary
        colors; a primary color modified by combination with
        others.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hue \Hue\, n. [OE. hue, huer, to hoot, shout, prob. fr. OF. hu
     an exclamation.]
     A shouting or vociferation.
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     {Hue and cry} (Law), a loud outcry with which felons were
        anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were obliged
        to take up, joining in the pursuit till the malefactor was
        taken; in later usage, a written proclamation issued on
        the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all persons
        to aid in retaking him. --Burrill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tone \Tone\ (t[=o]n), n. [F. ton, L. tonus a sound, tone, fr.
     Gr. to`nos a stretching, straining, raising of the voice,
     pitch, accent, measure or meter, in pl., modes or keys
     differing in pitch; akin to tei`nein to stretch or strain.
     See {Thin}, and cf. {Monotonous}, {Thunder}, {Ton} fashion,
     {Tune}.]
     1. Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered
        as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud,
        grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
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              [Harmony divine] smooths her charming tones.
                                                    --Milton.
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              Tones that with seraph hymns might blend. --Keble.
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     2. (Rhet.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice,
        as adapted to express emotion or passion.
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              Eager his tone, and ardent were his eyes. --Dryden.
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     3. A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or
        artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a
        measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice;
        as, children often read with a tone.
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     4. (Mus.)
        (a) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of
            the octave; she has good high tones.
        (b) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds
            in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a
            semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
        (c) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or
            instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
        (d) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian
            tones.
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     Note: The use of the word tone, both for a sound and for the
           interval between two sounds or tones, is confusing, but
           is common -- almost universal.
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     Note: Nearly every musical sound is composite, consisting of
           several simultaneous tones having different rates of
           vibration according to fixed laws, which depend upon
           the nature of the vibrating body and the mode of
           excitation. The components (of a composite sound) are
           called partial tones; that one having the lowest rate
           of vibration is the fundamental tone, and the other
           partial tones are called harmonics, or overtones. The
           vibration ratios of the partial tones composing any
           sound are expressed by all, or by a part, of the
           numbers in the series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.; and the
           quality of any sound (the tone color) is due in part to
           the presence or absence of overtones as represented in
           this series, and in part to the greater or less
           intensity of those present as compared with the
           fundamental tone and with one another. Resultant tones,
           combination tones, summation tones, difference tones,
           Tartini's tones (terms only in part synonymous) are
           produced by the simultaneous sounding of two or more
           primary (simple or composite) tones.
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     5. (Med.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or
        parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and
        performed with due vigor.
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     Note: In this sense, the word is metaphorically applied to
           character or faculties, intellectual and moral; as, his
           mind has lost its tone.
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     6. (Physiol.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
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     7. State of mind; temper; mood.
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              The strange situation I am in and the melancholy
              state of public affairs, . . . drag the mind down .
              . . from a philosophical tone or temper, to the
              drudgery of private and public business.
                                                    --Bolingbroke.
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              Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing. --W.
                                                    C. Bryant.
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     8. Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his
        remarks was commendatory.
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     9. General or prevailing character or style, as of morals,
        manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and
        low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated
        sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
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     10. The general effect of a picture produced by the
         combination of light and shade, together with color in
         the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable
         sense; as, this picture has tone.
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     11. (Physiol.) Quality, with respect to attendant feeling;
         the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying
         and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as,
         feeling tone; color tone.
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     12. Color quality proper; -- called also {hue}. Also, a
         gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade.
  
               She was dressed in a soft cloth of a gray tone.
                                                    --Sir G.
                                                    Parker.
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     13. (Plant Physiol.) The condition of normal balance of a
         healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and
         moisture.
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     {Tone color}. (Mus.) see the Note under def. 4, above.
  
     {Tone syllable}, an accented syllable. --M. Stuart.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hue
       n : the quality of a color as determined by its dominant
           wavelength [syn: {chromaticity}]
       v 1: take on color or become colored; "In highlights it hued to a
            dull silver-grey"
       2: suffuse with color [syn: {imbue}, {tinge}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "hue":
     Munsell chroma, achromatism, apply paint, bedaub, bedizen, begild,
     besmear, body-build, brand, brightness, brush on paint, calcimine,
     cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, chroma,
     chromatic color, chromaticity, chromatism, chromism, coat, color,
     color balance, color harmony, color quality, color scheme,
     coloration, colorimetric quality, coloring, complexion,
     composition, constituents, constitution, cool color, cover, crasis,
     dab, daub, decorator color, deep-dye, dharma, diathesis, dip,
     disposition, distemper, double-dye, dye, emblazon, enamel, engild,
     ethos, face, fast-dye, fiber, frame, fresco, genius, gild, glaze,
     gloss, grain, habit, humor, humors, ilk, illuminate, imbue,
     ingrain, japan, key, kind, lacquer, lay on color, lightness,
     makeup, mold, natural color, nature, neutral color, paint, pallor,
     parget, physique, pigment, prime, property, purity, quality,
     saturation, shade, shadow, shellac, skin color, slop on paint,
     smear, somatotype, sort, spirit, stain, stamp, stipple, streak,
     stripe, suchness, system, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor,
     tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, type, undercoat, undercolor,
     value, varnish, vein, warm color, wash, way, whitewash
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  hue
       
           (Or "tint") The coordinate in the {HSB} {colour
          model} that determines the frequency of light or the position
          in the spectrum or the relative amounts of red, green and
          blue.  Hue corresponds to the common definition of colour,
          e.g. "red", "orange", "violet" etc.  The other coordinates are
          {saturation} and {brightness}.
       
          (1999-07-05)
       
       

















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