5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tone \Tone\, n.
1. (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.
2. 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.
3. (Plant Physiol.) The condition of normal balance of a
healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and
moisture.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
Hues of the rich unfolding morn. --Keble.
2. (Painting) A predominant shade in a composition of primary
colors; a primary color modified by combination with
others
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hue \Hue\, n. [OE. hue, huer, to hoot, shout, prob. fr OF hu
an exclamation.]
A shouting or vociferation.
{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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [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 siver-grey"
2: suffuse with color [syn: {imbue}, {tinge}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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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