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# hue

«hue» in Mova's school dictionary: **A colour or shade of a colour** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a hue, hues)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A colour or shade of a colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#m1)

2) (formal) A kind or type, as in «people of every political hue». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#m2)

3) «hue and cry» — a loud noisy protest (old phrase). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In art lessons pupils mix paints to get different hues. In science, the colours of the rainbow are hues. In stories it is a rich way of saying colour: «the golden hue of sunset». Phrases: a reddish hue, every hue.

### examples

- The sky turned a pink hue at sunset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x1)
- Mix blue and yellow to get a green hue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x2)
- The leaves change hue in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x3)
- The rainbow has seven main hues. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x4)
- Her cheeks took on a rosy hue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x5)
- There was a great hue and cry when the park was closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x6)
- The woods glow with hues of red and gold and brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x7)

### note

Countable. Homophone: «hew» (to chop) and «Hugh» (a name) sound the same. More formal than «colour»; in everyday talk say «colour» or «shade».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hue» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.