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# hue

noun (a hue, hues)

«hue» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A colour or shade of a colour. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#m2)
3. «hue and cry» — a loud noisy protest (old phrase). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#m3)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x1)
- Mix blue and yellow to get a green hue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x2)
- The leaves change hue in autumn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x3)
- The rainbow has seven main hues. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x4)
- Her cheeks took on a rosy hue. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/#x6)
- The woods glow with hues of red and gold and brown. [tree →](https://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».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hue» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hue/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hue» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hue.html) on Mova free.