#Hue and cry origin and meaning series#

José de Carvajal y Hué (1835-1899), Spanish lawyer, economist, writer and politician Jermaine Hue (born 1978), Jamaican footballer Notable people with the name include:Īrmand Thomas Hue de Miromesnil (1723-1796), French government ministerĬlement Hue (1778 or 1779–1861), British physicianĭouglas Sang Hue (born 1931), Jamaican cricket umpire Hue is a surname and given name and occasionally a nickname. Hues are first processed in the brain in areas in the extended V4 called globs. In painting color theory, a hue refers to a pure color-one without tint or shade (added white or black pigment, respectively). Exceptions include brown, which is a dark orange, and pink, a light red with reduced chroma. Usually, colors with the same hue are distinguished with adjectives referring to their lightness and/or colorfulness, such as with 'light blue', 'pastel blue', 'vivid blue'. The other color appearance parameters are colorfulness, chroma, saturation, lightness, and brightness. Orange and violet (purple) are the other hues, for a total of six, as in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. Hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically (in the CIECAM02 model), as 'the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow' (the unique hues). Healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and (Plant Physiol.) The condition of normal balance of a She was dressed in a soft cloth of a gray tone. Gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade. The more or less variable complex of emotion accompanyingĪnd characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state as,Ĭolor quality proper - called also hue. (Physiol.) Quality, with respect to attendant feeling The case of a painting - commonly used in a favorable

The general effect of a picture produced by theĬombination of light and shade, together with color in Low as, a low tone of morals a tone of elevated Manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, Tenor character spirit drift as, the tone of his Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing. from a philosophical tone or temper, to the The strange situation I am in and the melancholy Note: In this sense, the word is metaphorically applied toĬharacter or faculties, intellectual and moral as, his Parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and (Med.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or Produced by the simultaneous sounding of two or more Tartini's tones (terms only in part synonymous) are Resultant tones,Ĭombination tones, summation tones, difference tones, Intensity of those present as compared with theįundamental tone and with one another. This series, and in part to the greater or less The presence or absence of overtones as represented in Quality of any sound (the tone color) is due in part to

#Hue and cry origin and meaning series#

Numbers in the series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. Sound are expressed by all, or by a part, of the Vibration ratios of the partial tones composing any

Partial tones are called harmonics, or overtones. Of vibration is the fundamental tone, and the other The components (of a composite sound) areĬalled partial tones that one having the lowest rate The nature of the vibrating body and the mode ofĮxcitation. Vibration according to fixed laws, which depend upon Several simultaneous tones having different rates of Note: Nearly every musical sound is composite, consisting of Interval between two sounds or tones, is confusing, but Note: The use of the word tone, both for a sound and for the Instrument as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.Ī mode or tune or plain chant as, the Gregorian The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or Semitone as, a whole tone too flat raise it a tone. In the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds Measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice Ī sound considered as to pitch as, the seven tones of (Rhet.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice,Īs adapted to express emotion or passion.Įager his tone, and ardent were his eyes.Ī whining style of speaking a kind of mournful orĪrtificial strain of voice an affected speaking with a Tones that with seraph hymns might blend.

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound consideredĪs of this or that character as, a low, high, loud, Pitch, accent, measure or meter, in pl., modes or keysĭiffering in pitch akin to tei`nein to stretch or strain. to`nos a stretching, straining, raising of the voice,