Due vs Hue - What's the difference?
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Owed or owing.
Appropriate.
* Gray
Scheduled; expected.
Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
* J. D. Forbes
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.
Deserved acknowledgment.
* {{quote-news, author=Daniel Taylor, title=David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=31 January 2015
, passage=Chelsea, to give them their due , did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.}}
(in plural dues ) A membership fee.
That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
Right; just title or claim.
* Milton
(obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.
A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
(figuratively) A character; aspect.
As an adjective due
is owed or owing.As an adverb due
is (used with compass directions) directly; exactly.As a noun due
is deserved acknowledgment.As a verb hue is
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Adjective
(en adjective)- With dirges due , in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.
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- This effect is due to the attraction of the sun.
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Synonyms
* (owed or owing) needed, owing, to be made, required * (appropriate) * expected, forecast * (having reached the scheduled or natural time) expectedDerived terms
* driving without due care and attention * due date * due to * in due time * taxes due * with all due respectAdverb
(en adverb)- The river runs due north for about a mile.
Noun
(en noun)- Give him his due — he is a good actor.
citation
- He will give the devil his due .
- Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.
- The key of this infernal pit by due I keep.
Derived terms
* give someone his due * give the devil his dueStatistics
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* ----hue
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) hewe, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
- In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.