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Rainbow vs Hue - What's the difference?

rainbow | hue |

As nouns the difference between rainbow and hue

is that rainbow is a multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air while hue is form; appearance; guise.

As an adjective rainbow

is multicoloured.

As a verb rainbow

is to pattern with many colours, like a rainbow.

As a proper noun Hue is

a notable port city in central Vietnam.

rainbow

English

(wikipedia rainbow)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
  • Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
  • A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
    • ''a rainbow of possibilities
  • (label) An illusion, mirage.
    • ''Many electoral promises are rainbows , vanishing soon after poll day.
  • (baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
  • (poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.

    • Quotations

    * 1911 , Francis R. Steel, Catching the Rainbow Trout'', in ''The Outing Magazine , volume 58, page 482: *: Finally, by actual trial, I have found that I can catch more rainbow by using one fly than with a two or three-fly cast. * 1994 , John Simon, Of Dogs, Their Masters, and Others'', in ''New York magazine, September 5 1994, page 51: *: That Asian-American actor Thomas Ikeda contributes a pleasingly frantic Panthino would not be considered rainbow enough.

    Synonyms

    * (prismatic reflection) spectrum

    Derived terms

    * chase rainbows * end of the rainbow * lunar rainbow * marine rainbow * rainbow coalition * rainbow fish * rainbow perch * rainbow runner * rainbow trout * rainbow wrasse * somewhere over the rainbow * supernumerary rainbow

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Multicoloured.
  • (attributive, chiefly, US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
  • * 2006 , Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan, Sinatra: The Life , page 246:
    • He went along with them because the Pack was a rainbow group — two Italian-Americans, a black man, a Jew (Bishop), and a sometime Englishman (Lawford) — and they were making a point.
  • * 2007 , Melissa Haussman, Birgit Sauer, Gendering the state in the age of globalization , page 67:
    • The 1999 June elections led to a surprise change in the governing coalition from the long-term ruling Christian Democrats to a rainbow group of Greens, Liberals, and Socialists.
  • * 2007 , Hooson, in a Letter to the Western Mail, 19 June 2007, published in Crossing the Rubicon: coalition politics Welsh style by John Osmond, page 28:
    • [...] it seemed to me to be naive indeed for the Liberal Democrats to believe that they could simply enter into a rainbow alliance against the Labour Government.
  • * 2008 , Bidyut Chakrabarty, Indian politics and society since independence , page 76:
    • Mayawati has succeeded in building a social coalition that inverts the pyramid of caste/class hierarchy by building a rainbow alliance of social groups, now dominated by that greatest underclass of all, namely Dalits.
  • (attributive) LGBT.
  • * 2005 , Alan McKee, The public sphere: an introduction , page 167:
    • Similarly, the question of who belongs in such a rainbow alliance isn't set. It can include gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. It can include people who are 'questioning' which culture they belong to [...]
  • (poker, chiefly, of a flop) Composed]] entirely of different [[suit#Noun, suits.

    • Usage notes

    In the United States, 'rainbow' groups/families/alliances/coalitions were originally those made up of several races or ethnicities. The term is now used more broadly, to refer (in the 2007 quotation, for example) to an alliance of several political parties.

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pattern with many colours, like a rainbow.

    • hue

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hewe, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.
  • A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
  • * 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
    • 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.
  • The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
    • In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
  • (figuratively) A character; aspect.
    • Derived terms
    * hued

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hu, a hunting cry.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A shout or cry.
    • Derived terms
    * hue and cry

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