(n.) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.
(n.) A shouting or vociferation.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of colour vision (CV) in 65 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), (30 patients had had previous optic neuritis) and 51 controls was carried out with Ishihara's pseudoisochromatic plates (I-test), Farnsworth's panel D-15 test (F-test), and Lanthony's desaturated 15-hue test (L-test).
(2) We studied how much blue, green, or red light had to be added to or subtracted from white to obtain veridical hue perception (blue, green, red, or their complementary colours) at various locations in the temporal visual field.
(3) In Experiment 1, newborns differentiated gray from green, from yellow, and from red: For each of these hues they preferred chromatic-and-gray checkerboards over gray squares matched in mean luminance, even though the luminance of the gray checks was varied systematically over a wide range so as to minimize nonchromatic cues.
(4) Data received was converted to Munsell notation for evaluation of the dimensions of color, i.e., Hue, Chroma, and Value, as related to (1) shade differences, (2) thickness of porcelain, and (3) numbers of firings.
(5) Incidentally, it’s the algae that give the coral its colour; and so when it’s ejected, the coral takes on a ghostly white hue, giving rise to the term “bleaching”.
(6) In the remaining four family members normal retinal and cortical responses were recorded under standard conditions and visual fields and colour vision (FM 100 hue) were also normal.
(7) The width of the neutral zone is estimated by the ranges of hues confused with grey.
(8) What they proved, in unambiguous data, was that the photo-op image of Team GB as a changing nation of many hues was not PR fluff but demographic reality.
(9) Munsell's score of the nail samples treated by glycosylation and heating showed increased hue and saturation but reduced lightness.
(10) It is argued that the differential acuity thresholds for hue and the curvilinear age trend may depend upon the coordination of the accommodation and refractive power of the eye, which are affected by differential growth rates of the lens and the axial length of the eye.
(11) The lectin concanavalin-A does not inhibit the binding of 125I-bFGF to HUE cell-surface receptors, whereas it inhibits bFGF binding to BHK-21 cell-surface FGF receptor.
(12) Stimuli were presented either in hue substitution (replacement of white by a chromatic stimulus of matched luminance) or as increments.
(13) The influence of conjunctiva hue on the clinical evaluation of anemia was tested by three educated non-clinicians, trained for such a purpose, in 219 healthy ambulatory subjects.
(14) Spurred by the development of the Farnsworth 100 hue-test, interest was renewed in the 1950s.
(15) It has been observed--on the basis of performed examinations of the color vision by means of the Farnsworth-Munsell's 100-Hue test--that the general numerical index of the faults is increasing proportionally to the period of employment, i.s.
(16) Our results for the FM 100-hue panel are similar to those reported previously by other investigators.
(17) Pairs of test colors of equal hues and apparent lightnesses and 2 degrees subtense were positioned successively within the pair of complex targets and were judged for relative color saturation.
(18) The colour vision of 50 diabetic patients was examined with two screening tests, Standard Pseudoisochromatic Plates part 2 (SPP 2) and Farnsworth Panel D 15 (Panel D 15) test and with two diagnostic tests, Nagel anomaloscope and Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test.
(19) There was a great hue and cry and everyone came out – but pretty soon the mullahs sabotaged the consensus and it all went quiet again.
(20) Administration of T did not cause any lizards to change hue, whether their color morph was yellow or orange or lacked the facial pigments altogether.
Leer
Definition:
(v. t.) To learn.
(a.) Empty; destitute; wanting
(a.) Empty of contents.
(a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.
(a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.
(n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed.
(n.) The cheek.
(n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance.
(n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.
(v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.
(v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our next priority is to ensure that patients in need of post-operative care and follow-up are flown to our larger MSF projects in Lankien, Nasir and Leer.
(2) They might have been even more shaken had they known that the men in casual clothes handing them these strange, badly set little pamphlets – with their funereal black borders and another death’s head leering at them inside next to the smirking wish “Good luck” – were members of New York’s police forces.
(3) He would think nothing of driving around in his van, leering at girls in school uniforms and shouting abuse after them, said one former partner.
(4) There it’s much less clear who is actually in charge.” NGOs that attempted to stay in Leer despite the fighting could do little for the population.
(5) "Make as much noise as yer like," he continues, leeringly, over the incessant crraaang of the mechanised looms.
(6) Zevon gives a ferocious leer, flashing two rows of evenly spaced, impossibly white teeth.
(7) [The war has] taken a different turn this year.” During April-September government offensives, “at least 1,000 civilians were killed, 1,300 women and girls were raped, and 1,600 women and children were abducted in Leer, Mayendit and Koch counties”, according to estimates in a recent circular to charities working on civilian protection.
(8) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
(9) As we see from the secret cameras, this isn't so much seduction as leering at intoxicated women until they finally relent and reel off a phone number, something that happens with depressing frequency.
(10) As ugly as its stupid sponsored name, this thing's going to leer over the Olympic Park and get in the way of the fine views from this side of the river.
(11) In the latest flare-up of fighting, government forces are pushing towards Machar’s hometown of Leer, in Unity state, which is held by his supporters.
(12) My portfolio was basically the trade-off we made for keeping Wilders quiet,” Leers said.
(13) As frontlines swept through Leer, NGO compounds were looted.
(14) Plenty of women watch sport, plenty of men want to watch women's sport and not just because they want to leer at women in bikinis.
(15) Fears of an attack on Leer led the UN and all the NGOs working in the area to withdraw their staff last week.
(16) At the height of Savilegate, the news became a sort of Imax ghost-train ride in which a bleached gargoyle repeatedly leered at you, a rolling news ticker scrolling under his chin like police incident tape stretched hastily into position.
(17) Much of the task of keeping Wilders onside fell to the experienced Christian Democrat Gerd Leers, a fellow Limburger, in the newly created post of minister for immigration.
(18) A scientific study of the success rate indicates that through IVT, reductions of the probability of relapse are achievable, which far exceed even the effectiveness of re-education carried out with fewer problematical cases (e. g. Leer model).
(19) (It features my floating disembodied head as a leering demon).
(20) I came here from the swamp when I heard they were giving out food,” said Leer resident Thomas Riek Makuei.