| 单词 | colour tone |
| 释义 | > as lemmascolour tone colour tone n. (a) a shade of a colour, esp. one having a particular quality of brightness, deepness, or hue, or producing a particular effect within a picture or other image; (as a mass noun) the distinctive qualities or visual effect of a shade of colour; (b) Psychology the purity or intensity of a perceived colour (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [noun] > shade or tone shadowing1580 shade1690 key1713 nuance1823 colour tone1853 colour value1857 hue1857 neutral1859 shadow-script1898 value1902 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > general effect or scheme colour1661 colouring1706 natural colour1720 coloration1778 palette1782 tonality1866 scheme1884 colour tone1896 1853 E. S. Sheppard Charles Auchester III. iii. vi. 194 The white and boundless ray of which all beams, all colour-tones, are born. 1875 tr. H. W. Vogel Chem. Light & Photogr. vii. 60 The small number of the colour-tones compared with the large number of musical tones is very striking. 1895 E. B. Titchener in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 7 81 Farbenton, color-tone. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 18 Nov. 7/3 New designs produced in three styles of colour-tone, and black and white. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 2/1 Scarlet hips..a flaming colour-tone in the grey-green of the fading hedgerow. 1937 Discovery July 216/1 The nature of light-sensation, colour-tone, colour-blindness. 1944 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 8 103 All embroidered in gold or silver thread, with slight differences in color tones achieved by using threads of contrasting colors to secure the heavier metallic thread. 1999 Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair: 1999 Handbk. 237/3 In this medium, colour tones are created by overprinting a series of separated simple colours. < as lemmas |
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