hue vs hew
Definitions
noun
- the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength
verb
- take on color or become colored
- suffuse with color
Examples
For Rosenstock-Huessy, the vocative is the condition of dialogue and hence the real condition of a new truth.
Their skin colour, sexuality or hair hue is irrelevant.
There's a reason that those invites a fortunate few received, allowing them to attend the après-opening private reception at the latest, greatest Place To Be, the Feral Cheerleader, are tinctured with a hue you cannot find at Sherwin-Williams.
Definitions
verb
- strike with an axe; cut down, strike
- make or shape as with an axe
Examples
It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level.
The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
Some people believe that Richard III did not murder his nephews and was not the villain he is generally thought to have been.
