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Tint
Definitions
- 1 it is not; it isn't Yorkshire, colloquial, contraction
- 1 A slight coloring.
- 2 a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color wordnet
- 3 A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
- 4 a just detectable amount wordnet
- 5 A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
"Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints."
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- 6 a dye for coloring the hair wordnet
- 7 A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
- 8 A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant. informal
"About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot."
- 1 To shade, to color. intransitive, transitive
"The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise."
- 2 color lightly wordnet
Etymology
Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.
Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.
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