What does "tint" mean?
A slight coloring.
Tint
/tɪnt/ contraction, noun, verb, slang
contraction, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A slight coloring.
- Grammar: tint is listed as contraction, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: shade, achromatism, affect, animal tissue staining.
- Useful contrasts: achromatic color, bleach, colorless.
- Usage evidence: Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?
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Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Verb
- 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
Contraction
- 1 it is not; it isn't Yorkshire, colloquial, contraction
Synonyms
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Example
"Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "tint"?
Common synonyms include: shade, achromatism, affect, animal tissue staining, apply paint, bedaub.
How do you use "tint" in a sentence?
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?
How do you pronounce "tint"?
Pronounced /tɪnt/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
Contraction.