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tint - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation.
- noun A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation.
- noun A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace.
- noun A shaded effect in engraving produced by fine, close, parallel lines.
- noun Printing A panel of light color on which matter in another color is to be printed, as in an illustration.
- noun A dye for the hair.
- transitive & intransitive verb To give a tint to or take on a tint.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Scotch preterit of
tine . - noun A variety of a color, especially and properly a luminous variety of low chroma; also, abstractly, the respect in which a color may be varied by more or less admixture of white light, which at once increases the luminosity and diminishes the chroma.
- noun In engraving, a series of parallel lines cut upon a wood block with a tint-tool, so as to produce an even and uniform shading, as in clear skies.
- To apply a tint or tints to; color in a special manner; tinge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
- noun A slight coloring.
- noun A pale or faint tinge of any color.
- noun A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
- noun (Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
- noun (Eng.) a species of graver used for cutting the parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A slight
coloring - noun A
pale orfaint tinge of anycolor ; especially, a variation of a color obtained by addingwhite (contrastshade ) - noun A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of
scarlet are different tints - noun A shaded effect produced by the
juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines - verb transitive, intransitive to
shade , tocolor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb color lightly
- noun a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration of tinct.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Alteration of earlier tinct, from Latin tinctus ("dyed"), past participle of verb tingō ("I tinge").
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Examples
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When you can manage to tint and gradate tenderly with the pencil point, get a good large alphabet, and try to _tint_ the letters into shape with the pencil point.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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So the amber tint is awesome you can see straight to the bottom
Hey I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on polarized fishing glasses. 2009
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A good all around tint is rose or a lighter amber.
Hey I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on polarized fishing glasses. 2009
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A good all around tint is rose or a lighter amber.
Hey I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on polarized fishing glasses. 2009
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The transparency effect of the terminal window looks great and I love the colour (the same effect with the same tint is used for tooltips).
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So the amber tint is awesome you can see straight to the bottom
Hey I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on polarized fishing glasses. 2009
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The placing your figures in half tint is sacrificing them to the landscape, which I acknowledge is beautiful, — but the figures ought to be principal.
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Simply make the measurements in centimeters, choose the thickness and tint from a sample display on the counter, and in a few minutes you have perfect panes.
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Simply make the measurements in centimeters, choose the thickness and tint from a sample display on the counter, and in a few minutes you have perfect panes.
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Simply make the measurements in centimeters, choose the thickness and tint from a sample display on the counter, and in a few minutes you have perfect panes.
Related Words
synonyms (162)
Words with the same meaning
- Munsell chroma
- achromatism
- affect
- apply paint
- bedaub
- bedizen
- begild
- besmear
- brightness
- brush on paint
- burr
- calcimine
- cartoon
- cast
- chalk
- charcoal
- chiseling
- chroma
- chromatic color
- chromaticity
- chromatism
- chromism
- coat
- color
- color balance
- color harmony
- color quality
- color scheme
- colorant
- coloration
- colorimetric quality
- coloring
- complexion
- cool color
- copy
- cover
- crayon
- cross-hatching
- crosshatch
- dab
- dash
- dash off
- daub
- decorator color
- deep-dye
- delineate
- demitint
- depict
- design
- diagram
- dip
- distemper
- doodle
- double-dye
- draft
- draw
- dye
- emblazon
- enamel
- engild
- engravement
- engraving
- etch
- etching
- face
- fast-dye
- fresco
- gem-engraving
- gild
- glass-cutting
- glaze
- gloss
- glyptic
- grain
- graving
- half tint
- hatch
- hatching
- hint
- hue
- illuminate
- imbue
- incision
- influence
- infusion
- ingrain
- inkling
- inscript
- inscription
- intimation
- japan
- key
- lacquer
- lay on color
- lightness
- limn
- line
- lining
- marking
- natural color
- neutral color
- nuance
- paint
- paint a picture
- pallor
- parget
- pencil
- picture
- picturize
- pigment
- pigmentation
- portray
- prime
- purity
- rinse
- saturation
- sauce
- score
- scoring
- scratch
- scratching
- scumble
- seasoning
- shade
- shadow
- shellac
- sketch
- skin color
- slash
- slashing
- slop on paint
- smack
- smear
- soupcon
- spice
- sprinkling
- stain
- stencil
- stipple
- stippling
- suggestion
- suspicion
- taint
- tempering
- thought
- tinct
- tincture
- tinge
- tone
- tooling
- touch
- touch up
- trace
- type-cutting
- undercoat
- undercolor
- value
- varnish
- vestige
- warm color
- wash
- whitewash
myth commented on the word tint
Nothing could be more beautiful than her tints. - Carmilla (1872)
March 14, 2009