Tint
[tɪnt]
Definition
(verb.) color lightly; 'her greying hair was tinged blond'; 'the leaves were tinged red in November'.
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Definition
(n.) A slight coloring.
(n.) A pale or faint tinge of any color.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
(v. t.) To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tinge, color, hue, tincture, stain, dye, shade, grain.
v. a. Dye, stain, TINGE.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Color, hue, tinge, dye, complexion
ANT:Achromatism, decoloration, paleness, pallor, bleaching, etiolation,colorlessness, sallowness, wanness, cadaverousness, exsanguineousness
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Definition
n. a slight tinge distinct from the principal colour: a series of parallel lines in engraving producing a uniform shading.—v.t. to give a slight colouring to.—ns. Tin′tage the colouring or shading of anything; Tint′-block a surface prepared for printing a background; Tint′-draw′ing drawing in a wash of uniform tint; Tin′ter one who or that which tints: a special kind of slide used with the magic-lantern to give moonlight effects &c.; Tin′tiness state of being tinty; Tin′ting the method of producing a uniform shading.—adj. Tint′less having no tint or colour.—ns. Tintom′eter an appliance for determining tints; Tint′-tool an implement for producing a tint by parallel lines.—adj. Tin′ty inharmoniously tinted.
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Examples
- From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Your face is nothing to boast of, certainly--not a pretty line nor a pretty tint to be found therein. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The tint is pleasing, and warms up the landscape. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The observer holds this up between himself and the sky, turning it gradually round till he finds the tint of the instrument exactly corresponding to the tint of the sky. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What is this by itself in a wood no longer green, no longer even russet, a wood neutral tint--this dark blue moving object? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But I had not done with it yet; and other memoranda were destined to be set down in characters of tint indelible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Between these snow-white pillars hung heavy curtains of azure tint, embroidered with bizarre figures in yellow silk. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- White pearls include pure white and white slightly tinted with pink, blue, green or yellow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He rummaged in his coat pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted paper, he laid it out upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Our rooms were large, comfortably furnished, and even had their floors clothed with soft, cheerful-tinted carpets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Thus the southern shores of America, Australia, and New Zealand may have become slightly tinted by the same peculiar forms of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- No answer; only the brown eyes filled, the faintly-tinted lips trembled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the foreground glowed the warm tints of the gardens. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Newton in the next century, with the prism, decomposed light, and in a darkened chamber reproduced all the colours and tints of the rainbow. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Helena had evidently inoculated her father's subjects with a love for flowers, as on every side the eye was dazzled with a profusion of bright tints. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It blushed so ruddily and vividly, that the hues of the walls and the variegated tints of the dresses seemed all fused in one warm glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Endurance and despair, equanimity and gloom, the tints of health and the pallor of death, mingled weirdly in his face. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- No more deep blue skies or crimson and amber tints. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The world wore a North Pole colouring; all its lights and tints looked like the _reflets_[A] of white, or violet, or pale green gems. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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