Tint

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation.
  • n. A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation.
  • n. A slight coloration; a tinge.
  • n. A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace.
  • n. A shaded effect in engraving produced by fine, close, parallel lines.
  • n. Printing A panel of light color on which matter in another color is to be printed, as in an illustration.
  • n. A dye for the hair.
  • v. To give a tint to or take on a tint.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A slight coloring
  • n. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
  • 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. to shade, to color
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A slight coloring.
  • n. A pale or faint tinge of any color.
  • n. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
  • n. A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
  • v. To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • A Scotch preterit of tine.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. color lightly
  • n. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
  • Verb Form
    tinted    tinting    tints   
    Form
    tinted    tinting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tinge    color    shade    tincture    tinct    tone    cast    nuance   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Clint    Flint    Schwindt    clint    dint    flint    glint    hint    imprint    lint   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hue    tinge    complexion    coloring    haze    sheen    shade    radiance    bloom    streak