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tint

   [tint]
noun
1.
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
2.
a color diluted with white; a color of less than maximum purity, chromo, or saturation.
3.
a delicate or pale color.
4.
any of various commercial dyes for the hair.
5.
Engraving. a uniform shading, as that produced by a series of fine parallel lines.
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6.
Also called tint block. Printing. a faintly or lightly colored background upon which an illustration or the like is to be printed.
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verb (used with object)
7.
to apply a tint or tints to; color slightly or delicately; tinge.

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Origin:
1710–20; variant of tinct

Related forms
non·tint·ed, adjective
o·ver·tint, verb
o·ver·tint, noun
re·tint, verb (used with object)
un·tint·ed, adjective
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well-tint·ed, adjective
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Can be confused: color, hue, shade, tint (see synonym note at shade).
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tint (tɪnt)
 
—n
1.  a shade of a colour, esp a pale one
2.  a colour that is softened or desaturated by the addition of white
3.  a tinge
4.  a semipermanent dye for the hair
5.  a trace or hint: a tint of jealousy in his voice
6.  engraving uniform shading, produced esp by hatching
7.  printing a panel of colour serving as a background to letters or other matter
 
—vb
8.  (tr) to colour or tinge
9.  (tr) to change or influence slightly: his answer was tinted by his prior knowledge
10.  (intr) to acquire a tint
 
[C18: from earlier tinct]
 
'tinter
 
—n

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tint
"color," 1717, alteration of tinct (c.1600), from L. tinctus "a dyeing," from tingere "to dye" (see tincture); influenced by It. tinta "tint, hue," from L. tinctus. The verb is attested from 1756 (implied in tinted).
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TINT definition


Interpreted version of JOVIAL.
[Sammet 1969, p. 528].

tint definition


hue

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org
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