tint
a color or a variety of a color; hue.
a color diluted with white; a color of less than maximum purity, chromo, or saturation.
a delicate or pale color.
any of various commercial dyes for the hair.
Engraving. a uniform shading, as that produced by a series of fine parallel lines.
Also called tint block .Printing. a faintly or lightly colored background upon which an illustration or the like is to be printed.
to apply a tint or tints to; color slightly or delicately; tinge.
Origin of tint
1Other words from tint
- non·tint·ed, adjective
- o·ver·tint, verb
- o·ver·tint, noun
- re·tint, verb (used with object)
- un·tint·ed, adjective
- well-tinted, adjective
Words that may be confused with tint
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How to use tint in a sentence
Why should certain chords in music make me think of the brown and golden tints of autumn foliage?
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTColorful tints, eye-catching graphics and mouth-watering images combined and voila, the menu was born!
Other jewelers are said to shout, “Benvenuto is the glory of our art, and before his tints we must duly bare our heads.”
GNL loses one for the ugh quality of its sans serif supered on sickly green and gray tints.
It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine Clement
Many adults, it is said, hardly have a rudiment of this feeling, pairing the most fiercely antagonistic tints.
Children's Ways | James SullyThe colours of the rainbow shone there in pale tints, and the flaring sunshine could not enter.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin | Mary Hazelton WadeIt was the color of her skin, without the glow, the myriad living tints that one may sometimes discover in vibrant flesh.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinWhen he opened his eyes he found himself in a grotto whose crystal columns reflected the delicate tints of the rainbow.
Honey-Bee | Anatole France
British Dictionary definitions for tint
/ (tɪnt) /
a shade of a colour, esp a pale one
a colour that is softened or desaturated by the addition of white
a tinge
a semipermanent dye for the hair
a trace or hint: a tint of jealousy in his voice
engraving uniform shading, produced esp by hatching
printing a panel of colour serving as a background to letters or other matter
(tr) to colour or tinge
(tr) to change or influence slightly: his answer was tinted by his prior knowledge
(intr) to acquire a tint
Origin of tint
1Derived forms of tint
- tinter, noun
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