tint Definition
tint (tint)
noun
- a delicate or pale color or hue; tinge
- a color or a shading of a color; esp., a gradation of a color with reference to its mixture with white
- a dye for the hair
- Engraving an even shading produced by fine parallel lines
- Printing a light-colored background, as for an illustration
Etymology: earlier tinct < L tinctus, a dyeing, dipping < pp. of tingere, to dye, tinge
transitive verb
to give a tint to
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tint
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tint Usage Examples
Object
- visor: It also has an internal movable tinted visor, which is an interesting way round the law.
- moisturizer: Make up should be light tinted moisturizer is a great choice for glowing summer skin.
- spectacle: The amounts they ate compared to me - well I just had to keep my rose tinted spectacles on didn't I!
- glass: He will have to wear tinted glasses for the rest of his life.
- windscreen: The smiling and waving stops, sour angst ridden faces peer straight ahead from behind tinted windshields.
- spec: She was bought with a very effective pair of rose tinted specs.
Adjective modifier
- greenish: It was a fine trout with a greenish tint to its markings and bold, dark yellow spots.
- bluish: Some of the specimens looked almost as tho they had been coated with a dark metal film, while others had a bluish tint.
- sepia: Just pick a special effect like sepia tint, x-ray, bulge or squeeze.
- reddish: There are none of the orange or reddish tints which one finds in many of our Mendip caves.
- yellowish: Males have blue-violet rumps and wings, while hens have a yellowish tint to their faces.
- purple: Tiny flowers appear in April with a purple tint.
Modifies a noun
plate: Image taken using polarized light microscopy with a sensitive tint plate.
Modifying Another Word
lightly: Conversely, you can ' punch up ' lightly tinted expanses with darker or richer accents.
Noun used with modifier
- eyelash: Each stage of an eyelash tint demonstration was recorded in digital format and transferred to CD and the college VLE.
- autumn: Trees blazed like giant flowers in their autumn tints.
- flesh: Warm flesh tints, more especially in a fair complexion are impossible out of doors, except in an evening effect.
- gray: The nearer slopes should also be graded a slight gray tint.
Preposition: of
color: Busy with curb and snaffle reins, head bent, into her oval face a tint of color crept.
Preposition: with
pigment: Break edges color filled with Fynebond resin bulked with fumed silica and tinted with dry powder pigments to tone with the original glaze.

