Tint Definition

tĭnt
tinted, tints
noun
tints
A delicate or pale color or hue; tinge.
Webster's New World
A color or a shading of a color; esp., a gradation of a color with reference to its mixture with white.
Webster's New World
A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace.
American Heritage
An even shading produced by fine parallel lines.
Webster's New World
A dye for the hair.
Webster's New World
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verb
tinted, tints
To give a tint to or take on a tint.
American Heritage
To give a tint to.
Webster's New World

(intransitive) To shade, to color.

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Other Word Forms of Tint

Noun

Singular:
tint
Plural:
tints

Origin of Tint

  • Alteration of earlier tinct, from Latin tinctus (“dyed"), past participle of verb tingō (“I tinge").

    From Wiktionary

  • Alteration of tinct

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tint Sentence Examples

  • One grain of saffron rubbed to powder with sugar and a little water imparts a distinctly yellow tint to ten gallons of water.

  • The bark of the trunk has the same reddish tint as that of the common larch of Europe.

  • It varies in colour from a light brown in the newest lignites to a pure black, often with a bluish or yellowish tint in the more compact anthracite of the older formations.

  • A blue-green tint shone through the sunlight while frozen waterfalls, hanging from the upstream cliffs, bore a hint of the rust-orange hue from the natural deposits of Red Mountain above.

  • Although new-born fawns are spotted, the adults are in the main uniformly coloured; the general tint of the coat at all seasons being reddish tawny with a more or less marked tendency to grey.

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Words Starting With

TTITIN

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TNTINT

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