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Tinge   /tɪndʒ/   Listen
noun
Tinge  n.  A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste. "His notions, too, respecting the government of the state, took a tinge from his notions respecting the government of the church."



verb
Tinge  v. t.  (past & past part. tinged; pres. part. tinging or tingeing)  To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron. "His (Sir Roger's) virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance."
Synonyms: To color; dye; stain.






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"Tinge" Quotes from Famous Books



... I may have a fresh tinge of the olive. But I am just from sea, sir, and that may have given me ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... (the gizzard, the heart, and the liver) proceed as follows: Separate the gall bladder from the liver, cutting off any portion of the liver that may have a greenish tinge. Remove the thin membrane, the arteries, the veins and the clotted blood around the heart. Cut the fat and the membranes from the gizzard. Make a gash through the thickest part of the gizzard as far as the inner lining, being ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... that it has a sharp and medical taste; from what secret bed of metal it comes I do not know, but it must be a bed of great extent, for, though the spring runs thus, day by day and year by year, feeding its waters with the bitter mineral over which it passes, it never loses its tinge; and the oldest tradition of the place is that it was even ...
— The Thread of Gold • Arthur Christopher Benson

... a young lady of singular beauty, which the plain signs of violent grief and anxiety very little obscured. Her complexion, of a very delicate ivory tinge, was scarcely marred by the traces of sleeplessness and tears that were nevertheless clear to see. Her eyes were large and black, and her jetty hair had a slight waviness that was the only distinct sign about her of the remote blend of blood ...
— The Red Triangle - Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator • Arthur Morrison

... flags and reeds, and contain numbers of small fish resembling trout, similar to those found in the Lyons and Gascoyne Rivers. A very handsome tree, resembling an ash, grew on the margin, bearing a beautiful white flower, four to five inches across, having on the inside a delicate tinge of yellow, and yielding a sweet scent like violets. Several natives were met in the course of the day, but would not come near us; in one instance, however, we came upon one so suddenly that he had only time ...
— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory


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