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Tint   /tɪnt/   Listen
noun
Tint  n.  A slight coloring. Specifically:
(a)
A pale or faint tinge of any color. "Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass." "Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline."
(b)
A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
(c)
(Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
Tint tool (Eng.), a species of graver used for cutting the parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.



verb
Tint  v. t.  (past & past part. tinted; pres. part. tinting)  To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tint" Quotes from Famous Books



... the creamy tint A rose will hold, The whitest rose, in its inmost fold; Not a possible blush; White as an embodied hush; A very rapture of white; A wedlock Of silence and light: White, white as the wonder undefiled Of Eve just wakened in Paradise; Nay, white as ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various

... They do not form into a whole; they do not rise into foregrounds and melt into distances; they do not divide into groups; they do not coalesce into unities; they do not combine into persons; but each particular hue and tint stands by itself, wedged in amid a thousand others upon the vast and flat mosaic, having no intelligence, and conveying no story, any more than the wrong side of some rich tapestry. The little babe stretches out his arms and fingers, as if to grasp or to fathom the many-coloured ...
— The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine - Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin • John Henry Newman

... the golden glory of the sun, the pale rays of the moon and stars, the soft green of meadow and woodland, images of beauty and loveliness, of light and shade, from every object on the earth and in the heavens; but retaining on its own surface not a line or a tint of the millions of rays that have passed through its substance, and remaining to the end the same bit of transparent glass, unchanged, unprofited by the countless changes it ...
— In the School-Room - Chapters in the Philosophy of Education • John S. Hart

... on assiduously with her drawing, and her colour remained a rich tint. But she went on frankly with ...
— The Old Helmet, Volume I • Susan Warner

... hung over the ocean; the sky above our heads was of a grey tint; the water below our feet of the colour of lead. Not a ripple disturbed its mirror-like surface, except when now and then a covey of flying fish leaped forth to escape from their pursuers, or it was clove ...
— In the Wilds of Africa • W.H.G. Kingston


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