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Tinged

Definition: Tinged

Tinged

Adjective

1. Being colored slightly; sometimes used in combination; "white petals touched with pink"; "the resplendent sun-touched flag"; "pink-tinged apple blossoms".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tinged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

 

Synonym: Tinged

Synonym: touched (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tinged

English words defined with "tinged": apricot, aqua, aquamarine, argentbittersweet, blue, blue-green, blueish, bluish, bluish greenchartreuse, cobalt bluegreat-leaved macrophylla, Greengill, greenish blue, greenish yellowheartseaseKakatoe leadbeaterilarge-leaved cucumber tree, large-leaved magnolia, lead tree, Leucaena glauca, Leucaena leucocephala, Listera ovataMagnolia macrophyllaNierembergia repens, Nierembergia rivularisolive brown, orange yellowParis green, pea green, peach, peacock blue, Pine grosbeak, pink cockatoo, Polar bear, Polyhalite, potato vine, Prairie snake, purplish bluereddish purple, royal blue, royal purple, Rufescentsaffron, salmon pink, Sanguinolent, silver, silverish, silvery, Solanum jasmoides, swamp honeysuckleteal, Tempering color, Tomato gall, turquoise, twayblade, two-eyed violetViola ocellataWedge-tailed gull, white camas, white popinac, whitecupyellow green, yellowish green, yellowish pinkZemni, Zigadenus glaucus. (references)
Specialty definitions using "tinged": earth shadow, earth umbra, earth's shadow, erythropia, erythropsiaglorkHimiltrudeoff whitered vision. (references)
Etymologies containing "tinged": Tinto. (references)

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Photo Album: Tinged

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On the border between Chile and the Catamarca province of Argentina lies a vast field of currently dormant volcanoes. Over time, these volcanoes have laid down a crust of magma roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) thick. It is tinged with a patina of various colors that can indicate both the age and mineral content of the original lava flows. Credit: NASA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Tinged

AuthorQuotation

Vance Packard

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Tinged

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

If it had lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and life

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tinged

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Belgium

Its ultra-nationalistic philosophy and anti-immigration positions are often tinged with xenophobia and racism. (references)

Political Economy

Nepal

On economic issues, the party favors a liberal, market-oriented approach, though one occasionally tinged by populist measures. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

The FPI, the party of current president Laurent Gbagbo, is a moderate party tinged with socialism but more concerned with democratic reform than radical economic change. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tinged

"Tinged" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 79.41% of the time. "Tinged" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)79.41%8136,835
Lexical Verb (past tense)17.65%1882,615
Adjective (general or positive)2.94%3202,518
                    Total100.00%102N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Tinged

Expressions using "tinged": touched tinged words tinged with melancholy. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "tinged": pink-tinged, red-tinged, yellow-tinged.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tinged

Language Translations for "tinged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏ملون تلونيا خفيفا, ‏مخضب (dyed, pigmental). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

着色 (Coloration, Coloring, colouring, Pigmented). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vivahtaa (be tinged with, have a shade of), punertava (reddish, tinged with red), kellertävä (tinged with yellow, yellowish), kellertää (be tinged with yellow). (various references)

   

French

  

teinté (tinted). (various references)

   

German

  

gefärbt (artificially colored, biased, coloured, dyed, slanted, tinted), tönte. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

藍色掛かった"地 (cloth tinged with indigo), 色めく (to be stirred, to be tinged, to become excited, to brighten, to colour, to grow lively), 赤味が差している (to be tinged red), 赤味'帯びた (reddish, tinged with red), 滑稽味が有る (tinged with humor), 帯びる (to be entrusted, to be tinged with, to carry, to have, to have a trace of, to take on, to wear). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おびる (to be entrusted, to be tinged with, to carry, to have, to have a trace of, to put on, to take on, to wear), いろめく (to be stirred, to be tinged, to become excited, to brighten, to colour, to grow lively), "っけいみがある (tinged with humor), あかみがさしている (to be tinged red), あかみ'おびた (reddish, tinged with red), あいいろがかったきじ (cloth tinged with indigo). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

착색하" (Colored, coloured). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingedtay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

cuvinte cu o nuanţã de melancolie (words tinged with melancholy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

färgad (colored, coloured). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tinged

Derivations

Words ending with "tinged": untinged. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Tinged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atengdem, tenge, tengel, thinged, tiege, tiged, tiget, tigne, Tignet, Timgad, tingel, tingey, tingued, Tlingit, tonged, tunge, tunged, tynge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tinged"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "tinged" (pronounced ti"ngd)
3-i" ng dringed, stringed, winged.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Tinged

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nidget.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-t"

-1 letter: deign, dinge, teind, tined, tinge.

-2 letters: deni, dent, diet, dine, ding, dint, dite, edit, gent, gied, gien, nide, nite, tend, tide, tied, tine, ting.

-3 letters: den, die, dig, din, dit, end, eng, ged, gen, get, gid, gie, gin, git, net, nit, ted, teg, ten, tie, tin.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, et, id, in, it.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-t"
 

+1 letter: denting, dieting, editing, glinted, ignited, ingoted, nidgets, tedding, tending, tingled, twinged.

 

+2 letters: betiding, debating, debiting, debuting, delating, deleting, demoting, denoting, deputing, derating, detoxing, devoting, diligent, dingiest, duetting, dungiest, enditing, gradient, ideating, indagate, indigent, ingested, knighted, redating, sedating, signeted, steading, stringed, treading, trending, ungifted, untinged.

 

+3 letters: advecting, adverting, astringed, attending, benighted, budgeting, coediting, crediting, decanting, decocting, deducting, defatting, defeating, defecting, deflating, degusting, dehorting, dejecting, delisting, demasting, dementing, demitting, denigrate, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, deratting, desalting, deserting, designate, desisting, despiting, destining, detaching, detailing, detaining, detecting, deterging, deterring, detesting, deticking, detouring, detruding, devesting, deviating, digenetic, digesting, digestion, dignities, directing, distingue, dithering, divergent, diverting, divesting, docketing, educating, extending, extruding, fidgeting, geminated, glistened, gradients, gratineed, indagated, indagates, indenting, indigents, indulgent, ingrafted, integrand, intending, intrigued, lightened, longitude, magnitude, mediating, navigated, negatived, negritude, nightside, outdesign, outgained, paginated, pigmented, predating, redacting, redingote, reediting, reignited, retarding, steadings, steadying, tendering, threading, tightened, tragedian, treadling, treddling, tweedling, undergirt, unsighted, vignetted.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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