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Definition: Tinged |
TingedAdjective1. 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: TingedSynonym: touched (adj). (additional references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | 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. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Vance Packard | Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 79.41% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 17.65% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.94% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 102 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tinged": untinged. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tinged" (pronounced ti"ngd) |
| 3 | -i" ng d | ringed, stringed, winged. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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