Tint

Definition: Tint

Tint

Noun

1. A quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted".

Verb

1. Dye with a color.

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

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

Computing

Chemical Industry

Industry

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

Synonyms: Tint

Crosswords: Tint

Dutch (complexion, dye, hue).

Books

• Process, Inc.'s Color Matching Screen Tint Guide (reference)

• Systems science in health care : proceedings of an international conference held in Paris on 5-9 July, 1976 = La science des systèmes dans le domaine de la santé : (travaux de la conférence internationale qui se tint à Paris, du 5 au 9 juillet, 1976) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Tint [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

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High Tech

• Fellowes 48109 Standard 13/15 IN Glare Filter Traditional Tint (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Panasonic MC-V5716 Power Wave Upright Vacuum Cleaner, Blue Tint White (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

The tint is, perhaps, slightly pale

And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "tint": altitude tint ♦ elevation tint ♦ Flat tint ♦ Flesh tint ♦ grey tint ♦ Half tint ♦ have a bluish tint ♦ layer tint ♦ middle tint ♦ neutral tint ♦ orange tint ♦ secondary tint ♦ Tint tool. Additional references.

Beginning with "tint": tint-molecules.

Ending with "tint": colour-tint, Electro-tint, hint-of-tint, under-tint.

Afrikaans

skakering (hue, nuance, shade), kleur (colour, dye). (various references)

Albanian

nuancë (cast, color, colour, nuance, shade, spice, tincture, tinge, undertone), ngjyrim (coloration, colouration, connotation, dyeing, hue, nuance, overtone, shade, tincture, tinge), ngjyrë (color, colour, dye, hue, paint), lyej (anoint, black, color, colour, daub, dye, lubricate, miniate, overspread, paint, retouch, smear, whitewash). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسحة (bit, hue, shade, smack, streak, suggestion, tang, tinge, touch, trace), ‏لون على نحو خفيف, ‏لون خفيف (tinge), ‏لون (color, colour, dapple, paint, shade, stain, suffuse, tinge, variegate), ‏صبغة شعر (dye), ‏صبغ الشعر, ‏أثر (bias, count, echo, effect, give rise to, hint, impress, influence, lead, mark, odor, odour, operate, prefer, repercussion, scent, sink, soupcon, streak, tag, tinge, touch, trace, trail, trait, vestige, work), ‏درجة من درجات لون. (various references)

Bulgarian 

успоредни линии на гравюра, цвят (bloom, blossom, blow, color, coloring, colour, colouring, flower, hue, inflorescence, pick, suit, tone), тон (note, shade, sound, strain, ton, tone, tuna, tuna fish, tunny), оцветявам (color, colour, illuminate, imbrue, mottle, paint, pigment, stain, tincture), окраска (color, coloration, colour, colouration), обагрям (become purple, color, colour, dye, empurple, imbrue, imbue, incarnadine, mantle, parboil, pigment, purple), нюанс (nuance, shade, tincture, tinge, tone), боя (coat, dip, dye, grain, paint, primer, stain), багра (color, colour, suffusion, tinge, tone). (various references)

Chinese 

色彩 . (various references)

Czech

zbarvit (touch), odstín barvy, nádech (savor, tinge), barevnì tónovat. (various references)

Danish

farve (colour, dye, paint). (various references)

Dutch

schakering (hue, nuance, shade), nuancering (hue, nuance, shade), nuance (hue, nuance, shade). (various references)

Esperanto

tinkturo (dye), tinkturi (dye), nuanco (hue, nuance, shade). (various references)

Farsi 

ته رنگ (Tincture, Undertone), سایه ء رنگ , رنگ مختصر, رنگ (Colony, Complexion, Dye, Grain, Hue, Indigo, Paint, Shade, Speckle, Tune), دارای ته رنگ یاسایه رنگ نمودن . (various references)

Finnish

värivivahdus (hue, shade, tinge), sävy (flavour, tone, touch). (various references)

French

teinte (tincture, tinge), nuance (tincture, tinge), teindre. (various references)

German

Ton (accent, atmosphere, audio, chime, clang, clay, hue, intonation, note, nuance, pip, shade, sound, stress, style, tone), Schattierung (hue, nuance, shade, shading, tone), Farbton (hue, shade), Farbe (color, colour, dye, hue, ink, paint, shade, suit). (various references)

Greek 

απόχρωση (hue, nuance, shading, tinge). (various references)

Hebrew 

לצבוע (color, colour, paint, tincture, tinge), גון (color, colour, complexion, hue, nuance, shade, timbre, tinge, tone), צבע (color, colour, dye, hue, paint, tincture). (various references)

Hungarian

színárnyalat (cast, dye, hue, shade, tincture, tone). (various references)

Indonesian

warna (colour, hue, tinge), mengecat (color, paint), cat (dye, paint, tinge). (various references)

Italian

tinta (color, colour, dye, paint, shade). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

色合い (hue, tinge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いろあい (hue, tinge). (various references)

Korean 

담채. (various references)

Manx

scaavreckey, mynghaahaghey (tinge), mynghaah (tinge), bane-ghaah. (various references)

Pig Latin

inttay.(various references)

Portuguese

matiz (cast, hue, iris, nuance, shade, tinge, turn-up). (various references)

Romanian

tentã (hue, shade, tinge), vopsi (coat, color, colour, daub, dye, paint, paint out, stain, stencil, tincture, tinge, whitewash), umbrire (adumbration, shading), nuanţã (cast, color, colour, hue, key, nuance, savor, savour, shade, shadow, tincture, tinge, tone, touch), haşurã (hatch), culoare (color, colour, colouring, dye, flush, hue, relief, straight, tincture, tinge), colora slab, colora (blush, color, colour, dye, exaggerate, flush, paint, stain, tincture, tinge). (various references)

Russian 

тон (color, colour, sound, tinge, tone, tune), краска (color, colour, dye, mascara, paint), оттенок (color, colour, contrast, nuance, savor, savour, shade, shade of, tincture, tinge, tone, touch, undertone), подкрашивать оттенок. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zasenčiti, senka (shade, shadow, silhouette, umbra, umbrage), nijansirati (shade, tinge), nijansa (contrast, hue, nuance, shade, tone), boja (color, colour, dye, hue, marking, paint, pigment, stain, suit, tincture). (various references)

Spanish

teñir (dye, stain, tinge), tinte (can of paint, dry-cleaner, dye, dyeing, dyestuff, hue, tinge), color (color, colour, dye, flush, hue, tail). (various references)

Swedish

färgton (hue, key, tinge, tonality, tone), nyans (hue, nuance, shade, tone). (various references)

Turkish

ton (cast, chord, color, colour, gradation, long ton, manner, metric ton, short ton, ton, tone, tonicity, tonne, value), renk vermek (color, colour, pigment, show), renk (color, coloring, colour, colouring, complexion, dye, flush, hue, tincture), hafifçe boyamak (rinse, tinge), hafif renk (tinge), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind). (various references)

Ukrainian

фон (background, champ, fond, groundwork), фарба (acrylic, color, colour, dipper, dye, paint, suffusion, tincture), глибина тону, відтіняти (outline, show off), забарвлюватися (tinge), підфарбовувати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

màu sắc đường gạch bóng, màu nhẹ. (various references)

Welsh

arlliwio (color, paint), arlliw (shade, trace, varnish). (various references)

tinctus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tint": tinted, tinter, tinters, tinting, tintings, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulation, tintinnabulations, tintless, tints, tintype, tintypes. (additional references)

Words ending with "tint": aquatint, mezzotint, monotint, retint, stint. (additional references)

Words containing "tint": aquatinted, aquatinter, aquatinters, aquatinting, aquatintist, aquatintists, aquatints, mezzotints, monotints, outintrigue, outintrigued, outintrigues, outintriguing, retinted, retinting, retints, stinted, stinter, stinters, stinting, stints, unstinted, unstinting, unstintingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: itzt, tangt, tanti, tanto, tantu, tanty, tfit, thint, tiat, tict, tient, tiento, Tignet, tinc, tinch, Tinh, tini, tinit, tinn, tino, tinq, tinr, Tinta, tinte, Tinty, tinx, tinz, tipt, tirt, tist, titt, Tni, toint, tont, trint, tunt, Tvind, tyno, tynt, tzin, tzit, utant, xtant, zint. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nit, tin.

-2 letters: in, it, ti.

+1 letter: nitty, stint, taint, tinct, tints, titan.

+2 letters: attain, bitten, entity, gittin, intact, intent, intort, intuit, kitten, lattin, litten, mattin, mitten, nitwit, retint, sitten, stints, stotin, taints, tanist, tentie, tenuti, tincts, tinted, tinter, titans, titian, titman, titmen, toting, triton.

+3 letters: antifat, antipot, antitax, attains, attaint, batting, betting, bittern, bitting, butting, catmint, catting, cittern, cutting, dentist, dinette, distant, distent, dittany, dotting, entitle, entwist, extinct, fatting, fetting, fitment, fitting, getting, gittern, gutting, hatting, hitting, hotting, hutting, instant, instate, intents, intitle, intorts, intrant, intreat, introit, intrust, intuits, intwist, iterant, jetting, jotting, jutting, kittens, kitting, knitted, knitter, lattins, letting, lotting, matting, mattins, mittens, nattier, nattily, nettier, netting, nictate, nitrate, nitrite, nittier, nitwits, nuttier, nuttily, nutting, patient, patting, petting, pitting, potting, putting, quintet, ratting, retints, retting, rotting, rutting, satinet, setting, sitting, smitten, stating, station, stinted, stinter, taction, tainted, tanists, tantivy, tantric, tarting, tasting, tatting, tauting, tennist, tensity, tentier, tenting, tenuity, tertian, testing, tetanic, tighten, tilting, tincted, tiniest, tinters, tinting, tintype, titania, titanic, tithing, titians, titling, titrant, toiting, tonetic, toniest, tonight, tontine, tooting, tortoni, totting, touting, transit, trident, trinity, trinket, tritone, tritons, tufting, tuition, tutting, twinjet, twinset, tything, untwist, vatting, vetting, wetting, witting, wotting, written.