tint

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɪnt/

Noun

tint (plural tints)

1. A slight coloring.
2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

   Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

Translations

• German: Tönung
• Portuguese: coloração
• Spanish: tinta, coloración, colorido

Translations

• Spanish: matiz, tinte, coloración, colorido

Translations

• German: Ton, Farbton
• Spanish: tono, matiz

Verb

tint (tints, present participle tinting; past and past participle tinted)

1. (transitive, intransitive)  To shade, to color.

Translations

• German: tönen, färben, einfärben
• Portuguese: colorir
• Spanish: teñir, colorir, matizar

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