Tint

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tint \Tint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tinted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Tinting}.]
     To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Tint \Tint\, n. [For older tinct, fr. L. tinctus, p. p. of
     tingere to dye: cf. F. teinte, teint, It. tinta, tinto. See
     {Tinge}, and cf. {Taint} to stain, a stain, {Tent} a kind of
     wine, {Tinto}.]
     A slight coloring. Specifically: 
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     (a) A pale or faint tinge of any color.
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               Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass.
                                                    --Pope.
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               Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline.
                                                    --Harte.
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     (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.
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     (c) (Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition
         of many fine parallel lines.
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     {Tint tool} (Eng.), a species of graver used for cutting the
        parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tint
       n : 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" [syn: {shade}, {tincture}, {tone}]
       v : dye with a color [syn: {tinct}, {bepaint}, {tinge}, {touch}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  161 Moby Thesaurus words for "tint":
     Munsell chroma, achromatism, affect, apply paint, bedaub, bedizen,
     begild, besmear, brightness, brush on paint, burr, calcimine,
     cartoon, cast, chalk, charcoal, chiseling, chroma, chromatic color,
     chromaticity, chromatism, chromism, coat, color, color balance,
     color harmony, color quality, color scheme, colorant, coloration,
     colorimetric quality, coloring, complexion, cool color, copy,
     cover, crayon, cross-hatching, crosshatch, dab, dash, dash off,
     daub, decorator color, deep-dye, delineate, demitint, depict,
     design, diagram, dip, distemper, doodle, double-dye, draft, draw,
     dye, emblazon, enamel, engild, engravement, engraving, etch,
     etching, face, fast-dye, fresco, gem-engraving, gild,
     glass-cutting, glaze, gloss, glyptic, grain, graving, half tint,
     hatch, hatching, hint, hue, illuminate, imbue, incision, influence,
     infusion, ingrain, inkling, inscript, inscription, intimation,
     japan, key, lacquer, lay on color, lightness, limn, line, lining,
     marking, natural color, neutral color, paint, paint a picture,
     pallor, parget, pencil, picture, picturize, pigment, pigmentation,
     portray, prime, purity, rinse, saturation, sauce, score, scoring,
     scratch, scratching, scumble, seasoning, shade, shadow, shellac,
     sketch, skin color, slash, slashing, slop on paint, smack, smear,
     soupcon, spice, sprinkling, stain, stencil, stipple, stippling,
     suggestion, suspicion, taint, tempering, thought, tinct, tincture,
     tinge, tone, tooling, touch, touch up, trace, type-cutting,
     undercoat, undercolor, value, varnish, vestige, warm color, wash,
     whitewash
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  TINT
       
          Interpreted version of {JOVIAL}.
       
          [Sammet 1969, p. 528].
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  tint
       
          {hue}