Tint
A slight coloring.
A pale or faint tinge of any color.
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.
A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
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Tint Quotations
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
Vladimir Nabokov
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
Adela Florence Nicolson
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
Theodore Gericault
Tint Translations
tint in Afrikaans is kleur, skakering
tint in Danish is farve
tint in Dutch is nuancering, schakering, nuance
tint in French is teinte, nuance, teindre
tint in German is Farbton, Farbe
tint in Italian is tinta, tinta, colorazione
tint in Portuguese is matiz
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