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Definition of Tint

Tint

  1. A slight coloring.
  2. A pale or faint tinge of any color.
  3. 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.
  4. A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
  5. To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

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

I love to use beets as a lip tint. It lasts all day.
Shay Mitchell

Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint.
Pharrell Williams

I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.
Anson Mount

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
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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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