Associations to the word «Tint»

Wiktionary

TINT, noun. A slight coloring.
TINT, noun. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
TINT, noun. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
TINT, noun. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
TINT, verb. (transitive) (intransitive)   To shade, to color.

Dictionary definition

TINT, noun. A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted".
TINT, verb. Color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November".

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.