Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A color or tint.
- adjective Colored lightly or faintly; tinged.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To tinge or tint, as with color; hence, figuratively, to imbue.
- Tinged.
- noun Tint; tinge; coloring; hue.
- noun A tincture; an essence; specifically, the grand elixir of the alchemists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Archaic Tined; tinged.
- noun Archaic Color; tinge; tincture; tint.
- transitive verb Archaic To color or stain; to imblue; to tint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
tint orcolour - verb to tint,
tinge or colour - adjective
tinged or lightlycoloured - abbreviation
tincture
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb color lightly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Well, now brain scientists say something distinct is happening in the physical brain, too.
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This painting of the flesh, I understand, is performed in their youth, by picking the skin with a needle, until the blood starts, and rubbing in a blueish tinct, which is as permanent as their life.
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Mars tinctured either cheek with tinct of martial red;
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It darkles, (tinct, tint) all this our funnaminal world.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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She was aware of curious glances as she sat in the bow of the caique watching Myros turn from an indis tinct blur into a tall, mountainous ridge, the lower slopes softened by patches of greenery.
The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000
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She was aware of curious glances as she sat in the bow of the caique watching Myros turn from an indis tinct blur into a tall, mountainous ridge, the lower slopes softened by patches of greenery.
The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000
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They moved forward in a combat crouch, following the tinct center of what had once been a fairly wide road.
In Alien Hands Shatner, William 1997
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"There's a general store about three miles away -" He .. is? "asked Nicolette slowly, aware of a disthat 's if you don't mind walking." tinct pang of disappointment, and hated lierself for
Consultant Care Wirdnam, Sharon 1996
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It is therefore possible to have several simultaneous but distinct con - nections to the same port on a given machine, as long as the remote sockets are dis - tinct.
aokajiya commented on the word tinct
This word's examples seem to be picking up a lot of false hits for extinct and distinct.
March 26, 2012