Meaning

A slight coloring..

Definitions by Sense

1. A slight coloring.
2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
5. (automotive, informal) A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To shade, to color.
7. (Yorkshire, colloquial) it is not; it isn't

Example Sentences

Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.

I'd watch as cars marched by like a line of ants. Cars with those cool hydraulics. Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.

The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

Word Forms

• tints
• tinting
• tinted
• int

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Use tint when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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