Definitions for tint

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IPA: /tɪnt/

Tint is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in tint (intt).

Definitions for tint

noun

1. a color or a variety of a color; hue.
2. a color diluted with white; a color of less than maximum purity, chromo, or saturation.
3. a delicate or pale color.
4. any of various commercial dyes for the hair.
5. Engraving. a uniform shading, as that produced by a series of fine parallel lines.
6. Also called tint block. Printing. a faintly or lightly colored background upon which an illustration or the like is to be printed.

verb (used with object)

1. to apply a tint or tints to; color slightly or delicately; tinge.

Origin of tint

First recorded in 1710-20; variant of tinct

Examples for tint

That tint is what we call the blink of open water, said Johnson.

No one thinks to transform him into an Adonis, to require him to mascara his lashes or tint his cheekbones a delicate pink.

This discoloration was of a livid blue, about the tint of a tattoo mark.

That was something like—what a tint, what a bright note it set amid the surroundings!

The two figures, of a muddy grey in tint, stood out, lamentable.

Naething but a bonny wee bairnie, whause mither has tint it!

If ever he praised a limb, a tint, a contour, it was solely from the artistic point of view.

Her fresh, plump, white form displayed the most delicate softness of tint.

The pencil could do nothing where so much depended on tint and glow.

I know every shade and tint of that blessed thing they miscall the tender passion.