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Bleach vs Tint - What's the difference?

bleach | tint |

As verbs the difference between bleach and tint

is that bleach is to treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc) or lighten (hair) while tint is .

As an adjective bleach

is (archaic) pale; bleak.

As a noun bleach

is (uncountable) a chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening or bleach can be an act of bleaching; exposure to the sun or bleach can be a disease of the skin.

bleach

English

(wikipedia bleach)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bleche (also bleke), from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (archaic) Pale; bleak.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) blechen, from (etyl) (English blake; compare also bleak).

    Verb

  • To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
  • * Ure
    • The destruction of the colouring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid.
  • * Smollett
    • Immortal liberty, whose look sublime / Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime.
  • (intransitive, biology, of corals) to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
    • Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.
    Synonyms
    * blanch

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
  • (countable) A variety of bleach.
    • Derived terms
    * bleachfield

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) bleche, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (bleaches)
  • An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) bleche, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (bleaches)
  • A disease of the skin.

    • tint

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alteration of earlier tinct, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slight coloring.
  • A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
  • A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
    • Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
  • A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

    • Verb

  • (intransitive)  To shade, to color.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=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.}}

    See also

    * tinter

    Etymology 2

    Unknown(?)

    Alternative forms

    * int

    Contraction

    (en-cont)
  • (Yorkshire, colloquial) it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't
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