Tint vs Crayon - What's the difference?
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Tint is a related term of crayon. As verbs the difference between tint and crayon is that tint is while crayon is to draw with a crayon. As a noun crayon is a stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
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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crayon Noun
( en noun)
A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
* Dryden
- Let no day pass over you without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon .
(dated) A crayon drawing.
* 1885 , Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)
- But on the wall hung two fine crayons , representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
(dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Verb
( en verb)
To draw with a crayon.
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