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Extracts vs Tincture - What's the difference?

extracts | tincture |

As nouns the difference between extracts and tincture

is that extracts is while tincture is a pigment or other substance that colours or dyes.

As verbs the difference between extracts and tincture

is that extracts is (extract) while tincture is to stain or impregnate (something) with colour.

extracts

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (extract)
  • tincture

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes.
  • A tint, or an added colour.
  • (heraldry) A colour or metal used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
  • An alcoholic extract of plant material, used as a medicine.
  • (humorous) A small alcoholic drink.
  • An essential characteristic.
  • * 1924 , ARISTOTLE. . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Book 1, Part 6.
  • for the earlier thinkers had no tincture of dialectic
  • The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
  • A slight taste superadded to any substance.
  • a tincture of orange peel
  • A slight quality added to anything; a tinge.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • All manners take a tincture from our own.
  • * Macaulay
  • Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight tincture.

    Verb

    (tinctur)
  • to stain or impregnate (something) with colour
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