Oint vs Tint - What's the difference?
oint | tint |
To anoint.
*Dryden
*:They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.
*, II.25:
*:to make his excuse more likely, he caused his legges to be ointed and swathed, and lively counterfeted the behaviour and countenance of a goutie man.
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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.
A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
(intransitive) To shade, to color.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1
As verbs the difference between oint and tint
is that oint is to anoint while tint is .oint
English
Verb
(en verb)tint
English
Etymology 1
Alteration of earlier tinct, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
Verb
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.}}