Tint vs Permeate - What's the difference?
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Tint is a related term of permeate. As verbs the difference between tint and permeate is that tint is while permeate is to pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand. As a noun permeate is a watery by-product of milk production.
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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permeate English
Verb
(permeat)
To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.
To enter and spread through; to pervade.
Noun
A watery by-product of milk production.
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