Solution vs Tincture - What's the difference?
solution | tincture |
A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
The answer to a problem.
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(legal, UK, archaic, rare) Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
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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.
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 slight quality added to anything; a tinge.
* Alexander Pope
* Macaulay
to stain or impregnate (something) with colour
As nouns the difference between solution and tincture
is that solution is a homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances while tincture is a pigment or other substance that colours or dyes.As a verb tincture is
to stain or impregnate (something) with colour.solution
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}
Antonyms
* problemtincture
English
(wikipedia tincture)Noun
(en noun)- for the earlier thinkers had no tincture of dialectic
- a tincture of orange peel
- All manners take a tincture from our own.
- Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight tincture.