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Tincture vs Infusion - What's the difference?

tincture | infusion |

As nouns the difference between tincture and infusion

is that tincture is a pigment or other substance that colours or dyes while infusion is a product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.

As a verb tincture

is to stain or impregnate (something) with colour.

tincture

English

(wikipedia 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

    • Anagrams

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    infusion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.
    • An extract of rooibos and chamomile makes a refreshing infusion .
  • The act of steeping or soaking a substance in liquid so as to extract medicinal or herbal qualities.
  • The act of installing a quality into a person.
  • * 1602 : , act V scene 1
    • [...] but in the verity of extolment / I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion / of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of / him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would / trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
  • (obsolete) The act of dipping into a fluid.