Tincture vs Shafted - What's the difference?
tincture | shafted |
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
(shaft)
fitted with a shaft
(heraldry, of a spear) Having a shaft and head of different tinctures.
(slang) screwed (in all senses); ripped off
As verbs the difference between tincture and shafted
is that tincture is to stain or impregnate (something) with colour while shafted is (shaft).As a noun tincture
is a pigment or other substance that colours or dyes.As an adjective shafted is
fitted with a shaft.tincture
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.
