Tint vs Pigment - What's the difference?
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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 (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells
A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder
(obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
As nouns the difference between tint and pigment
is that tint is a slight coloring while pigment is any color in plant or animal cells.As verbs the difference between tint and pigment
is that tint is To shade, to color while pigment is to add color or pigment to something.As a contraction tint
is it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't.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.}}
See also
* tinterEtymology 2
Unknown(?)Alternative forms
* intpigment
English
(wikipedia pigment)Noun
(en noun)- Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
- Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
