Tint vs Pigmentation - 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.
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As nouns the difference between tint and pigmentation
is that tint is a slight coloring while pigmentation is coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment.As a verb tint
is To shade, to color.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.}}
