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Tint vs Suffuse - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between tint and suffuse

is that tint is   To shade, to color while suffuse is to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to perfuse.

As a noun tint

is a slight coloring.

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)
  • 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.
    • Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
  • A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

    • Verb

  • (intransitive)  To shade, to color.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 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

    * tinter

    Etymology 2

    Unknown(?)

    Alternative forms

    * int

    Contraction

    (en-cont)
  • (Yorkshire, colloquial) it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't
    • ----

    suffuse

    English

    Verb

    (suffus)
  • To spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to perfuse.
    • The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
  • (figuratively) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
    • The warmth suffused his cold fingers.

    Usage notes

    The verb is often used in the passive voice.

    Synonyms

    * diffuse

    Derived terms

    * suffusion * suffusive ----