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