Tint vs Tinge - What's the difference?
tint | tinge |
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 A small amount of something, especially of an added color.
The degree of vividness of a color; shade, hue or tint.
To add a small amount of color; to tint.
To imbue or impregnate.
* Addison
Tinge is a synonym of tint.
As nouns the difference between tint and tinge
is that tint is a slight coloring while tinge is a small amount of something, especially of an added color.As verbs the difference between tint and tinge
is that tint is To shade, to color while tinge is to add a small amount of color; to tint.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
* inttinge
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
- His virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance.