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Tint vs Tintable - What's the difference?

tint | tintable |

As a verb tint

is .

As an adjective tintable is

that can be tinted.

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
    • ----

    tintable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That can be tinted.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 14, author=Jay Romano, title=Shades and Windows Think for Themselves, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=John Van Dine, the chief executive of Sage Electrochromics in Faribault, Minn., a manufacturer of electronically tintable glass, said that with dynamic glazing, the heat of the sun never gets into the house in the first place. }}