Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - tint
Tint
tint
n. & v. --n. 1 a variety of a colour, esp. one made lighter by adding white. 2 a tendency towards or admixture of a different colour (red with a blue tint). 3 a faint colour spread over a surface, esp. as a background for printing on. 4 a set of parallel engraved lines to give uniform shading. --v.tr. apply a tint to; colour. Derivatives tinter n. Etymology: alt. of earlier tinct f. L tinctus dyeing (as TINGE), perh. infl. by It. tinto
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I. noun Etymology: alteration of earlier tinct, from Latin tinctus act of dyeing, from tingere to tinge Date: 1717 1. a usually slight or pale coloration ; hue, any of various lighter or darker shades of a color ; tinge, a variation of a color produced by adding white to it and characterized by a low saturation with relatively high lightness, a usually slight modifying quality or characteristic ; touch, a shaded effect in engraving produced by fine parallel lines close together, a panel of light color serving as background, dye for the hair, II. transitive verb Date: 1791 to impart or apply a ~ to ; color, ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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