TINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tint mean? 

• TINT (noun)
  The noun TINT has 3 senses:

1. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

2. a dye for coloring the hair

3. a just detectable amount

  Familiarity information: TINT used as a noun is uncommon.

• TINT (verb)
  The verb TINT has 1 sense:

1. color lightly

  Familiarity information: TINT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

shade; tincture; tint; tone

Context example:

after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted

Hypernyms ("tint" is a kind of...):

color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tint"):

mellowness (a soft shade of a color)

richness (a strong deep vividness of hue)

tinge; undertone (a pale or subdued color)

Derivation:

tint (color lightly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A dye for coloring the hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

hair coloring; hair dye; tint

Hypernyms ("tint" is a kind of...):

dye; dyestuff (a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tint"):

henna (a reddish brown dye used especially on hair)

rinse (a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A just detectable amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

hint; suggestion; tint; trace

Context example:

a tint of glamour

Hypernyms ("tint" is a kind of...):

small indefinite amount; small indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tint"):

spark (a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger)

• TINT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tint    ... he / she / it tints   
Past simple: tinted   
Past participle: tinted   
-ing form: tinting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Color lightly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

tinct; tinge; tint; touch

Context example:

the leaves were tinged red in November

Hypernyms (to "tint" is one way to...):

color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tint"):

henna (apply henna to one's hair)

tincture (stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color)

complexion (give a certain color to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

tint (a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color)

tinter (a hairdresser who tints hair)

tinting (the act of adding a tinge of color)

 Context examples 

Stars are brighter at the shorter wavelengths, giving them a blue tint.

('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)

The two galaxies shown here, imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, are named MCG+01-38-004 (the upper, red-tinted one) and MCG+01-38-005 (the lower, blue-tinted one).

(Hubble's Megamaser Galaxy, ESA/NASA)

It was of the same peculiar tint, and the same thickness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The words are written with a broad-pointed, violet-tinted pencil of a not unusual pattern.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he glanced up again, Alleyne had, with a few bold strokes of the brush, tinted in a woman's face and neck upon the white sheet in front of him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Harmful algae blooms often come in the form of "red tides," so called because of the reddish tint they lend ocean waters.

(Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algae blooms become toxic, National Science Foundation)

The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Her rich tints made the white face of her companion the more worn and haggard by the contrast.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sitting-room of our client opened by a long, low, latticed window on to the ancient lichen-tinted court of the old college.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your pleasures, by your own account, have been few; but I daresay you did exist in a kind of artist's dreamland while you blent and arranged these strange tints.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)