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tint

noun
/tɪnt/

Etymology

Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.

  1. derived from tinctus
  2. derived from teinte

Definitions

  1. A slight coloring.

  2. A pale or faint tinge of any color

    A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)

  3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

    • Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

    2. A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.

      • About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.
      • I'd watch as cars marched by like a line of ants. Cars with those cool hydraulics. Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.

    3. To shade, to color.

    4. it is not

      it is not; it isn't

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tint. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tint. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at tint

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA