Noun: tint
Sample Sentences
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Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
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About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot. [2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36:]
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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. [2021, Carol Park, Memoir of a Cashier: Korean Americans, Racism, and Riots:]
Nouns inflected like tint
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tīnctus (“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. See: French Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "tint"
Spanish Nouns
tinta.