Images may take on a yellowish tint as color vibrancy diminishes.
What is more, the spot reflects more red light than blue light, meaning it has a reddish tint in the visible spectrum.
Lest the queen perspire, it has a layer of tint that's both effective and hardly noticeable.
To tint homemade lip balm, add a little juice from beets or cranberries.
Consult the map legend for specific tint representations.
The tint of the flower proceeds from its root, and the lustres of the sea-shell begin with its existence.
Then it is exposed in another box to the fumes of the bromide of lime until it becomes of a blood-red tint.
In tests, they minimized glare and produced more realistic colors, as the flash added less of its own tint.
She has even helped a decorator friend choose the proper tint for her dental veneer.
His liver function tests were always much too high, and his eyes had a yellowish tint from jaundice.
British Dictionary definitions for tint
tint
/tɪnt/
noun
1.
a shade of a colour, esp a pale one
2.
a colour that is softened or desaturated by the addition of white
3.
a tinge
4.
a semipermanent dye for the hair
5.
a trace or hint: a tint of jealousy in his voice
6.
(engraving) uniform shading, produced esp by hatching
7.
(printing) a panel of colour serving as a background to letters or other matter
verb
8.
(transitive) to colour or tinge
9.
(transitive) to change or influence slightly: his answer was tinted by his prior knowledge
10.
(intransitive) to acquire a tint
Derived Forms
tinter, noun
Word Origin
C18: from earlier tinct
Word Origin and History for tint
n.
"color," 1717, alteration of tinct (c.1600), from Latin tinctus "a dyeing," from tingere "to dye" (see tincture); influenced by Italian tinta "tint, hue," from Latin tinctus.
v.
1756 (implied in tinted), from tint (n.). Related: Tinted; tinting.
tint in Technology
Interpreted version of JOVIAL. [Sammet 1969, p. 528].