Tint \Tint\, n. [For older tinct, fr. L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye: cf. F. teinte, teint, It. tinta, tinto. See {Tinge}, and cf. {Taint} to stain, a stain, {Tent} a kind of wine, {Tinto}.] A slight coloring. Specifically: (a) A pale or faint tinge of any color.
Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass. --Pope.
Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline. --Harte. (b) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints. (c) (Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
{Tint tool} (Eng.), a species of graver used for cutting the parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.
Tint \Tint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tinted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tinting}.] To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
Glasnost can mean the redder tint of blood and guts in an action picture.
The silent film, a benchmark of German expressionism, was reissued in 1984 with a colored tint and a score by Giorgio Moroder.
Furthermore, he says, it has a yellow tint and other companies are selling the identical product in the U.S. and overseas, without any adverse association with Coke.
SINCE 1961, Combe Inc. has been marketing Grecian Formula 16 as a way for men to subtly tint gray hair.
"This will give a slightly rosier tint to the numbers, but from an economists' point of view it makes sense to have exports and imports on the same basis.
Drivers tint car windows for privacy and to cut glare and heat; tinting-film makers say the product doesn't pose a sight hazard for drivers or police and may help prevent passenger lacerations if a window shatters in a collision.