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: a variation of a color produced by adding white to it and characterized by a low saturation with relatively high lightness
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: dye for the hair
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: a usually slight modifying quality or characteristic : touch
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: a shaded effect in engraving produced by fine parallel lines close together
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: a panel of light color serving as background
Examples of tint in a Sentence
Noun
a photo with a sepia tint
green with a yellowish tint
She got a red tint at the salon.
Verb
They tinted the water with blue dye.
if you tint that blue paint with this yellow paint, you should get a nice shade of green
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Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2025
That familiar yellow tint — the same early symptom from years earlier — had returned.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 14 July 2025
Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Its bald head, often tinted with red or yellow hues, is an evolutionary adaptation to its scavenging lifestyle, helping to keep the head clean when feeding on carcasses.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
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Noun
When left to bloom, their pink or purple flowers add extra flavor and visual appeal to salads or lend a pink tint and onion flavor to homemade vinegar.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2025
That familiar yellow tint — the same early symptom from years earlier — had returned.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 14 July 2025
Verb
The Sani lab would cast the crowns out of white zirconia, a ceramic much harder than stainless steel, tint them to my specifications, and shape and size them to fit my jaw.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Its bald head, often tinted with red or yellow hues, is an evolutionary adaptation to its scavenging lifestyle, helping to keep the head clean when feeding on carcasses.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
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“Tint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tint. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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tint
1 of 2 noun1
a
: a slight or pale coloring
b
: any of various shades of a color
2
: a variation of a color made by adding white to it
tint
2 of 2 verb
: to give or apply a tint or color to
tinted glasses
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