as in shade
a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished
there's a bluish tinge to your lips—you must be freezing!
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as in to tint
to give color or a different color to
just slightly tinge the frosting with yellow food coloring to give it a lemony look
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Recent Examples of tinge
Aspen Pflughoeft
july 8, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
The street-facing towers remain; the bishop retains an apartment with tall, appropriately canonical arched windows and stained glass; and the other new residences have an appealing tinge of weirdness that new construction hardly ever offers.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 June 2025
Liam Twomey, New York Times, 25 July 2025
For one couple online, a recent road trip with their new canine companion was tinged with worry about his car behavior.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
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Noun
Small black and white spots dot the lizards’ backs, and their tails have a slight blue tinge.
—Aspen Pflughoeft
july 8, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
The street-facing towers remain; the bishop retains an apartment with tall, appropriately canonical arched windows and stained glass; and the other new residences have an appealing tinge of weirdness that new construction hardly ever offers.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 June 2025
Verb
Enzo Maresca’s words during the FIFA Club World Cup celebrations on the MetLife Stadium pitch tapped into the prevailing mood at Chelsea: euphoria tinged with exhaustion at the end of a season that had begun 330 days and 64 matches earlier.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 25 July 2025
For one couple online, a recent road trip with their new canine companion was tinged with worry about his car behavior.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinge
Noun
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Read on to see the exact shades our editors are loving, along with paint color recommendations for your next room refresh or DIY project.—
Emily Williams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Aug. 2025
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Kids line up here for scoops and floats, while parents enjoy the shade at outdoor picnic tables or on the roof overlooking the water.—
Katherine Lawless,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Aug. 2025
Verb
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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
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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
Noun
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These Creme Blush Sticks deliver rich, buildable pigment in shades that flatter every skin tone for both cheeks and lips.—
Kristen Philipkoski,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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Recently, even her tone and manner reveal a personality unwilling to surrender.—
Hala Mustafa,
Billboard,
28 July 2025
Verb
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Choose a day when the temperatures won't be too cold or too hot and plan to paint during the mid-morning or late afternoon for the best results.—
Timothy Dale,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Aug. 2025
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That was so important to me as well, because so often Hispanics are painted in only one very narrow stereotypical picture.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Aug. 2025
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In Milwaukee, one of the country's most racially segregated cities, where historical redlining has pushed communities of color into more industrial areas, urban heat islands continue to reinforce longstanding inequities.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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Today, Maryland sends a higher proportion of our young people into adult prisons than any state except Alabama — 92% of whom are youth of color; 81% are Black.—
Will Smith,
Baltimore Sun,
23 July 2025
Verb
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However, the damage was done, thanks to the anchoring bias where the news broke, it was already stained in people’s memory.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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It was stained in several places, disintegrating around the edges, and already yellowing due to years of exposure to air and sunlight and, quite possibly, pipe tobacco.—
Darcy Ballantyne
July 16,
Literary Hub,
16 July 2025
Noun
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Available in classic hues—a cream hue and a fresh spiced olive green— these pants come in sizes 0 through 20 to ensure an elevated vibe for everyone.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
24 July 2025
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The deep hue is set against English White and a Ningye Purple Silken Spirit motif is hand-painted on the C-pillar Inside, there’s a starlight headliner with 1,344 fibre-optic ‘stars’ and 192 ‘shooting stars’.—
Trinity Francis,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
Verb
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In 1979, Vincent McMahon, who ran the World Wrestling Federation, met Bollea and reportedly wanted to give him an Irish name and dye his hair red.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
25 July 2025
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Barron sometimes covers them in liquid latex to prevent dyeing the vinyl.—
Jordan Greene,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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“Tinge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinge. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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