From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tint \Tint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tinting.]
To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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:
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(a) A pale or faint tinge of any color.
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Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass.
--Pope.
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Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline.
--Harte.
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(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.
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(c) (Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition
of many fine parallel lines.
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Tint tool (Eng.), a species of graver used for cutting the
parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tint
n 1: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from
another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of
pink that she wanted" [syn: shade, tint, tincture,
tone]
v 1: color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the
leaves were tinged red in November" [syn: tint, tinct,
tinge, touch]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
hue
tint
<graphics> (Or "tint") The coordinate in the HSB {colour
model} that determines the frequency of light or the position
in the spectrum or the relative amounts of red, green and
blue. Hue corresponds to the common definition of colour,
e.g. "red", "orange", "violet" etc. The other coordinates are
saturation and brightness.
(1999-07-05)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
TINT
Interpreted version of JOVIAL.
[Sammet 1969, p. 528].