TINT : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: TINT	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for TINT
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tint n a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" Synonym(s): shade, tint, tincture, tone v color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November" Synonym(s): tint, tinct, tinge, touch
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tint \Tint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tinted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tinting}.] To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TINT Interpreted version of {JOVIAL}. [Sammet 1969, p. 528].
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
tint {hue}