Meaning

5 senses
  1. A slight coloring.

    Tönung

    a dye for coloring the hair

  2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)

  3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

    Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

    Ton, Farbton

  4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

  5. (informal)A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.

Examples

28 sentences
  1. He sees the world through rose-tinted glasses.

    ruОн видит мир сквозь розовые очки.

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  2. Tom looks at the world through rose-tinted glasses.

    ruТом смотрит на мир сквозь розовые очки.

    deTom betrachtet die Welt durch eine rosarote Brille.

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  3. Many skiers wear tinted goggles.

    deViele Skifahrer tragen getönte Brillen.

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  4. My van has tinted windows.

    deMein Transporter hat getönte Fenster.

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  5. Tom's car has tinted windows.

    ruУ машины Тома тонированные окна.

    deToms Auto hat getönte Scheiben.

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Translations

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By meaning 2
slight coloring:
color considered with reference to other similar colors:

Origin

Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tīnctus (“dy

Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tīnctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.

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Forms

plural: tints
Singulartint
Pluraltints

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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