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   tint

   /tɪnt/

   noun

   • 1. a shade or variety of a colour: "the sky was taking on an apricot tint" Similar shadecolourtonehuetingecasttinctureflushblush
   • ▪ an area of faint even colour printed as a half-tone, used for highlighting overprinted text.
   • ▪ a set of parallel engraved lines to give uniform shading.
   • ▪ a trace of something: "a tint of glamour"
   • 2. an artificial dye for colouring the hair. Similar dyecolourantcolouringwashstreakinghighlightslowlights
   • ▪ an application of hair dye: "peering into the mirror to see if any white hair showed after her last tint"

   verb

   • 1. colour (something) slightly; tinge: "her skin was tinted with delicate colour"
   • ▪ dye (someone's hair) with a tint: "they spent hours having their hair tinted and set"

   Word Origin early 18th century: alteration (perhaps influenced by Italian tinta) of obsolete tinct ‘to colour, tint’, from Latin tinctus ‘dyeing’, from tingere ‘to dye or colour’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. tinter noun

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