tint

 
Pronunciation: /tɪnt/

noun

  • 1a shade or variety of a colour: the sky was taking on an apricot tint
  • Printing 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
  • 2an artificial dye for colouring the hair.
  • an application of hair dye: peering into the mirror to see if any white hair showed after her last tint

verb

[with object]
  • colour (something) slightly; tinge: her skin was tinted with delicate colour (as adjective tinted) a black car with tinted windows
  • dye (someone’s hair) with a tint: they spent hours having their hair tinted and set

Derivatives

tinter

noun

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'