tint
tint / tint/ • n. 1. a shade or variety of color: the sky was taking on an apricot tint. ∎ Printing an area of faint even color printed as a halftone, 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 coloring the hair. ∎ an application of such a substance: peering into the mirror to see if any white hair showed after her last tint.• v. [tr.] (usu. be tinted) color (something) slightly; tinge: her skin was tinted with delicate color| [as adj.] (tinted) a black car with tinted windows. ∎ dye (someone's hair) with a tint.DERIVATIVES: tint·er n.
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LANGUAGE: Afrikaans; English
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