Tint

n.	1.	A slight coloring.
	2.	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.
	3.	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.
	4.	(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.
v. t.	1.	To give a slight coloring to; to tinge. [imp. & p. p. Tinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinting.]

Noun	1.	tint - a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" Synonyms: shade, tincture, tone
Verb	1.	tint - dye with a color Synonyms: bepaint, tinct, tinge, touch

1.		TINT - Interpreted version of JOVIAL. [Sammet 1969, p. 528].
2.		tint - hue

Munsell chroma, achromatism, affect, apply paint, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, brightness, brush on paint, burr, calcimine, cartoon, cast, chalk, charcoal, chiseling, chroma, chromatic color, chromaticity, chromatism, chromism, coat, color balance, color harmony, color quality, color scheme, colorant, coloration, colorimetric quality, coloring, complexion, cool color, copy, cover, crayon, cross-hatching, crosshatch, dab, dash, dash off, daub, decorator color, deep-dye, delineate, demitint, depict, design, diagram, dip, distemper, doodle, double-dye, draft, draw, emblazon, enamel, engild, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, face, fast-dye, fresco, gem-engraving, gild, glass-cutting, glaze, gloss, glyptic, grain, graving, half tint, hatch, hatching, hint, illuminate, imbue, incision, influence, infusion, ingrain, inkling, inscript, inscription, intimation, japan, key, lacquer, lay on color, lightness, limn, line, lining, marking, natural color, neutral color, paint, paint a picture, pallor, parget, pencil, picture, picturize, pigment, pigmentation, portray, prime, purity, rinse, saturation, sauce, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, scumble, seasoning, shade, shadow, shellac, sketch, skin color, slash, slashing, slop on paint, smack, smear, soupcon, spice, sprinkling, stencil, stipple, stippling, suggestion, suspicion, taint, tempering, thought, tinct, tincture, tooling, touch, touch up, trace, type-cutting, undercoat, undercolor, value, varnish, vestige, warm color, wash, whitewash

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