different between coloration vs tinge

English

Alternative forms

• colorification (dated)
• colouration (British)

Etymology

From French coloration, from Latin col?r?ti?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

coloration (countable and uncountable, plural colorations)

1. The act or art of coloring.
2. The quality of being colored.
3. (music) A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
4. (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
5. Political tendency.
   • 1968, Bernard Cosman, ?Robert Jack Huckshorn, Republican Politics (page 88)

     Numerous studies of family imprint upon offspring party attachment have shown that, when the father and mother agree politically, the children are likely to adopt the political coloration of their parents.

   • 2014, Kevin P. Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority: Updated Edition (page 175)

     The party was not organized as an Irish political vehicle, but from the first it had a decidedly Gaelic coloration.

Translations

See also

• diatonic
• chromatic
• coloratura

French

Pronunciation

Noun

coloration f (plural colorations)

1. color; coloring; coloration
   • 1827, Elisabeth Celnart, Art de la toilette

     On voit que je ne suis point au nombre des partisans de la coloration des cheveux.

     You can see that I'm not one of those people who's partial to a coloring of the hair

Further reading

• “coloration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

The verb is derived from Latin tingere, present active infinitive of ting? (“to dip; to moisten; to colour, dye, tinge”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to dip; to soak”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /t?n(d)?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Noun

tinge (plural tinges)

1. A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.

   Synonyms: tincture, teint, (the latter two obsolete) teinture
2. The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.

Translations

Verb

tinge (third-person singular simple present tinges, present participle tinging or tingeing, simple past and past participle tinged)

1. (transitive) To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.

   Synonym: tinct
2. (transitive, figuratively) To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
3. (intransitive) To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• tinged (adjective)
• tingent (archaic)
• untinged

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Teign, get in, get-in

Italian

Verb

tinge

1. third-person singular present indicative of tingere

Anagrams

• genti, tigne

Latin

Verb

tinge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ting?

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• tinga (a-infinitive)

Etymology

From Old Norse þinga, from Proto-Germanic *þing?n?.

Verb

tinge (present tense tingar, past tense tinga, past participle tinga, passive infinitive tingast, present participle tingande, imperative ting)

1. (transitive) to reserve; to place an order on

   Synonym: bestille

2. to subscribe (to a publication)

   Synonym: abonnere

3. to negotiate

Derived terms

• tingar
• tinge på
• tinging

Related terms

• ting

References

• “tinge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• eting, ginet, geint, ginte, tigne

Portuguese

Verb

tinge

1. third-person singular present indicative of tingir

Spanish

Noun

tinge m (plural tinges)

1. Eurasian eagle owl