different between coloured vs tinct

English

Adjective

coloured (comparative more coloured, superlative most coloured)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of colored

Usage notes

See colored.

Noun

coloured (plural coloureds)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of colored
   • 2018 Ticket taker, "Struggling Against the Perception of Facts", Anne with an E, season 2, episode 8, 13 minutes

     On this train we put the coloureds to work.

Verb

coloured

1. (British spelling) simple past tense and past participle of colour

Anagrams

• decolour

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tinctus, past participle of ting? (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??kt/
• Rhymes: -??kt

Noun

tinct (plural tincts)

1. (archaic) a tint or colour
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine

     all the devices blazoned on the shield, in their own tinct

   • 1889. Gissing, George. The Nether World, Volume 3 Chapter 1:

     The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man’s thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter like the others, meeting mine with countermine.

Verb

tinct (third-person singular simple present tincts, present participle tincting, simple past and past participle tincted)

1. to tint, tinge or colour

Adjective

tinct (comparative more tinct, superlative most tinct)

1. tinged or lightly coloured

Noun

tinct

1. Abbreviation of tincture.