different between juxtaposition vs tint

English

Alternative forms

• juxta-position

Etymology

From French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxt? (“near”) (from Latin iung? (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin p?n? (“to place”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?d??k.st?.p??z??.?n/

Noun

juxtaposition (countable and uncountable, plural juxtapositions)

1. The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
   • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend

     It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.

   1. (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.

      Example: mother father instead of mother and father

   2. (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.

      Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. ${\displaystyle a\times b\!}$ collapses to ${\displaystyle ab\!}$.

      • 2007, Lawrence Moss and Hans-Jörg Tiede, Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics, in: P. Blackburn et al (eds), Handbook of Modal Logic, Elsevier, p. 1054

        A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.

2. The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.

   There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.

   1. (art) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.

      The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.

   2. (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.

      Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.

Hypernyms

• position (structurally)

Related terms

Translations

References

• Juxtaposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

juxtaposition (third-person singular simple present juxtapositions, present participle juxtapositioning, simple past and past participle juxtapositioned)

1. To place in juxtaposition.

References

• DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN. Music.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

juxtaposition f (plural juxtapositions)

1. juxtaposition

Further reading

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: tent (with pin-pen merger)

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb ting? (“tinge”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.

Noun

tint (plural tints)

1. A slight coloring.
2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

   Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

Translations

Verb

tint (third-person singular simple present tints, present participle tinting, simple past and past participle tinted)

1. (transitive, intransitive)  To shade, to color.

Translations

See also

• tinter

Etymology 2

Unknown(?)

Alternative forms

• int

Contraction

tint

1. (Yorkshire, colloquial) it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't

Dutch

Etymology

Alteration of earlier tinct, from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb ting? (“tinge”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

tint c (plural tinten, diminutive tintje n)

1. hue

Verb

tint

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of tinten
2. imperative of tinten

Estonian

Noun

tint (genitive tindi, partitive tinti)

1. ink

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• tint in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/

Verb

tint

1. third-person singular past historic of tenir

Livonian

Etymology

Apparently from German Tinte. See etymology at Latvian tinte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tint/

Noun

tint

1. ink
   • Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), L?võk?el-?stik?el-le?k?el sõn?r?ntõz, Tartu, R?ga: TÜ, LVA

     tint – tint – tinte

     ink – ink – ink

Declension

Scots

Verb

tint

1. simple past tense and past participle of tyne

   An efterhin he tint a lot o weicht - Afterwards he lost a lot of weight