different between paint vs tinge

English

Etymology

From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin ping? (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English t?afor (“paint”) and *t?efran (“to paint”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?nt

Noun

paint (countable and uncountable, plural paints)

1. A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
2. (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
3. (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.

   The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
4. (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.

   I am running low on paint for my marker.

5. (poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
6. (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
7. (uncountable) Makeup.
8. (uncountable, slang) Tattoo work.

   Synonym: ink

9. (dated) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
10. The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
    • 1973, International Conference on Radar--Present and Future, 23-25 October, 1973 (page 203)

      Smaller target paints would also be preferred to those displayed on the existing DFTI.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Verb

paint (third-person singular simple present paints, present participle painting, simple past and past participle painted)

1. (transitive) To apply paint to.
2. (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
3. (transitive, medicine) To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
4. (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
   • c. 1590s, William Shakespeare, Spring (poem)

     Cuckoo buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight.

5. (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.

   to paint a portrait or a landscape

6. (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.

   I've been painting since I was a young child.

7. (transitive, graphical user interface) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
8. (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.
9. (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
10. (transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.

Derived terms

Related terms

• picture

Translations

Further reading

• paint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• paint in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• paint at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Atnip, NAITP, inapt, inpat, nip at, patin, pinta, tap in, tap-in

Catalan

Verb

paint

1. present participle of pair

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