different between tincture vs tone

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin tinctura, from the verb tingo. Compare tint, taint. teinture.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??(k)t??/, /?t??ktj??/
• Rhymes: -??kt??
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??kt??/

Noun

tincture (plural tinctures)

1. (obsolete) A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes. [15th–19th c.]
2. A tint, or an added colour.
3. (heraldry) A colour or metal used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
4. An alcoholic extract of plant material, used as a medicine.
5. (humorous) A small alcoholic drink.
6. An essential characteristic.
   • 1924, W. D. Ross (translator), Aristotle, Metaphysics, Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Book 1, Part 6.

     for the earlier thinkers had no tincture of dialectic

7. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
8. A slight taste superadded to any substance.

   a tincture of orange peel

9. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge.
   • 1734, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Cobham

     All manners take a tincture from our own.

Translations

Verb

tincture (third-person singular simple present tinctures, present participle tincturing, simple past and past participle tinctured)

1. To stain or impregnate (something) with color.
   • 1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Part III, Section IX, [1]

     The passions of fear and hope may arise when the chances are equal on both sides, and no superiority can be discovered in the one above the other. Nay, in this situation the passions are rather the strongest, as the mind has then the least foundation to rest upon, and is tossed with the greatest uncertainty. Throw in a superior degree of probability to the side of grief, you immediately see that passion diffuse itself over the composition, and tincture it into fear.

   • 1911, The Mining World, Volume 34, p. 73, [2]

     No definite system was used for testing the tincturing and spreading powers of the pigments, or for testing their permanence.

   • 1998, Nadine Gordimer, House Gun, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, p. 212,

     Which one of the carefully chosen assessors, one white, one sufficiently tinctured to pass as black, was it who was speaking […]

2. (figuratively) To tinge; to taint.
   • 1674 John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book V, 277-85, [3]

     Six wings he wore, to shade / His lineaments divine; the pair that clad / Each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breast / With regal ornament; the middle pair / Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round / Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold / And colours dipt in Heaven; the third his feet / Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail, / Sky-tinctured grain.

   • 1797, William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas, in W. H. Stevenson (ed.), Blake: The Complete Poems, London: Routledge, 3rd edition, 2007, "Night the Seventh," 759-60, p. 413,

     And first he drew a line upon the walls of shining heaven, / And Enitharmon tinctured it with beams of blushing love.

   • 1820, Letter from Joseph Severn to John Taylor, Rome, 24 December, 1820, [4]

     Now observe, my dear Sir, I don’t for a moment push my little but honest Religious faith upon poor Keats, except as far as my feelings go, but these I try to keep from him. I fall into his views sometimes to quiet him and tincture them with a somewhat of mine, […]

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 10, [5]

     As it is, one must turn to some authority not liable to the charge of being tinctured with the Biblical element.

   • 1982, Saul Bellow, "Him with His Foot in His Mouth" in Collected Stories, New York: Viking, 2001, p. 379,

     They have too many books, most of them burdensome. The crowded shelves give off an inviting, consoling, seductive odor that is also tinctured faintly with something pernicious, with poison and doom.

3. To soak (an organic substance) in alcohol or another liquid to produce a tincture.
   • 1995, Deb Soule, The Woman's Handbook of Herbal Healing: A Guide to Natural Remedies, New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011, Chapter 2, [6]

     I prefer to tincture each herb separately and mix combinations as I need them.

   • 2009, Greg A. Marley, Mushrooms for Health: Medicinal Secrets of Northeastern Fungi, Down East Books, [7]

     At its simplest, tincturing involves chopping or grinding the source material as finely as possible, covering it with ethyl (grain) alcohol, and allowing the mixture to macerate, or steep, for two weeks or more.

Derived terms

• untinctured

Translations

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Tincture”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 1 (Ti–U), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 48, column 2.

Anagrams

• intercut

Latin

Participle

t?nct?re

1. vocative masculine singular of t?nct?rus

Romanian

Verb

tincture

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of tinctura
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of tinctura

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ton, tone, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (possibly through Old French ton), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”). Doublet of tune, ton, and tonus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: t?n, IPA^(key): /t??n/
• (US) enPR: t?n, IPA^(key): /to?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

tone (plural tones)

1. (music) A specific pitch.
2. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
3. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
4. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
5. General character, mood, or trend.

   Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening.

6. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
7. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

   Children often read with a tone.

8. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
   • 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller

     Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing.

9. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
   • c. 1714 (undated), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, letter to Alexander Pope

     The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, […] drag the mind down […] from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.

10. The shade or quality of a colour.
11. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

    This picture has tone.

12. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
13. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
14. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
15. (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun

Synonyms

• (an interval of a major second): whole tone

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

tone (third-person singular simple present tones, present participle toning, simple past and past participle toned)

1. (transitive) to give a particular tone to
2. (transitive) to change the colour of
3. (transitive) to make (something) firmer
4. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour
5. (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.

Synonyms

• (give a particular tone to):
• (change the colour of): color/colour, dye, paint, tint
• (make firmer): firm, firm up, tone up
• (harmonize): harmonise/harmonize
• (utter with an affected tone):

Derived terms

• betone
• toned
• tone down
• toner
• tone up
• tony, toney (affected tone)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tone, ton, toon, from the incorrect division of thet one (“the/that one”). Compare Scots tane in the tane; see also tother.

Pronoun

tone

1. (now dialectal) the one (of two)

Further reading

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

References

Anagrams

• ETNO, Eton, Note, Teno, ento-, note, teno-

Afrikaans

Noun

tone

1. plural of toon

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?n?/, [?t?o?n?]

Noun

tone c (singular definite tonen, plural indefinite toner)

1. tone
2. note

Declension

Verb

tone (imperative ton, infinitive at tone, present tense toner, past tense tonede, perfect tense har tonet)

1. to sound
2. to tone
3. to tint

References

• “tone” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

tone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tonen

Anagrams

• toen

Latin

Noun

tone

1. vocative singular of tonus

Middle English

Pronoun

tone

1. the one (of two)

   • So wythin the thirde day, there cam to the cité thes two brethirne: the tone hyght Sir Helyus and the other hyght Helake

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).

Noun

tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural toner, definite plural tonene)

1. a tone (sound, colour etc.)

Derived terms

• halvtone

References

• “tone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek ????? (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tu?n?/

Noun

tone m (definite singular tonen, indefinite plural tonar, definite plural tonane)

1. a tone (sound, colour etc.)

Derived terms

• halvtone
• tonekunst

References

• “tone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tone (ma class, plural matone)

1. drop

Tokelauan

Etymology

Borrowed from English ton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to.ne/
• Hyphenation: to?ne

Noun

tone

1. ton

Alternative forms

• tane

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?^[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 397