different between tint vs coloration

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

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).