different between tint vs crayon

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from cr?tus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.?n/, /?k?e?.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.?n/, [?k??e?.?n]; also /?k?e?.?n/ (the most common pronunciations, used by 83% of Americans)
• (US) enPR: kr??än
• (US, uncommon, especially Northeastern US, Midwestern US) IPA^(key): /?k?æn/, [?k?e?n]
• (US, rare, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern US) IPA^(key): /?k?a?n/, [?k???n], [?k?æ?n]
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

crayon (plural crayons)

1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

   Hyponym: Conté

2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

   Synonym: pencil crayon

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.

3. (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
   • 1885, Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)

     But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.

4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (rail transport) An informal map of a proposed rail route.

Related terms

• cretaceous

Translations

Verb

crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or crayonned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw with a crayon.

Further reading

• crayon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• crayon at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• acyron

French

Etymology

craie (“chalk”) +? -on (diminutive), from Latin cr?ta (“chalk, clay”), from cr?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.j??/

Noun

crayon m (plural crayons)

1. pencil
2. (colloquial) pen
3. (vulgar, slang) cock, dick, prick

Descendants

• ? English: crayon
• ? Esperanto: krajono
• ? Spanish: crayón, clarión

Further reading

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