different between tint vs permeate

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

From Latin perme?tus, participle of perme?re (“to pass through”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??mi?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?mi?e??t/

Verb

permeate (third-person singular simple present permeates, present participle permeating, simple past and past participle permeated)

1. (transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture

2. (transitive) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
   • 1922, William Shackleton, Shackleton's diaries January 4, 1922

     The old smell of dead whale permeates everything. It is a strange and curious place.

   • 1854, Saint Anselm, translated by Sidney Norton Deane, Proslogium and Monologium/Monologium/Chapter 14

     ...it is clear that this Being itself, is what supports and surpasses, includes and permeates all other things.

Translations

Noun

permeate

1. A watery by-product of milk production.
2. Liquid that has passed through a filtration system.

References

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

Italian

Verb

permeate

1. second-person plural present indicative of permeare
2. second-person plural imperative of permeare
3. feminine plural of permeato

Latin

Verb

perme?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of perme?