What's the difference between tincture and tinge?

Tincture


Definition:

  • (n.) A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
  • (n.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.
  • (n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.
  • (n.) A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners.
  • (v. t.) To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.
  • (v. t.) To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We report on a patient who developed necrotizing contact dermatitis after a single topical application of tincture of benzoin and a pressure bandage following enucleation of an eye.
  • (2) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Herbal tinctures by Duchy Originals, the Prince of Wales’s company.
  • (4) The patient was a 17-year-old female Indian who had received some 3 to 8 cc of a 20 percent mixture of podophyllum resin in compound tincture of benzoin (approximately equal to 0.4 gm of podophylotoxin) as an application to her vulvar condylomata.
  • (5) Soaking the cannulae for 20 minutes in a 2% tincture of iodine solution also appears to be useful for decontamination purposes.
  • (6) The results showed that dressings containing tincture of benzoin adversely affected wound healing in children.
  • (7) The uptake capacity of granulocytes for L-DOPA varies with a clock-time and a season judging from fluorescent intensity and tincture of granulocytes.
  • (8) Corresponding reductions for Hibitane tinted tincture were 3.6903, 4.0984 and 4.1253 and for the aqueous formulation, 1.5003, 1.5721 and 1.8692.
  • (9) The tincture, evaporated to dryness, re-constituted in an equal volume of water and administered by stomach tube or intraperitoneal injection, antagonized the antinociceptive effect of morphine in two separate test (hot-plate and tail flick).
  • (10) Intraperitoneal injection of Panax ginseng C. A. Mey tincture, Polyscias filicifolia Bailey tincture, Panax ginseng tincture or Eleutherococcus Maxim extract to rats produced a rise in plasma corticosterone 1 hour after the treatment.
  • (11) Iodophors tested in this study demonstrated a distinct superiority to noncomplexed iodine solutions (tincture and aqueous iodine solutions) as wound and skin cleansers.
  • (12) The conduction bundle was stained, well enough to be identified, with iodine tincture, with Lugol's solution, and with iodine gas.
  • (13) For the tincture of iodine control, the time was 30 minutes.
  • (14) The present procedure is less time-consuming and requires about 45 and 90 min for the assay of ipeca tincture and powder, respectively.
  • (15) In the model 10(10) bacteria are given via oro-gastric tube following intravenous cimetidine and oral sodium bicarbonate and prior to intraperitoneal tincture of opium.
  • (16) The present study compared the effectiveness and tolerability of two topical ungual preparations: a 28% solution of tioconazole and a 2% tincture of miconazole.
  • (17) Based on the amount of these compounds in the tincture and their activities we conclude that bergapten is mainly responsible for the photomutagenicity of the tincture.
  • (18) 1-2 cm2 large swabs were dissolved in the tincture, and with the help of a Karaya plate and an occlusive dressing was administered to the skin in the antebrachii anterior region.
  • (19) A simplified method for the quantitative analysis of hyoscyamine hydrobromide or atropine in Belladonna Tincture USP is described.
  • (20) This study confirms earlier reports on the effectiveness of quassia tincture, which seems to be a useful alternative to clophenothane.

Tinge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron.
  • (n.) A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
  • (2) For now, the overriding feeling is helplessness, tinged with shame for the last year of passivity.
  • (3) His back went, and with it he thought he heard a simultaneous "Ting!"
  • (4) This posture of racially tinged complacency underlies most of the frequent backlashes endured by western feminists.
  • (5) Initial symptoms can be diarrhea and blood-tinged stool.
  • (6) It is a victory tinged with sadness because it comes so late: 71-year-old Wallace has very little time left to live.
  • (7) Blood-tinged amniotic fluid interfered with AFP and nitrazine evaluation.
  • (8) Because of our slightly younger average age and city location, we were supposedly one of the "new wave" WIs that had started springing up in the years before – groups that rejected crochet and did more modern activities, often with more than a tinge of irony.
  • (9) Unfortunately for the assembled crowds, Ting kept his powder dry, despite much prodding and questioning, revealing nothing about the year's worth of data from AMS except to say that they would be "important" results and would be made public when he submitted them to a scientific journal within a few weeks.
  • (10) Perhaps not, if this missive from our an at Wembley, Davidde Corran, is anything to go by: From the Wembley seats to the San Francisco 49ers fans occupying so many of them, the first of four annual Jacksonville Jaguars games has quite the red tinge.
  • (11) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
  • (12) But his admiration of its open, can-do mentality was always tinged with scepticism: "I have seen the future and it does NOT work," he wrote to me.
  • (13) We cannot think that a society has a future when it fails to pass laws capable of protecting families and ensuring their basic needs, especially those of families just starting out.” Intentionally or not, the pontiff’s politically tinged address would have bolstered his progressive reputation, even though traditional Catholic social doctrine has long espoused access to housing, medical aid and work.
  • (14) Young brings together a vision of mother nature reaching her peak, with the quietly stirring chord change from D major to G, and an occasionally desperate tinge to his voice.
  • (15) Will's singing is completely English; dignified, buttoned-up even; the tune is country-tinged and classic.
  • (16) As burly security men hung back and the promoters sat silently by, Chisora marched on Haye, who gritted his teeth, held on to what those close to him say was a bottle of Desperados, a pale German lager tinged with tequila, and threw an inspired right hand that cracked into the side of Chisora's jaw.
  • (17) The calf initially drooled blood-tinged saliva and drank with difficulty.
  • (18) A single, Choices, saw them back on the radio despite abandoning the 60s and 70s references of their previous hits for an electro-tinged 80s sound, and even earned them some positive reviews.
  • (19) She was clearly feeling the same sense of excitement tinged with unease.
  • (20) As French military units arrive in Bangui and start deploying elsewhere in-country , our international and CAR colleagues are allowing themselves a measure of hope even if this is tinged with scepticism and apprehension too.