(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.
Tint
Definition:
(n.) A slight coloring.
(n.) A pale or faint tinge of any color.
(n.) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
(n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
(v. t.) To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tinted self-curing sealant was applied to the entire occlusal surface of each tooth.
(2) The data of 29 subjects totaling more than 21,000 stripe detection events showed that coated photochromic prescription lenses performed better by day and poorer by night compared to uncoated white crown prescription lenses, and that a multiple-layer coated, tinted lens (Neo Multicoat) performed at least as well, day or night, as did the uncoated white crown lens.
(3) Despite the severity of the illness, Michael, eyes shielded by tinted glasses he declined to take off when asked by photographers, promised to complete the tour.
(4) When the US supreme court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage last year, the White House welcomed it with rainbow-coloured lights and many people celebrated by adding a rainbow tint to their Facebook profile.
(5) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.
(6) The combination of various possibilities for sample preparation and investigation--the tinting penetration method, the ion beam slope cutting, the light and scanning electron microscopy--allow statements at the grind after different drying of the preparation mainly to the bond but also surface and filler shape of glass-ionomer cements.
(7) Few cars have number plates; most have black-tinted windows.
(8) Clinical examination showed green tinting toward the distal ends of the most superficial strands of hair.
(9) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
(10) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
(11) Nostalgia was the soldiers’ malady – a state of mind that made life in the here and now a debilitating process of yearning for that which had been lost: rose-tinted peace, happiness, loved ones.
(12) Mark Curry, founder and director at MAD Ventures says Singles Day will act as “both a great launch pad to showcase TINT to the Chinese market and as an opportunity to drive trial” of the new product.
(13) The Guardian view on the automated future: fewer shops and fewer people | Editorial Read more The problem with this rose-tinted view of automation, however, is its focus on big averages that take little account of individuals’ experiences.
(14) We noted a statistically significant correlation between hemoglobin concentration and the following: color tint of the lower eyelid conjunctiva, nail-bed rubor, nail-bed blanching, and palmar crease rubor.
(15) There is a political tint to this whole episode,” he added, claiming the media was taking its cue from Democrats.
(16) He relished his public status as no-nonsense voice of a common-sense socialism that had an increasingly nationalistic tint.
(17) "People with rose-tinted glasses are more responsive to positive things in the environment.
(18) Different dyes were used to tint Soflens contact lenses.
(19) Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] was measured by both a radial immunodiffusion (RID) kit from Immuno AG (Zurich, Switzerland) and a Tint Elize enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit from CytRx Biopool Ltd. (Umeå, Sweden) in serum samples that had been stored at -20 and -70 degrees C for six months.
(20) The transmittance properties of 96 tinted lenses were examined to determine whether these lenses met the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z80.3 standards for traffic signal transmittances and color shifts.