What's the difference between tinge and undertone?

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.

Undertone


Definition:

  • (n.) A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Donald Trump is fairly progressive about gay people but when you look at Mike Pence and the Republican party, the religious undertone threatens to roll back the tide of progress.
  • (2) When Johnson or Congressman Earl Blumenauer – who is pushing for extension and reform of the Siv programs – talk about the situation, their articulate exhortations carry undertones of angst.
  • (3) You see from those films, there’s a real sexual undertone of menace.
  • (4) Moir, who has won a British Press Award, made a statement defending her column late on Friday, saying it was not her intention to offend, blaming a "heavily orchestrated internet campaign" for the furore and adding that it was "mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones".
  • (5) In a world striving for equal rights, where the female still carries the burden of temporary contraception, the simplicity and popularity of vasectomy for permanent contraception add the desired undertones of social equilibrium.
  • (6) But Revolution, performed at the Regency in San Francisco in a church-like venue that evoked the Moscow cathedral, had repeated dark undertones.
  • (7) "There's an undertone of bad politics and corruption.
  • (8) Aside from such stirring political undertones, dramatic battles will be waged across the 82-award field.
  • (9) There are moments of comedy, but there are some unsettling undertones if you choose to look for them.
  • (10) Words matter and remembering that we were all once strangers in a strange land and that the US is made better in every generation by the arrival of New Americans is central to my campaign.” The Republican party is making a safe space for really racist​​ undertones against undocumented immigrants Professor Jose Luis Benavides Vargas wants candidates to understand that their words matter – even more so in a campaign cycle so far dominated by the bombast of a billionaire businessman who began his campaign by describing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” who are “bringing crime”.
  • (11) But his anti-American undertone alienated Germany and the US from each other – and his rigorous refusal didn't help unify the European countries either.
  • (12) Even when Kerry speaks triumphantly, there is a defensive undertone, as if to anticipate and deflect the criticisms that decades in public life have taught him are headed his way.
  • (13) Adam Goodes has my full support and the full support of the AFL.” The booing Goodes receives from opposition fans has been the subject of much debate with his term as Australian of the year, the way he plays the game and racial undertones all put forward as reasons for the adverse reaction.
  • (14) The note of personal disillusion persists, as so often in Imlah, as an undertone rather than a subject.
  • (15) Lewis Jetta ... clearly believes this to be racist, and it obviously has a racist [undertone].
  • (16) But if Bisping's outlook seems relentlessly positive at times, there is also an undeniable undertone of vulnerability.
  • (17) National anthems: We all know them by now and Uruguay's remains more lovable - a sprightly number with menacing undertones.
  • (18) Now, obviously there is a question about what sort of evidence there is to back up claims that persistent technology use is detrimental to our lives, but it’s often intrigued me that we don’t really consider the undertone to the use of the word ‘zombie’.
  • (19) Realistically, for us to say there wasn’t some racial undertone would be frankly just untruthful.” Crawford also said that the 911 call about his son, which led to the shooting, would probably not have been made if a white man had been walking around the store with the BB rifle.
  • (20) First of all biological psychiatry, based on the methods of the natural sciences, has been the subject of denunciation and underevaluation with deep emotional undertones.