(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.
Vividness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 156 subjects (students and working adults) completed Marks' Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire in one of two formats reflecting item order (blocked, random) under one of three instructional conditions (easy, neutral, difficult) reflecting ease of image formation.
(2) In contrast to height, however, a short term formula for values from birth to near pubescence cannot be applied due to the vivid head growth in the postnatal phase.
(3) Spontaneously recovered alcoholics reported experiencing vivid sensations and images at the time they decided to quit drinking, and they reported subsequent transformations of their personal identities.
(4) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(5) This summer, if all goes to plan, the metaphor will be vividly recast: the Globe's stage will itself become a world.
(6) Thank God, then, for The Execution Of Gary Glitter (Mon, 9pm, Channel 4), which vividly envisions the trial and subsequent capital punishment of pop's most reviled sex offender so you don't have to.
(7) Extremism outside Europe can also affect the continent, as the attacks in Paris so vividly illustrate.
(8) We present a series of four patients with the Charles Bonnet syndrome, which is characterized by recurrent vivid visual hallucinations in the presence of normal cognition and insight.
(9) He gives vivid accounts of the utter chaos of Gallipoli where he shelters under flimsy awnings in shallow holes in the ground, exhausted and starving.
(10) There were moments when Joe was so hurt and which he remembers so vividly.
(11) At such a juncture a writer can inject their own imagination to isolate them from the real world or maybe they can exaggerate the situation – making sure it is bold, vivid and has the signature of our real world.
(12) It was a vivid green morning, the air muggy and sad.
(13) Individuals with frequent nightmares scored higher on hypnotizability, vividness of visual imagery, and absorption.
(14) Although it indicates that there is no disturbance in the vividness of volitional mental imagery in schizophrenia, the presence of abnormal spontaneous imagery cannot be commented upon.
(15) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
(16) It was an obvious inclusion, says Linehan, because it encapsulated the essence of Vivid Music.
(17) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
(18) In this report, a technique is described that evokes a vivid percept of motion of a textured pattern only at isoluminance.
(19) Congestion and vivid reddening of the caecum and marked serosal and submucosal oedema are present.
(20) A detailed conformation analysis vividly demonstrated that the difference in conformational possibilities is manly determined by different conditions of realization of residual interactions.