What's the difference between tint and touch?

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.

Touch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling.
  • (v. t.) To come to; to reach; to attain to.
  • (v. t.) To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  • (v. t.) To relate to; to concern; to affect.
  • (v. t.) To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
  • (v. t.) To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
  • (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
  • (v. t.) To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  • (v. t.) To infect; to affect slightly.
  • (v. t.) To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
  • (v. t.) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
  • (v. t.) To perform, as a tune; to play.
  • (v. t.) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  • (v. t.) To harm, afflict, or distress.
  • (v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
  • (v. t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
  • (a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
  • (v. i.) To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
  • (v. i.) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
  • (v. i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
  • (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
  • (v.) The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
  • (v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.
  • (v.) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  • (v.) An emotion or affection.
  • (v.) Personal reference or application.
  • (v.) A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
  • (v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  • (v.) Feature; lineament; trait.
  • (v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
  • (v.) A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
  • (v.) A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
  • (v.) A slight and brief essay.
  • (v.) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  • (v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  • (v.) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.
  • (v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
  • (n.) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
  • (n.) A boys' game; tag.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (2) He was very touched that President Nicolas Sarkozy came out to the airport to meet us, even after Madiba retired.
  • (3) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (4) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (5) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
  • (6) In 120 consecutive patients who had colonic roentgenologic examination and no depressive sign, two had coccygeal and muscular pain at rectal touch.
  • (7) The Tories were seen as out of touch and for the few.
  • (8) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
  • (9) A growing educated middle class is losing touch with apartheid history and seeking alternatives.
  • (10) Single cells in pairs or clusters of touching cells in each exposure group were examined with FRAP.
  • (11) Conroy, out at the ovarian cancer event we’ve already touched on, was unrepentent as he was chased down the corridor by reporters.
  • (12) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
  • (13) I tweet, check Facebook, chat with friends, keep in touch with colleagues, check in using Foursquare, use it to check work emails from home and organise notes using Evernote.
  • (14) 1-1 2.15am GMT 48 mins Giles Barnes is down again, turning his ankle under a challenge (but not actually touched by the tackle).
  • (15) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.
  • (16) When the plane bringing his friend in touched down, they were greeted with a recorded welcome from the Queen telling them that they had now arrived in a safe country.
  • (17) We analyzed the trophoblast subpopulations which appear on touch smears of chorionic villi morphologically and immunohistochemically, using the uterine contents of 37 cases of induced abortion.
  • (18) Bill Clinton (@billclinton) Just touched down in Africa with @ChelseaClinton .
  • (19) Right now I think the discussion is not honest and practical, it is hysterical and political.” In contrast to the IOC, which did not contact McLaren, he said the International Paralympic Committee had been in close touch as it decides on whether to ban the Russian team.
  • (20) Rat pups from 12 litters were handled daily, once every three days, or never touched between postnatal Days 5 and 20.