tint

«tint» in Mova's school dictionary: A slight shade of a colour, a pale or light version of it — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a tint, tints); verb (tint, tints, tinted, tinting)

meaning for a pupil

1) A slight shade of a colour, a pale or light version of it. tree →

2) To add a light colour to something. tree →

3) A dye used to colour hair. tree →

4) Dark film on car windows or glasses to keep out sun. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art lessons pupils learn that a tint is made by adding white to a colour (and a «shade» by adding black). In everyday life: tinted windows, tinted sunglasses, hair tint. In stories: «the sky had a pink tint at sunset». Phrases: «a tint of», «tinted glass», «tinted windows», «rose-tinted glasses».

examples

• The sky had a pink tint as the sun went down. tree →
• In art, we made tints by mixing white into blue. tree →
• The car has tinted windows. tree →
• Her sunglasses are tinted green. tree →
• She tinted her hair red for the concert. tree →
• (informal) He looks at his childhood through rose-tinted glasses. tree →
• The leaves of the forest put on colors of red and gold, and bright tints covered the woodlands. tree →

note

Countable: «tints». «Rose-tinted glasses» (UK, also «rose-colored» in the US) means seeing things as better than they were. In art: tint = colour + white; shade = colour + black; tone = colour + grey.

In the corpora

• Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint, and adding black makes a darker shade.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tint» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.