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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#m1)

2) To add a light colour to something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#m2)

3) A dye used to colour hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#m3)

4) Dark film on car windows or glasses to keep out sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#x1)
- In art, we made tints by mixing white into blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#x2)
- The car has tinted windows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#x3)
- Her sunglasses are tinted green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#x4)
- She tinted her hair red for the concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#x5)
- (informal) He looks at his childhood through rose-tinted glasses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#x6)
- The leaves of the forest put on colors of red and gold, and bright tints covered the woodlands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tint» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.