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# tint

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

«tint» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A slight shade of a colour, a pale or light version of it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#m1)
2. To add a light colour to something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#m2)
3. A dye used to colour hair. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/#m4)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tint» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tint/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tint» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tint.html) on Mova free.