Taint vs. Tint — What's the Difference?

To affect or associate with something undesirable or reprehensible

A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation.

To expose to an infectious agent, toxin, or undesirable substance

A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation.

To subject to decay or putrefaction

A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace.

An undesirable or corrupting influence or association

A shaded effect in engraving produced by fine, close, parallel lines.

An undesirable quality; a defect or shortcoming

(Printing) A panel of light color on which matter in another color is to be printed, as in an illustration.

The perineum.

A dye for the hair.

A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.

To give a tint to or take on a tint.

A tinge, trace or touch.

A slight coloring.

A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.

A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)

(obsolete) Tincture; hue; colour.

A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

(obsolete) Infection; corruption; deprivation.

A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

(programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.

A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

  To shade, to color.

An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

A slight coloring.

The perineum.

A pale or faint tinge of any color.

(transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.

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.

(transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.

A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

(intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.

To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

(intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;

To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.

Dye with a color

To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

(transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

(intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

Tincture; hue; color; tinge.

Infection; corruption; deprivation.

A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.

To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.

To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.

Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.

To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.

Aphetic form of Attaint.

The state of being contaminated

Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon;

Contaminate with a disease or microorganism