Tinge vs. Tint — What's the Difference?

To apply a trace of color to; tint.

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

To affect slightly, as with a contrasting quality

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

A small amount of a color incorporated or added.

A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace.

A slight added element, property, or influence

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

A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.

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

The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.

A dye for the hair.

(transitive) To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.

To give a tint to or take on a tint.

To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.

A slight coloring.

(intransitive) To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.

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

To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron.

A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste.

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

A slight but appreciable addition;

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

A pale or subdued color

  To shade, to color.

Suffuse with color

A slight coloring.

Affect as in thought or feeling;

A pale or faint tinge of any color.

Dye with a color

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.

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

To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

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

Dye with a color