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tint

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tint
1. a shade of a colour, esp a pale one
2. a colour that is softened or desaturated by the addition of white

tint [′tint]
(graphic arts)
An even tone area on a printed page, often produced by screening black or a color to give a lighter shade.
(optics)
The mixture of a pure color with white.

tint
A light color made by mixing a small amount of the pure color with a large amount of white.

1.TINT - Interpreted version of JOVIAL.

[Sammet 1969, p. 528].
2.tint - hue


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In the horse we see this tendency strong whenever a dun tint appears--a tint which approaches to that of the general colouring of the other species of the genus.
Barbicane also noticed large craters, without any interior cones, which shed a bluish tint similar to the reflection of a sheet of steel freshly polished.
Far away on each hand stretch the rich pastures, and the patches of dark earth made ready for the seed of broad-leaved green crops, or touched already with the tint of the tender-bladed autumn-sown corn.
 
 
 
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