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tinct

 (tĭngkt)
n.
A color or tint.
adj.
Colored lightly or faintly; tinged.

[Middle English, a transforming elixir, from Latin tīnctus, a dyeing, from past participle of tingere, to dye.]
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tinct

(tɪŋkt)
n, vb
an obsolete word for tint
adj
(Poetry) poetic tinted or coloured
[C15: from Latin tinctus, from tingere to colour]
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tinct

(tɪŋkt)

v.t.
1. to tinge or tint, as with color.
2. Obs. to imbue.
adj.
3. tinged; colored.
n.
4. a tint or tinge.
[1585–95; < Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingere to dye, tinge]

tinct.

tincture.
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tinct


Past participle: tincted
Gerund: tincting

Imperative
tinct
tinct
Present
I tinct
you tinct
he/she/it tincts
we tinct
you tinct
they tinct
Preterite
I tincted
you tincted
he/she/it tincted
we tincted
you tincted
they tincted
Present Continuous
I am tincting
you are tincting
he/she/it is tincting
we are tincting
you are tincting
they are tincting
Present Perfect
I have tincted
you have tincted
he/she/it has tincted
we have tincted
you have tincted
they have tincted
Past Continuous
I was tincting
you were tincting
he/she/it was tincting
we were tincting
you were tincting
they were tincting
Past Perfect
I had tincted
you had tincted
he/she/it had tincted
we had tincted
you had tincted
they had tincted
Future
I will tinct
you will tinct
he/she/it will tinct
we will tinct
you will tinct
they will tinct
Future Perfect
I will have tincted
you will have tincted
he/she/it will have tincted
we will have tincted
you will have tincted
they will have tincted
Future Continuous
I will be tincting
you will be tincting
he/she/it will be tincting
we will be tincting
you will be tincting
they will be tincting
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been tincting
you have been tincting
he/she/it has been tincting
we have been tincting
you have been tincting
they have been tincting
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been tincting
you will have been tincting
he/she/it will have been tincting
we will have been tincting
you will have been tincting
they will have been tincting
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been tincting
you had been tincting
he/she/it had been tincting
we had been tincting
you had been tincting
they had been tincting
Conditional
I would tinct
you would tinct
he/she/it would tinct
we would tinct
you would tinct
they would tinct
Past Conditional
I would have tincted
you would have tincted
he/she/it would have tincted
we would have tincted
you would have tincted
they would have tincted
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.tinct - color lightlytinct - color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"
henna - apply henna to one's hair; "She hennas her hair every month"
color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
tincture - stain or tint with a color; "The leaves were tinctured with a bright red"
complexion - give a certain color to; "The setting sun complexioned the hills"
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References in classic literature ?
As he talked, things about us came darkly out of the darkness, and the trampled bushes and broken rose trees outside the window grew dis- tinct. It would seem that a number of men or animals had rushed across the lawn.
"Ah, fair sir, it were woundily hard to tell, they are so many, and do so lap the one upon the other, and being made all in the same image and tincted with the same color, one may not know the one league from its fellow, nor how to count them except they be taken apart, and ye wit well it were God's work to do that, being not within man's capacity; for ye will note --"
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In line with its 'Let's Do More' vision and focus on innovation to provide a disA[degrees] tinct banking experience, Bank Muscat has launched a featureA[degrees]rich mobile banking application introducing uniA[degrees] que services and enhancing existing ones to do more banking from anywhere, anytime, a press release said.
You have to know the truth before you can lie, and for Bernie the Truth is what is required to be true by Marx's scientific theory of history" Is there a decentralist tinct to Sanders?
TINCT But crossing the north London divide may be a step too far.
Then, for each dis- tinct plaintext, the attacker computes the corresponding data value in [F.sup.m.sub.2] by evaluating the m basis linear approximations and increments the counter V[z]of this data value by one.
The two dis tinct peaks at m/z 220 for 4-bromophenyls ulfonyl group and at 156 for 2-methoxy-5-chloroaniline group s upported well the s tructure of s ynthes ized compound.
If we think of the Wake as belonging to the region of delire--"It darkles (tinct, tint) all this our funnaminal world" (FW244.13)--it becomes evident that the reading of the Wake can no longer be conceived as an analytical process, that is, a process of getting down to something essential (a "deep structure," among other things).
However, the outcome is coincidentally reminiscent of the late star's dist tinct style.