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A tint is a small amount of color added to something, making it just slightly that color, like 'a tint of blue' in a gray sky. It's also used for a light coloring, such as window tint (a colored film on glass, common on car windows) or a hair tint (a light change in hair color).
色調;(玻璃/頭髮)染色
組成from a Latin word meaning 'dyed'.
同家族的字
- tingea closely related word for a slight trace of color or feeling
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tintnoun詞源 1/tɪnt/
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A slight coloring.
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A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
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A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
- Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
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A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
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informalautomotivetransportvehiclesA vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
- About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.
- I'd watch as cars marched by like a line of ants. Cars with those cool hydraulics. Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.
tintverb詞源 1/tɪnt/
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To shade, to color.
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
tintcontraction詞源 2/tɪnt/
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it is not; it isn't
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。