tinge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The verb is derived from Latin tingere, present active infinitive of tingō (“to dip; to moisten; to colour, dye, tinge”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: tinges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tinges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tingeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tinged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tinged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: tinge
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: tinge
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: tinged
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: tinge
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: tingest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: tinged
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: tingedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: tinges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tingeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: tinged
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: tinge
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: tinged
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: tinge
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: tinged
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: tinge
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: tinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tingeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tinged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Though a ſingle grain of copper diſſolved in upwards of twenty gallons of clear water may be detected by a viſible blue tinge appearing on the addition of a few drops of volatile alcali, yet this is by no means the caſe in turbid high-coloured liquors, [...] Hence the neceſſity of diluting ſuch liquors in varying the experiments. In no inſtance did the blue tinge appear with the alcalis, even after the wine was diluted, and yet its abſence does not prove the liquor to be abſolutely free from an impregnation of copper.
And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues—every stately or lovely emblazoning—the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; [...] all these are but subtile deceits, [...]
Crimson—pure red, with a slight tinge of blue, giving it a purplish hue; the common color of red apples. / Scarlet—a bright red, with a slight tinge of yellow.
The scholarly narratives, which maintain a strong claim for truth, will be shown to display variant versions of the same two basic modernist ingredients, scientism and nationalism (Zionism), enriched with tinges of personal non-scholarly knowledge of other human and social domains, such as political science, sociology, and psychology.
Color-vision changes are complex with various manifestations, including frosting or white tinges on objects, decreased brightness or specific color loss.
gloss: The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [page 51] The following are the results of experiments made with rhubarb, to ascertain the best modes of detecting it in the urine and blood, and the time it takes to pass from the stomach to the urinary bladder. [...] [page 52] In 17 minutes, half an ounce of urine was voided, which when tested had a light tinge. In 30 minutes another half ounce was made, in which the tinge was stronger; and in 41 minutes a third half ounce was made, in which it was very deep. In an hour and ten minutes 7 ounces were voided, in which the tinge of rhubarb was very weak, and in two hours twelve ounces were voided, in which it was hardly perceptible.
gloss: A draper's or clothier's markup.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: A retail house […] are in the habit of cutting up, say, a fourpenny Croydon, into dozens; these dozens are marked four shillings and threepence, with one penny "tinge;" so that the privileged customer pays threepence more for the calico "marked up cheap!" […]
gloss: To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [T]he water being ting'd red, cant it off, iterate it ſo long till the Vitriol tingeth the water no more.
A Saline liquor therefore, mixt with another ting'd liquor, may alter the colour of it ſeveral ways, either by altering the refraction of the liquor in which the colour ſwims: or ſecondly by varying the refraction of the coloured particles, by uniting more intimately either with ſome particular corpuſcles of the tinging body, or with all of them, [...]
Amalgam of Silver. [...] Colour ſilvery white or grey: Luſtre metallic: Creaks when cut. Sp[ecific] gravity above 10. Tinges gold white.
In the following passage from Ælian, (lib. xiv. cap. 30.) βαψας seems to be used for denoting merely tinging or imbuing with perfume. The Persian monarch, says Ælian, στεφανον εις μυζον βαψας, επεπλεκτο δε ζοδων ὁ στεφανος, which I would translate, "having tinged (imbued or impregnated) with precious ointment a crown (or garland),—the crown was woven of roses."
As at Walden, in sultry dog-day weather, looking down through the woods on some of its bays which are not so deep but that the reflection from the bottom tinges them, its waters are of a misty bluish-green or glaucous color.
[N]ot, that such a fume, / Instead of giving way to time and health, / Should eat itself into the life of life, / As saffron tingeth flesh, blood, bones and all!
On this mighty tide the black ships [...] are borne along to the town of St Ogg's, which shows its aged, fluted red roofs and the broad gables of its wharves between the low wooded hill and the river brink, tinging the water with a soft purple hue under the transient glance of this February sun.
The general character of muscle may well be studied by examining a piece of beef. It is reddish in colour, but this is due to the presence of blood, which circulates through every part of it. If we steep a piece of beef for a very long time in cold water, a large proportion of blood oozes out and tinges the water, leaving the flesh or muscle of a pale whitish colour.
gloss: To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Hail! nurse of thought, with brow serene; / Who, as the sun, so wont, retires, / And leaves the sky to milder fires, / Tingest with shadowy forms the fading scene, [...]
For the very intensity of the light is all-consuming and it consumes this very vibration of the liar and his lie tingeing the word, the murderer and his murder tingeing their works!
When I think of the love my father never gave me I feel encased in a veil with steel threads. [...] Sometimes a happy thought can make me jump for joy, but I must be careful: if I jump too high, I'll bump into the veil. It doesn't hurt, but it always tinges my joy with sadness.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [H]is virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men.
Taint is here a metaphorical expression. It means literally something which tinges. "The mean and malignant passions" are therefore, first of all, a substance which tinges. This substance which tinges "will creep."
Derived words: tinged
tingent
untinged
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