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Tinge   /tɪndʒ/   Listen
noun
Tinge  n.  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. "His notions, too, respecting the government of the state, took a tinge from his notions respecting the government of the church."



verb
Tinge  v. t.  (past & past part. tinged; pres. part. tinging or tingeing)  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. "His (Sir Roger's) virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance."
Synonyms: To color; dye; stain.






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"Tinge" Quotes from Famous Books



... slightly incensed by Gibson's deliberate insult in strolling away without acknowledging, by even so much as a nod of his head, their introduction to each other by Consuello. He felt a tinge of ...
— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson

... set our first hen together?" laughed Roger, as he rose to his feet and dragged Patricia to hers beside him. "Come on and let's break it to the Major. You may need me to stand by if it hits him on the bias," and they both laughed with a tinge of uneasiness as they went down the long walk of the garden which on both sides was sprouting and leaving and perfuming in a medley ...
— Blue-grass and Broadway • Maria Thompson Daviess

... in the days of Titian and Giorgione, its greatest masters, she would probably have sat upon a balcony with her locks drawn through a crownless broad-brimmed hat, and covered with dye, to remove some of their rich chestnut hue, and substitute a reddish tinge;—just as this lady is represented as doing in this Venetian book of costumes of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

... of a light gray with a slight green tinge, and are virtually invisible against the greenish mist-gray fields of Europe, excepting only when the sun is behind to project ...
— The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood

... often taken as a guide to its purity and richness in fat. While a yellow tinge is usually characteristic of milks rich in fat, it is not a hard and fast rule, for frequently light-colored milks are richer in fat than yellow-tinged ones. The coloring material is independent of the percentage ...
— Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value • Harry Snyder


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