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tints

The correct spelling is tints.

How to pronounce tints

/tɪnts/
noun

IPA: /tɪnts/

Say it like: Tin-ts

The correct spelling is tints. A slight coloring. For example: "Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints."

Usage Examples

Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A slight coloring.
  2. 2.A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
  3. 3.A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
  4. 4.A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

verb

  1. 1.To shade, to color.

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