tint
noun/tɪnt/
/tɪnt/
- a shade or small amount of a particular colour; a small amount of colour covering a surface
色调；淡色彩；（一层）淡色，浅色 - leaves with red and gold autumn tints
金秋时节略呈红黄色的树叶 - the brownish tint of an old photo
旧照片的淡褐色 - The fabrics were mainly in rich autumn tints, reds and oranges.
这些纺织品主要以深秋色彩为主——红色和橙色。
Synonyms colourcolourshade ▪ hue ▪ tint ▪ tingeThese words all describe the appearance of things, resulting from the way in which they reflect light.colour the appearance that things have, resulting from the way in which they reflect light. Red, green and blue are colours: What’s your favourite colour?bright/dark/light coloursshade a particular form of a colour, especially when describing how light or dark it is. Sky blue is a shade of blue: Her eyes were a delicate shade of green.hue (literary or technical) a colour or a particular shade of a colour: His face took on an unhealthy, whitish hue.tint a shade or small amount of a particular colour; a faint colour covering a surface: leaves with red and gold autumn tintstinge a small amount of a colour: There was a pink tinge to the sky. tint or tinge?You can say: a reddish tint/tinge or: a tinge of red but not: a tint of red. Tint is often used in the plural, but tinge is almost always singular.PatternsTopics Colours and Shapesc2- a warm/rich colour/shade/hue/tint
- a bright/vivid/vibrant/dark/deep colour/shade/hue
- a pale/pastel/soft/subtle/delicate colour/shade/hue
- a light/strong/neutral/natural colour/shade
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dark
- light
- pale
- …
- have
- tint of
- leaves with red and gold autumn tints
- an artificial colour used to change the colour of your hair; the act of colouring the hair with a tint
染发剂；染发 - a blond tint
金黄色染发剂 - to have a tint
染发
- a blond tint
Word Originearly 18th cent.: alteration (perhaps influenced by Italian tinta) of obsolete tinct ‘to colour, tint’, from Latin tinctus ‘dyeing’, from tingere ‘to dye or colour’.