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verb
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To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
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To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
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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.
Examples of tinge in a Sentence
The wood is white, but acquires a rosy tinge after exposure to light.
Another species, possessing flowers with the lower petals white with a red tinge, and the upper yellow and red with a white border, and fruit unarmed, is Ae.
A blue product is obtained at once, but a red tinge often results.
They have received a tinge of Hamitic blood from the Galla people, and have high foreheads, large eyes, straight noses and thick but not pouting lips.
The general colour of the upper parts is yellowish grey, with or without a rusty tinge, which is, however, always noticeable on the head; while the underparts are lighter.
The marble of Hymettus, which often has a bluish tinge, was used extensively for building in ancient Athens, and also, in early times, for sculpture; but the white marble of Pentelicus was preferred for both purposes.
Of the approximate size of an English mastiff, this powerful baboon is blackish grey in colour with a tinge of green due to the yellow rings on most of the hairs.
Copper is a brilliant metal of a peculiar red colour which assumes a pinkish or yellowish tinge on a freshly fractured surface of the pure metal, and is purplish when the metal contains cuprous oxide.
The moral philosophy of Aquinas is Aristotelianism with a Neoplatonic tinge, interpreted and supplemented by a view of Christian dogma derived chiefly from Augustine.
A deep melancholy took possession of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature and of human destiny.
The petals have a lovely pink tinge around the edges.
I could see a faint tinge of color steal back in.
An ingot of tin is pure white (except for a slight tinge of blue); the colour depends, however, upon the temperature at which it is poured - if too low, the surface is dull, if too high, iridescent.
Consequently there was a tinge of theological dogmatism about the whole matter.
About 1200 a collection of fables in Latin prose, based partly on Romulus, was made by the Cistercian monk Odo of Sherrington; they have a strong medieval and clerical tinge.
The last two categories, which do not become prominent anywhere in Europe until the 12th century, had, like all gilds, a religious tinge, but their aims were primarily worldly, and their functions were mainly of an economic character.
The object now changed from a brilliant white to a duller or dimmer light with an orange tinge.
It's a deep black with a bit of a blue tinge to it.
The dark base of the mountainous thunderheads had a greenish tinge.
His attitude is one not of bitterness but of calm hopelessness, with an occasional tinge of disgust or contempt.
Marius had a decided tinge of fanaticism and superstition.
The language often had a theological tinge (never entirely absent), as when the " idea " was spoken of, or " the night of the divine mystery," or the dialectic of the absolute called the " course of the divine life.
Much of the dolerite found in these places has a greenish tinge because of the presence of the mineral olivine.
These sophistications can be most conveniently detected, first by taste and next by saponification, rosin oil and mineral oil remaining unsaponified, hemp oil giving a greenish soap, while rape oil yields a soap with a yellow tinge.
The wood of the hawthorn is white in colour, with a yellowish tinge.
To these experiences, too, we may partly ascribe the reverence for law, for the rights of property, and for the monarchical form of government which he appears to have sincerely felt; and, demagogue as he became in a certain sense, they gave his mind a deep Conservative tinge.
On exposure to light it assumes a greenish tinge.
The leaves are dark green with silky sheen and a slightly reddish tinge.
Spice plantations of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla punctuate the landscape and tinge the atmosphere with a pleasant spicy scent.
She felt a tinge of contempt mingle itself with her pain at having refused him.
Fluid can often be seen underneath the plates, which may also develop a reddish tinge.
The plant was also used in dying clothes, giving a crimson tinge to linen cloth.
These include adding a sepia tinge or shooting the picture in black and white.
There was, you could say, almost a greenish tinge to her.
The slight bluish tinge in the hind wing doesn't count.
Some teeth have a yellowish tinge, some are more beige - very few are actually ' white ' .
Inside, the M&S meat was an alarmingly bright pink; the Waitrose gray with a pinkish tinge in the middle.
Except perhaps for the reddish tinge to some of his skin, where her blows landed on his face.
Beside black with a brownish tinge like me you can find dun (gray) or red also.
This leads to a slight violet tinge at the periphery of the image outlines.
The milk of the cow, which may be taken as typical of all others, and is indeed by far the most important and valuable of all (see Dairy And Dairy Farming), is, when newly drawn, an opaque white fluid, with a yellowish tinge, soft, bland and sweetish to the taste, and possessed of a faintly animal odour.
In its rejection of this doctrine Manichaeism agreed with Neo-Platonism; but, while the latter, notwithstanding all its attempts to conform itself to Christianity, could find no formula by which to inaugurate within its own limits the special veneration of Christ, the Western Manichaeans succeeded in giving their teaching a Christian tinge.
It is true that the nationalistic tinge is found in late writings (Chronicles, Psalms), and that its absence, therefore, is not merely a matter of date; but it is hardly conceivable that an author of any time before the 5th century could have ignored the nationalistic point of view so completely as Proverbs does.
There was still a slight rusty tinge on the edge of some of the feathers on its back which confirmed the identification.
Arranged in an odd figure of eight formation were numerous tall towers, each spewing black smoke, which had an odd greenish tinge.
But, there was also a tinge of sadness to her experiences.
There were about twenty of them without one single tinge of red in their whole twenty faces.
He read the thought upon my features, and his smile had a tinge of bitterness.
There is also a tinge of jealousy and envy as we realize that others are going forward and we seem to be treading water.
Some teeth have a yellowish tinge, some are more beige - very few are actually ' white '.