tint

plural tints

1. A slight coloring.
2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
3. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

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

4. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
5. informalautomotiveA vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.

   About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.

   2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36

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   I'd watch as cars marched by like a line of ants. Cars with those cool hydraulics. Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.

   2021, Carol Park, Memoir of a Cashier: Korean Americans, Racism, and Riots

present singular third person tints · participle present tinting · participle past tinted · past tinted

1. intransitivetransitiveTo shade, to color.

   The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

alternative int

1. Yorkshirecolloquialcontractionit is not; it isn't

   Synonyms: it'sn't, s'not, 'tisn't