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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To apply a trace of color to; tint.
  2. v. To affect slightly, as with a contrasting quality: "The air was blowy and tinged with rain” ( Joyce Carol Oates).
  3. n. A small amount of a color incorporated or added.
  4. n. A slight added element, property, or influence: a tinge of regret.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To imbue or overspread with some shade or degree of color; impress with a slight coloring; modify the tint, hue, or complexion of.
  2. To qualify the taste or savor of; give a taste, flavor, smack, or tang to.
  3. To modify by intermixture or infusion; vary the tone or bent of.
  4. n. A slight or moderate degree of coloration; a shade or tint of color; a modification of hue, tint, or complexion.
  5. n. A modifying infusion or intermixture; a shade of some qualifying property or characteristic; a touch, taste, or flavor.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small amount of something, especially of an added color.
  2. n. The degree of vividness of a color; shade, hue or tint.
  3. v. transitive To add a small amount of color; to tint.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; ; 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
  2. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a pale or subdued color
  2. v. color lightly
  3. v. affect as in thought or feeling
  4. n. a slight but appreciable amount

Etymologies

  1. From Latin tingō. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English tingen, from Latin tingere. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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