The difference between Tint and Tone

When used as nouns, tint means a slight coloring, whereas tone means a specific pitch.

When used as verbs, tint means &nbsp, whereas tone means to give a particular tone to.

Tint is also contraction with the meaning: it is not.

Tone is also pronoun with the meaning: the one (of two).

check bellow for the other definitions of Tint and Tone

  1. Tint as a noun:

    A slight coloring.

  2. Tint as a noun:

    A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)

  3. Tint as a noun:

    A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

    Examples:

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

  4. Tint as a noun:

    A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

  1. Tint as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

      To shade, to color.

  1. Tone as a noun (music):

    A specific pitch.

  2. Tone as a noun (music):

    (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.

  3. Tone as a noun (music):

    (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.

  4. Tone as a noun:

    The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.

  5. Tone as a noun:

    General character, mood, or trend.

    Examples:

    "Her rousing speech gave an upbeat tone to the rest of the evening."

  6. Tone as a noun (linguistics):

    The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.

  7. Tone as a noun (dated):

    A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice.

    Examples:

    "Children often read with a tone."

  8. Tone as a noun (literature):

    The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.

  9. Tone as a noun (obsolete):

    State of mind; temper; mood.

  10. Tone as a noun:

    The shade or quality of a colour.

  11. Tone as a noun:

    The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.

    Examples:

    "This picture has tone."

  12. Tone as a noun:

    The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus

  13. Tone as a noun (biology):

    The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

  14. Tone as a noun (biology):

    Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.

  1. Tone as a verb (transitive):

    to give a particular tone to

  2. Tone as a verb (transitive):

    to change the colour of

  3. Tone as a verb (transitive):

    to make (something) firmer

  4. Tone as a verb (intransitive):

    to harmonize, especially in colour

  5. Tone as a verb (transitive):

    To utter with an affected tone.

  1. Tone as a pronoun (now, _, dialectal):

    The one (of two).

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