heliotrope vs tint

heliotrope

noun
  • A light purple or violet colour. 

  • Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species Heliotropium arborescens. 

  • A bloodstone (a variety of quartz). 

  • An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor. 

  • The fragrance of heliotrope flowers. 

  • A plant that turns so that it faces the sun. 

adj
  • Light purple or violet. 

  • Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun. 

tint

noun
  • A slight coloring. 

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

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

  • A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant. 

  • A color considered with reference to other very similar colors. 

verb
  • To shade, to color. 

abbrev
  • it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't 

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