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TINCTURE
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Traducere în limba română
tincture I. substantiv
1. culoare, vopsea.
2. (arte) nuanţă, ton.
3. (med., chim.) tinctură;
mother tincture tinctură concentrată cu care se prepară soluţii mai slabe;
red tincture piatra filozofală.
4. (fig.) lustru, spoială, cunoştinţă superficiala;
to have a tincture of mathematics a avea o spoială de matematici.
tincture II. verb tranzitiv
(with) a vopsi, a boi (cu), a da o zugrăveală / o spoială (de) (şi fig.).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times of eating; upon which side they lay in bed; with which hand they wipe their posteriors; take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green; but quite different, when he thought only of raising an insurrection, or burning the metropolis.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)