| 单词 | middle tint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmiddle tint ΚΠ 1727 Visct. Bolingbroke Occas. Writer No. 3. 31 I will endeavour to excel in a much more difficult way, in Softenings and middle Teints; and yet by these to form a Manner so strong, as shall be sufficient for my own Reputation, and for your Service. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 91 There are a sort of middle tints and shades between the two extremes. a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 183 The middle tint, or intermediate passage between the two masses of light and dark. 1882 Catholic World Mar. 813 This he did by printing his pictures not from one block but from three. The first contained only the outlines and deeper shades, the next the middle tints, and the last the fainter shades. 1895 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 5 473 Man is sustained, cheered, by the wide, varied range of Nature's middle tints. middle tint a. Painting: see quots. middle tint, prime tint: see middle n. 7, prime adj. and adv. Compounds. ΚΠ 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xiii. 179 Light and shades..become, as it were, our materials, of which ‘prime tints’ are the principal. By these I mean the fixed and permanent colours of each object, as the green of trees, &c. a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 183 The middle tint, or intermediate passage between the two masses of light and dark. 1848 R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting vi. 211 Although there are but three primitive colours, painters have nine. These are—Yellow, Red, Blue,..Orange, Purple, Green,..Russet, Olive, Citrine... All other gradations of colour are mere tints of the above; dark or light, according as they are mixed with black or white, or according to the proportions in which they are compounded; thus the variety of tints is infinite. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 8 (note) Tints differ from each other in being simply lighter or darker, but hues differ in colour. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 8 In ordinary usage, however, by ‘tints’ we frequently mean colours generally, and the word is often substituted for ‘hues’. 1879 Pole in Nature 6 Nov. 15/2 (note) In technical language mixtures of a colour with white are called tints, with black, shades. < as lemmas |
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