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单词 tingeing
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tingeingadj.

Brit. /ˈtɪn(d)ʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtɪndʒɪŋ/
Forms: 1600s– tinging, 1600s– tingeing.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: tinge v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < tinge v. + -ing suffix2.In tingeing frog n. at Compounds after scientific Latin Rana tinctoria ( G. Cuvier Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux (1798) 295).
That tinges something (in various senses of the verb); (Alchemy) that transforms something by acting as or being a tincture (tincture n. 6a); (later also) that colours or tints something. Also as the second element in compounds.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > [adjective]
colouring1597
tingeing1650
tingent1650
infectory1657
staining1789
colorizing1830
pigmenting1906
1650 J. French tr. Paracelsus Of Nature of Things i. 11 in tr. M. Sędziwóg New Light of Alchymie So that now there are brought forth not common Metalls, but Tinging Metalls [Ger. tingierende Metall]. For if Silver bee regenerated (after the manner as wee have spoken) it will afterward tinge [Ger. tingierts] all other Metalls into Silver, so will Gold into Gold, and the like is to bee understood of all the other Metalls.
1728 J. Thomson Spring 53 The yellow-tinging Plague Internal Vision taints.
1807 Jrnl. Nat. Philos., Chem., & Arts July 202 The choice of tingeing substances for colouring the water, with which the prisms were filled, requires some precautions.
1899 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 37 101 With blue instead of yellow as the tingeing colour.
2017 H. Thompson Fictional Matter i. 56 To transmute gold into silver, Boyle employs a piercing solvent that extricates tingeing parts from the bulk of the metal.

Compounds

tingeing frog n. Obsolete a poison arrow frog of South America, Dendrobates tinctorius, the blood of which is said to have been used to change the colour of the plumage of parrots from green to red or yellow.Now sometimes called the dyeing poison arrow frog or dyeing poison dart frog.
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1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 135 Tinging Frog. Rana Tinctoria... Smaller than the European Tree Frog. Native of South America.
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 175 The Tingeing Frog of Southern America (Hylaplesia tinctoria) is worth of a casual notice.
1874 W. H. G. Kingston Western World iii. xiv. 533 Among the frogs is the curious tingeing frog (Hylaplesia tinctoria), which is an inhabitant of the forest.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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