taint
EN
[teɪnt] [-eɪnt] 
US WTaint
- Taint may refer to:
- a wine fault, such as cork taint, ladybird taint or phenolic taint, producing undesirable odors or tastes in bottled wine; especially spoilage that can only be detected after opening the bottle
- Contamination, the presence of a minor and unwanted element (a contaminant)
- Infection, the colonization of a host organism by parasites
- Perineum, the region of the human anatomy between the genitals and the anus
- Taint (legal), the quality of illegally obtained court evidence
- Taint checking, a feature of some programming languages that prevents unauthorized users from remotely executing commands on a computer
- NounPLtaints
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
- OBS tincture; hue; colour.
- OBS infection; corruption; deprivation.
- He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. — Macaulay.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- SLA The perineum.
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- VerbSGtaintsPRtaintingPT, PPtainted
- VT To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- VT To spoil (food) by contamination.
- VT To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- VT To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- Meat soon taints in warm weather.
- VT To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- VT To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- VI To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- VT To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- Contraction
- Alternative spelling of 'taint.
- Alternative spelling of 'taint.
Definition of taint in English Dictionary
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- Wiktionary : Frequency lists 10001-20000
- SCOWL (And Friends) : Alan Beale, 12dicts 4.0 Compiled from 3 ESL Dictionaries
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Grammatically, this word "taint" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.