tinge vs colour

tinge and colour both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tinge	Yes	No	Yes	No
colour	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

As verbs, colour is a hypernym of tinge; that is, colour is a word with a broader meaning than tinge:

Other hypernyms of tinge include color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize.

As verbs, tinge and colour are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of tinge include color, distort.

tinge (noun)	colour (noun)
a pale or subdued color	a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
a slight but appreciable amount	the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
	the timbre of a musical sound
	interest and variety and intensity
	an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
	(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
	any material used for its color

tinge (adjective)	colour (adjective)
	having or capable of producing colors

tinge (verb)	colour (verb)
color lightly	change color, often in an undesired manner
affect as in thought or feeling	add color to
	affect as in thought or feeling
	give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
	decorate with colors
	modify or bias