Definitionen
1.NounA contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
2.NounA tinge, trace or touch.
3.NounA mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
4.NounTincture; hue; colour.
5.NounInfection; corruption; deprivation.
6.NounA marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
7.VerbTo contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
8.VerbTo spoil (food) by contamination.
9.VerbTo be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
10.VerbTo be affected with incipient putrefaction."Meat soon taints in warm weather."
11.VerbTo mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
12.VerbTo invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
13.NounA thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
14.NounAn 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.
15.VerbTo damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
16.VerbTo thrust ineffectually with a lance.
17.NounThe perineum.
18.ContractionAlternative spelling of 'taint.