Taint

Taint or tainted may refer to:

Impurities

• Contamination, the presence of a minor and unwanted element (a contaminant)
  • a wine fault, such as cork taint, ladybird taint, or phenolic taint, producing undesirable odors or tastes in bottled wine
  • Infection, the colonization of a host organism by parasites
  • 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

Titles

• The Taint (novel) (or Doctor Who and the Taint), a novel written by Michael Collier and based on the British television series Doctor Who
• Taint (band), a sludge-metal band from Wales
• The Taint (film), a 1915 American silent film
• Tainted (film), a 1987 American film

Other uses

• Taint (anatomy), colloquial name for the space between the anus and scrotum
• Tint, an archaic form, referring to a color mixed with white
• Tainted kernel, when proprietary modules are loaded into Linux