dye
nounEtymology
From Middle English deye, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“color, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”). Cognates Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.
Definitions
A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
- While the yarn is soaking in its water and vinegar bath, I prepare a selection of dyes for my preferred colorway. Isolate each dye in its own jar and place it in the larger dyepot.
Any hue or color.
To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
- You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?
- If indeed sharks were inclined to eat people, the world's oceans would be dyed crimson with the blood of millions.
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Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”).
- The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.
- If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
A surname.
An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States.
The neighborhood
- synonymcolorant
- synonymtincture
- neighbordiolistic
- neighborink
- neighboranimal dye
- neighborazo dye
- neighborhair dye
- neighborindirect dye
- neighborlac dye
- neighborleuco dye
- neighbormordant dye
- neighbortriarylmethane dye
- neighborvat dye
- neighborvegetable dye
Derived
dyehouse, dye-house, dye job, dyeless, dyelike, dyeline, dye pack, dyepot, dyery, dyestuff, dye-sub, dye tracer, dyewater, dyewood, dyework, dyeworks, of the deepest dye, purple dye murex, tie and dye, tie-dye
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at dye. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at dye. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at dye
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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