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DYE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair

Synonyms:

dye; dyestuff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("dye" is a kind of...):

color; coloring material; colour; colouring material (any material used for its color)

Meronyms (parts of "dye"):

chromophore (the chemical group that gives color to a molecule)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dye"):

woad (a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant)

vat color; vat dye (a water-insoluble dye that is applied by reducing the dye to an alkaline form, applying the dye, then regenerating the insoluble dye by oxidation in the material; used for dyeing cotton)

Tyrian purple (a red-purple to deep purple dye obtained from snails or made synthetically)

saffranine; safranin; safranine (any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes)

radiopaque dye (dye that does not allow the passage of X rays or other radiation; used to outline certain organs during X-ray examination)

quercitron (a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree)

archil; cudbear; orchil (a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens)

lead acetate; sugar of lead (a poisonous white solid (Pb[CH3CO]2) used in dyeing cotton and in making enamels and varnishes)

lac dye (scarlet dye like cochineal; extracted with alkali from stick lac)

Kendal; Kendal green (a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant)

hair coloring; hair dye; tint (a dye for coloring the hair)

fluorochrome (any of various fluorescent substances used in fluorescence microscopy to stain specimens)

acid dye (dye in which the chromophore is part of a negative ion)

alizarin yellow (any of various yellow dyes; not related chemically to alizarin but applied in the same manner)

anil; indigo; indigotin (a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically)

aniline dye (any of many dyes made from aniline)

azo dye (any dye containing one or more azo groups)

basic color; basic colour; basic dye (a dye that is considered to be a base because the chromophore is part of a positive ion)

blue; blueing; bluing (used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge)

bromophenol blue; bromphenol blue; tetrabromo-phenolsulfonephthalein; bromothymol blue; bromthymol blue (a dye used as an acid-base indicator)

cochineal (a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects)

cyanine dye (any of a class of dyes containing a -CH= group linking two heterocyclic rings containing nitrogen; used as sensitizers in photography)

direct dye; substantive dye (dye with a high affinity for cellulose fibers (cotton or rayon etc.))

fluorescein; fluoresceine; fluorescent dye; resorcinolphthalein (a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed))

Derivation:

dye (color with dye)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Color with dye

Example:

Please dye these shoes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "dye" is one way to...):

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dye"):

bronze (give the color and appearance of bronze to something)

stain (color for microscopic study)

deep-dye (dye thoroughly)

impress; yarn-dye (dye (fabric) before it is spun)

stain (color with a liquid dye or tint)

fast dye (dye with fast colors)

double dye (dye twice)

hand-dye (dye by hand)

piece-dye (dye after weaving)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They dye their hair

Derivation:

dye (a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair)

dyeing (the use of dye to change the color of something permanently)

dyer (someone whose job is to dye cloth)

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 Context examples: 

A microscopy staining method that utilizes periodic acid, an oxoacid of iodine, Schiff reagent, the reaction product of fuchsine and sodium bisulfite, and Alcian blue, a water soluble copper phthalocyanine dye.

(Alcian Blue and Periodic Acid Schiff Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

A microscopy staining method that utilizes alcian blue, a cationic, water soluble copper-containing phthalocyanine dye to determine the presence of acid mucopolysaccharides and glycosaminoglycans.

(Alcian Blue Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

It is also used as a mordant in textile dyeing and paper manufacture.

(Aluminum Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of series of proprietary fluorescent dyes that span the visible spectrum.

(Alexa Fluor, NCI Thesaurus)

Bases feel soapy or slippery on the skin and they can turn certain dyes blue.

(Base, NCI Dictionary)

A green, crystalline, solid dye that is one of the major components of magenta.

(Basic Fuchsin, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride is a synthetic, light sensitive, white crystalline powder that is soluble in dimethylsulfoxide and ethanol. o-Toluidine and o-toluidine hydrochloride are used primarily as intermediates in the manufacture of dyes and pigments.

(o-Toluidine, NCI Thesaurus)

Granular leukocytes having a nucleus with three to five lobes connected by slender threads of chromatin, and cytoplasm containing fine inconspicuous granules and stainable by neutral dyes.

(Neutrophil, NCI Thesaurus)

They are used as fluorescent dyes that bind to DNA and prevent both RNA and protein synthesis.

(Olivomycin, NCI Thesaurus)

They are used as fluorescent dyes that bind to DNA and prevent both RNA and protein synthesis and are also used as antineoplastic agents.

(Olivomycin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)