dye
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dye/dʌɪ/
▶noun a natural or synthetic substance used to colour something. ▶verb (dyes, dyeing, dyed) colour with dye.
– phrases
dyed in the wool unchanging in a particular belief. [with allusion to the fact that yarn was dyed when raw, producing a more even and permanent colour.]
dyed in the wool unchanging in a particular belief. [with allusion to the fact that yarn was dyed when raw, producing a more even and permanent colour.]
– derivatives
dyeable adjective,
dyer noun.
dyeable adjective,
dyer noun.
– origin OE dēag (n.), dēagian (v.).
'dye' also found in these Oxford entries:
acetanilide
- acriflavine
- annatto
- azo dye
- bark
- batik
- bleed
- Brazil
- cochineal
- colourant
- coupler
- crottle
- dyer's greenweed
- dyestuff
- eosin
- ethidium bromide
- fast
- fastness
- fix
- fluorescein
- fuchsin
- fucus
- fustic
- genipapo
- gentian violet
- grain
- henna
- indigo
- isatin
- kermes
- label
- lake
- litmus
- madder
- magenta
- mauve
- methylated spirit
- mordant
- orchil
- orpiment
- overdye
- pernambuco
- picric acid
- puccoon
- purple
- purpurin
- resist
- run
- safflower
