DYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dye mean? 

• DYE (noun)
  The noun DYE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DYE used as a noun is very rare.

• DYE (verb)
  The verb DYE has 1 sense:

1. color with dye

  Familiarity information: DYE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DYE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

dye; dyestuff

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"):

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

• DYE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dye    ... he / she / it dyes   
Past simple: dyed   
Past participle: dyed   
-ing form: dyeing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Color with dye

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Please dye these shoes

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)

 Context examples 

A488 is a photostable fluorescent dye with a high quantum yield.

(Anti-PSMA Monoclonal Antibody MDX1201-A488, NCI Thesaurus)

Anthraquinone is used in the manufacture of dyes, in the textile and pulp industries, and as a bird repellant.

(Anthraquinone, NCI Thesaurus)

These include in vitro cell-kill models and cytostatic dye exclusion tests as well as in vivo measurement of tumor growth parameters in laboratory animals.

(Antitumor Drug Screening Assay, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The person receives an injection of a dye that outlines the vessels on the x-ray.

(Arteriogram, NCI Dictionary)

A microscopy acid fast staining method that utilizes auramine O, a bright yellow ketonimine dye, which binds to the mycolic acid in the cell walls of acid fast microorganisms.

(Auramine Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

The arteries can be seen because of an injection of a dye that outlines the vessels on the x-ray.

(Arteriography, NCI Dictionary)

The blood vessels can be seen because of an injection of a dye that shows up in the x-ray.

(Angiography, NCI Dictionary)

The person receives an injection of dye to outline the vessels on the x-ray.

(Angiogram, NCI Dictionary)

A polycyclic aromatic dye with antineoplastic, antimicrobial and imaging activities.

(Acridine, NCI Thesaurus)

Acids have a sour taste and turn certain dyes red.

(Acid, NCI Dictionary)