DYESTUFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dyestuff mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DYESTUFF (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 ("dyestuff" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "dyestuff"):

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

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

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))

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

aniline dye (any of many dyes made from aniline)

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

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