STAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stained mean? 

• STAINED (adjective)
  The adjective STAINED has 2 senses:

1. marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter

2. having a coating of stain or varnish

  Familiarity information: STAINED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter

Context example:

tear-stained cheeks

Antonym:

unstained (not stained)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a coating of stain or varnish

Synonyms:

stained; varnished

Similar:

painted (coated with paint)

 Context examples 

This is a negative staining method in which background is stained in black and the microbes and microscopic structures of interest remain white.

(India Ink Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

The visual appearance of a chromosome when stained and examined under a microscope.

(Cytogenetic Map, NCI Thesaurus)

Using Deep Learning, Dr. Finkbeiner’s team trained a computer program to analyze brain cells by showing it stained and unstained images.

(Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells, National Institutes of Health)

But the under side is as stained as the upper.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Veer the sheet! and strange it was to him to see how swiftly the blood-stained sailors turned from the strife to the ropes and back.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An immunohistochemical test result indicating that there are neoplastic cells stained positive with the p16 INK4a monoclonal antibody.

(p16 Positive Neoplastic Cells Present, NCI Thesaurus)

When the post-boy and I had carried up the sea-chest and the two canvas bags, there he was sitting in his armchair by the window in his old weather-stained blue coat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of darkly stained macrophages that contain melanin.

(Darkly Pigmented Melanophages Present, NCI Thesaurus)

The cells are stained with a light-sensitive dye, placed in a fluid, and passed in a stream before a laser or other type of light.

(Flow cytometry, NCI Dictionary)

The resulting antigen-antibody complexes fixed on the second gel may then be stained, allowing sensitive and specific qualitative visual identification of paraproteins by electrophoretic position.

(Immunofixation, NCI Thesaurus)