UNSTAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unstained mean? 

• UNSTAINED (adjective)
  The adjective UNSTAINED has 4 senses:

1. not stained

2. not having a coating of stain or varnish

3. without soil or spot or stain

4. (of reputation) free from blemishes

  Familiarity information: UNSTAINED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSTAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not stained

Context example:

An apron keeps his clothing unstained

Similar:

untreated ((of a specimen for study under a microscope) not treated with a reagent or dye)

Antonym:

stained (marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not having a coating of stain or varnish

Synonyms:

unstained; unvarnished

Similar:

unpainted (not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Without soil or spot or stain

Synonyms:

unsoiled; unspotted; unstained

Similar:

clean (free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(of reputation) free from blemishes

Synonyms:

stainless; unstained; unsullied; untainted; untarnished

Context example:

an untarnished reputation

Similar:

unblemished; unmarred; unmutilated (free from physical or moral spots or stains)

 Context examples 

With a sigh he took, with a feeble effort, my hand in that of his own which was unstained.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The determination of the ratio of large unstained cells compared to leukocytes present in a sample.

(Large Unstained Cells to Leukocytes Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A relative measure (ratio or percentage) of the large unstained cells to leukocytes in a biological specimen.

(Large Unstained Cells to Leukocytes Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the number of large unstained cells present in a sample.

(Large Unstained Cell Count, 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)

I am prepared to swear, and so is Bannister, that it was smooth and unstained.

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

They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds—they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A team led by Steven Finkbeiner, M.D., Ph.D., director and senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, and professor of neurology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, explored whether computers could be trained to identify structures in unstained cells.

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