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dye (d

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1. A substance used to color materials. Also called dyestuff.

2. A color imparted by dyeing.

v. dyed, dye·ing, dyes

v.tr.

To color (a material), especially by soaking in a coloring solution.

v.intr.

To take on or impart color.

Idiom:

of the deepest dye

Of the most extreme sort.

[Middle English deie, from Old English dag, dah.]

dyer n.

dyeing [ˈdaɪɪŋ]

(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Dyeing) the process or industry of colouring yarns, fabric, etc.

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Noun

dyeing - the use of dye to change the color of something permanently

coloring, colouring - the act or process of changing the color of something

staining - (histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study

Translations

dyeing [ˈdaɪɪŋ] N → tinte m, tintura f

dyeing [ˈdaɪɪŋ] n → tintura

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This fortune was a great boon to him; for, though he might have made millions of dollars by exploiting two or three of his chemical discoveries relative to new processes of dyeing, it was always repugnant to him to use for his own private gain the wonderful gift of invention he had received from nature.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Leroux, Gaston View in context

The notable wife of Kamehameha, the renowned conqueror and king of the Sandwich Islands, used to pride herself in the skill she displayed in dyeing her tappa with contrasting colours disposed in regular figures; and, in the midst of the innovations of the times, was regarded, towards the decline of her life, as a lady of the old school, clinging as she did to the national cloth, in preference to the frippery of the European calicoes.

Typee by Melville, Herman View in context

From the west sky a wrathful shine--all that wild March could afford in the way of sunset--had burst forth after the cloudy day, flooding the tired and sticky faces of the threshers, and dyeing them with a coppery light, as also the flapping garments of the women, which clung to them like dull flames.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

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