English > dye: 2 senses > noun 1, substance| Meaning | A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair. |
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| Synonym | dyestuff |
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| Parts | chromophore | The chemical group that gives color to a molecule |
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| Narrower | Kendal green, Kendal | A green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant |
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| Tyrian purple | A red-purple to deep purple dye obtained from snails or made synthetically |
| acid dye | dye in which the chromophore is part of a negative ion |
| alizarin yellow | Any of various yellow dyes |
| 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 dye, basic color, basic colour | A dye that is considered to be a base because the chromophore is part of a positive ion |
| bluing, blueing, blue | Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge |
| bromophenol blue, bromphenol blue, tetrabromo-phenolsulfonephthalein | A dye used as an acid-base indicator |
| 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 |
| direct dye, substantive dye | dye with a high affinity for cellulose fibers (cotton or rayon etc.) |
| fluorescein, fluoresceine, fluorescent dye, resorcinolphthalein | A yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted |
| fluorochrome | Any of various fluorescent substances used in fluorescence microscopy to stain specimens |
| hair dye, hair coloring, tint | A dye or tint for the hair |
| lac dye | scarlet dye like cochineal |
| lead acetate, sugar of lead | A poisonous white solid (Pb[CH3CO]2) used in dyeing cotton / cotton and in making enamels / enamels / enamels and varnishes |
| orchil, archil, cudbear | A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens |
| quercitron | A yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree |
| radiopaque dye | dye that does not allow the passage of X rays or other radiation |
| safranine, safranin, saffranine | Any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes |
| vat dye, vat color | 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 |
| woad | A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant |
| Broader | coloring material, colouring material, color, colour | Any material used for its color |
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| Spanish | colorante, color, tinte, tintura |
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| Catalan | colorant, color, tint |
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| Verbs | dye | color with dye |
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