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dye

 
Noun dye has 1 sense
  1. dye, dyestuff - a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
    --1 is a kind of coloring material, colouring material, color, colour
    --1 has parts: chromophore
    --1 has particulars:
     acid dye; alizarin yellow; anil, indigo, indigotin; aniline dye; azo dye; basic dye; bluing, blueing, blue; bromophenol blue, bromphenol blue, tetrabromo-phenolsulfonephthalein; bromothymol blue, bromthymol blue; cochineal; cyanine dye; direct dye, substantive dye; fluorescein, fluoresceine, fluorescent dye, resorcinolphthalein; fluorochrome; hair dye, hair coloring; Kendal green, Kendal; lac dye; lead acetate, sugar of lead; orchil, archil, cudbear; quercitron; radiopaque dye; safranine, safranin, saffranine; Tyrian purple; vat dye, vat color; woad
    Derived form: verb dye1
Verb dye has 1 sense
  1. dye - color with dye; "Please dye these shoes"
    --1 is one way to
    discolor, discolour, colour, color
    Derived forms: noun dyer1, noun dyeing1, noun dye1
    Sample sentence:
    They dye their hair
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