Dye

/daɪ/ · noun

Meaning

A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied..

Definitions by Sense

1. A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
2. Any hue or color.
3. (ambitransitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
4. Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”).

Example Sentences

While the yarn is soaking in its water and vinegar bath, I prepare a selection of dyes for my preferred colorway. Isolate each dye in its own jar and place it in the larger dyepot.

You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?

But tho’ Black cannot be Dyed to the laſt perfection either in Wool or Hair without Woad, the Hatters have quite left off their accuſtomed uſe of it in the Dying of Hatts, and believe at the ſame time, that too ſtrong a Black makes the Hairs or Nap fall off, which is very neceſſary for the ſale and beauty of the Hatts, though this rather proceeds from the hand of the Workman that dreſſes them than in Dying them, or the Hairs not being ſufficiently fulled, or ſtrongly enough united to the felt; […]

If indeed sharks were inclined to eat people, the world's oceans would be dyed crimson with the blood of millions.

From there, customization simply becomes a matter of crafting trims at a smithing table, then dyeing them “using gems and ingots like diamonds, copper, and netherite.”

I found this 4-500 Mesh Nylon Strainer Flour Sieve handy and budget-friendly, especially for those who dye often and want to keep solids out of their pots effortlessly.

The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.

If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;

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Word Forms

• dyes
• die
• dyeing
• dying
• dyed
• dyce

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