dye

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  1. noun A substance used to color materials. Also called dyestuff.
  2. noun A color imparted by dyeing.
  3. transitive verb To color (a material), especially by soaking in a coloring solution.

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  • If the dye is there for more than about 15 minutes, you have a leak and you can put a stop to it ahead of time. —  WindyBits - Main
  • This method employs the cell-permeable Mitotracker Red CMXRos dye, that is only taken up and retained by mitochondria with an intact membrane potential. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Though not dispositive (cells losing mitochondrial membrane potential either through the opening of the permeability transition pore or through other means have been shown to recover from apoptotic insults), neurons taking up and retaining this dye were scored as "healthy" compared with their dye-negative counterparts, by counting ten separate fields on each slide by two individuals in a blinded fashion. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • "The chemicals produced when the dye is activated harm the bacteria in such a wide variety of ways that it is unlikely bacteria could ever develop resistance to the treatment," said Dr Omar. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • They used henna, an orange-red dye which is made from the leaves of African shrubs, to dye their fingernails, palms, and soles of their feet.
 

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ink ·  colors ·  soap ·  chemical ·  wool ·  textile ·  coloring ·  hue ·  pigment ·  paint ·  indigo ·  silk

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dye:   dyeing ·  dyes ·  dyed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English deie, from Old English dēag, dēah.

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  1. Formerly also die; from Middle English dyen, dien, deyen, from Anglo-Saxon deágian, dēgian, dye, color, from deág, deáh, a dye, color, from deágan, a strong verb found only once, in preterit deóg, dye, tinge, prob. (like tinge, from Latin tingere), orig. wet, moisten, and allied to Anglo-Saxon deáw, English dew, and so to English dag, dew, and deg, moisten, sprinkle: see dew.
  2. from Middle English *deye, *deghe (not found), from Anglo-Saxon deág, deáh, a dye, color: see the verb, which is orig. from the noun.
 

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