Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being stained, as objects for the microscope. See
stain , v., 4 .
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- adjective Able to produce
stains
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being stained (especially of cells and cell parts)
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Examples
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Glass, which isn't corrodible or stainable, is more resilient than granite -- though they both contain high levels of the mineral silica and can chip.
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Interest rates demanded by buyers of its 10-year bonds are now above 7%, a level most analysts feel is unsu-stainable.
Weber Derails Merkel's Unity Express Irwin Stelzer 2011
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And if the meal involved a red sauce, he ate without too many stainable clothes on.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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And if the meal involved a red sauce, he ate without too many stainable clothes on.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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And if the meal involved a red sauce, he ate without too many stainable clothes on.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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And if the meal involved a red sauce, he ate without too many stainable clothes on.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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Stainless steel proved, well, stainable and earned a poor rating because it discolored severely from application of some common materials; wood also stained badly.
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Stainless steel proved, well, stainable and earned a poor rating because it discolored severely from application of some common materials; wood also stained badly.
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To S.stainable Designs J.S. Marcus profiles five international designers who integrate green principles into innovative projects Norman Foster From Berlin's Reichstag dome to London's S.iss Re building, no contemporary architect has left a greater impact on the modern city skyline than Norman Foster, whose high-tech modernism reinvented the skyscraper.
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When America gave away our manufacturing to gain profit for investors we doomed ourselves to economic collapse because the wealth of a nation is in its ability to be self stainable without outside influence.
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