dye
/dʌɪ
/- For the most part, though, manufacturers adopted recipes using synthetic dyes, or mixtures of synthetic and natural dyes, to provide whatever colors were in demand.
- It was made with natural and synthetic dyes on wool.
- One of the major practical applications of chromophore chemistry is in the manufacture of synthetic dyes, or dyestuffs, for textiles.
Synonyms
- ‘When your mom takes you to the store to buy your hair dye and then dyes it for you, you're not getting the true meaning of punk,’ he states.
- She had used the black hair dye to dye the bottom five inches of her flaming red hair black.
- She wore black and she had dyed her hair black, but the blonde roots were beginning to grow out.
Synonyms
Phrases
dyed in the wool
Derivatives
dyeable
- It is a photosensitive resin composition and color filter comprising a polymer dyeable with an anionic dye, an azide compound and a compound with at least two acrylol groups
- Silk is dyeable, but if it is lined, has trim, or other components - they may not dye.
- Katahdin Tek is made from a highly dyeable polyester filament, allowing even tonal qualities and luxurious drape.
Origin
Old English dēag (noun), dēagian (verb). The noun is not recorded from Old English to the late 16th century, when it was re-formed from the verb.
Both main uses of dye, ‘a substance used to add or change colour’ and ‘to add a colour to’, are recorded in Old English. Soon afterwards they both disappeared, the first until the late 16th century, the second until the late Middle Ages. The world in the meantime was not colourless, so the absence of dye from written records is a puzzle. The basis of dyed in the wool, ‘unchanging in a belief or opinion’, is the fact that yarn dyed in its raw state, before it is woven into a piece of fabric, has a much more even and permanent colour. The practice goes back many centuries, and the sense of ‘unchanging’ is also very old. Nowadays people often use the expression to refer to someone's political or sporting affiliation.