dye

Word family

dye1 /daɪ/ noun → die

1 [countableC, uncountableU]DC a substance you use to change the colour of your clothes, hair etc 染料

hair dye

染发剂

2. a dye job informalDC someone who has had a dye job has used a substance to change the colour of their hair 染发

Examples from the Corpus

a dye job• Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature.

Examples from the Corpus

dye• Carbonless paper coated with chemicals and dye which will produce copies without carbon paper.• Oil red O and fat red 7B are dyes that are commonly used to stain lipoproteins following electrophoresis. 184.• You can even colour them by mixing a food dye into the half cup of water.• Pots of dye always seemed to be boiling in the back room.• Dozens of eggs were boiled in bright red dye.

Related topics: Colours

dye2 verb [transitiveT]

CCDCto give something a different colour using a dye 〔用染料〕染，给…染色

dye something black/blue/blonde etc

Priscilla’s hair was dyed jet black.

普里希拉的头发染成了乌黑色。

—dyed adjectiveadj

Examples from the Corpus

dye• Wool and silk are the materials that are easiest to dye.• She's dyed her hair red -- it looks so unnatural.• I'm bored with this skirt. I'm going to dye it.• The shorts were dyed pink to deter their theft by jail inmates.• The soles of her feet were dyed with henna, making a brown sandal.

Origin dye1

Old English deah, deag

dye1 noundye2 verb

Chinese

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