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Definition: Dyed |
DyedAdjective1. Colored or impregnated with dye. 2. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: DyedSynonyms: bleached (adj), colored (adj), coloured (adj), tinted (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: undyed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affections | Inborn, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate; pathoscopic; congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain. |
Cooperation | Adjective: cooperating; Verb: in cooperation; Noun: in league; (party); coadjuvant, coadjutant; dyed in the wool; cooperative; additive; participative; coactive, synergetic, synergistic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Just picture your wife fifteen years younger, twenty pounds lighter, her hair dyed, her nose operated on. The same girl (The Smiling Lieutenant; writing credit: Henri Bataille; Felix Dormann) That was a thirty-two dollar sweater, missy, and you dyed it black, didn't you (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael; writing credit: Karen Leigh Hopkins) | |
Lyrics | Whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair and who likes earrings (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) She gone and dyed her hair red (Three Marlenas; performing artist: The Wallflowers) | |
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![]() | Photographed on board ship, probably at the time of the Vera Cruz incident, circa April 1914. These sailors are wearing Marine Corps flannel shirts and khaki trousers, with dyed "white hats". They are posing with M1903 "Springfield" rifles and at least one man is wearing an ammunition belt. The ship may be USS South Carolina (BB-26). Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Men of the USS Michigan (BB-27) Battalion on the outskirts of Vera Cruz, circa late April 1914. They are wearing dyed "Whites" and are armed with a Colt M1895 machine gun and M1903 rifles. Note the colorful bandannas worn by two of these men. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Dyed woolen skeins of thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weaving project. Costilla, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Blue Daisies" by Velda Christensen Commentary: "These are just some blue daisies I bought for myself. I think they're dyed blue, but they're kinda cute anyway." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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St. Jerome | Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Let there be one measure of wine throughout our whole realm; and one measure of ale; and one measure of corn, to wit, "the London quarter"; and one width of cloth (whether dyed, or russet, or "halberget"), to wit, two ells within the selvedges; of weights also let it be as of measures. (reference) |
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Business | Dyed cloth makes up around 80% - 87% of the country’s total production of cloth. (references) | |
Based on the ratio, production growth of dyed fabrics over the past five years is as shown in the following table. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dyed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 37.04% of the time. "Dyed" is used about 162 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 37.04% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 30.25% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30.25% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.47% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 162 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dyed": aniline dyed ♦ be dyed ♦ dyed agate ♦ dyed in grain ♦ dyed in the wool ♦ top dyed. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dyed": dyed-blonde, dyed-in-the, dyed-in-the-grain, dyed-in-the-wool, dyed-in-the-wool yarn-dyed. | |
Ending with "dyed": tie-dyed. | |
Containing "dyed": double-dyed villain. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i ngjyer (floury, ingrain, ingrained), i lyer (tinted). (various references) | |
Arabic | مصبوغ (colored, coloured), مخضب (pigmental, tinged). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | закостенял (dyed in the wool). (various references) | |
Chinese | 洗染 (Dyeing). (various references) | |
Czech | barvený. (various references) | |
Danish | univare (plain dyed fabric), spindkagefarvet (cake dyed), klædestof fremstillet af farvet løsuld (cloth dyed in the wool), gennemfarvede fibre (fibres dyed in the mass), film med farvet emulsions-underlag (dyed-base film), farvet stof (dyed fabric, dyed woven fabric), farvet som tops (top dyed), farvet haar (dyed hair), farvet garn (coloured yarn, dyed yarn), farvet agat (dyed agate), ensfarvet vare (plain dyed fabric), anilinfarvet (aniline dyed). (various references) | |
Dutch | vat-geverfd leder (aniline dyed), textielvezels die in de massa zijn gekleurd (fibres dyed in the mass), geverfde stof (dyed fabric), geverfd weefsel (dyed woven fabric), geverfd haar (dyed hair), geverfd garen (dyed yarn), gekleurde agaat (dyed agate), film met geverfde basis (dyed-base film). (various references) | |
Finnish | värjäyttää (have dyed), värjätty perusfilmi (dyed-base film), aniliinivärjätty (aniline dyed, aniline stained). (various references) | |
French | teintes, teint, teignit, teignis, teignirent, teignîmes. (various references) | |
German | gefärbt (artificially colored, biased, coloured, slanted, tinged, tinted), färbte (colored, coloured, tinctured, tinted). (various references) | |
Greek | έβαψε τα μαλλιά του μαύρα (he dyed his hair black), έβαψε τα μαλλιά του (he dyed his hair), έβαψε τα μαλλία του μαύρα (he dyed his hair black), βαμένα αυγά (dyed eggs), βαμένο ύφασμα (dyed fabric), βαφή φυτιλιού (top dyed), νήμα βαμμένο στο φούρνο,σε ταψί (cake dyed), υφαντικές ίνες βαμμένες στη μάζα (fibres dyed in the mass), φιλμ χρωστικού υποστρώματος (dyed-base film), τρίχες βαμμένες (dyed hair), δέρμα χρωματισμένο με χρώμα ανιλίνης (aniline dyed), δέρμα ανιλίνης (aniline dyed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | festett (painted). (various references) | |
Indonesian | celupan (dyed article, dyeing). (various references) | |
Italian | tinto in tops (top dyed), tinto in focaccia (cake dyed), tinto all'anilina (aniline dyed), tessuto tinto in lana (cloth dyed in the wool), tessuto tinto (dyed woven fabric), tessuto a tinta unita (plain dyed fabric), stoffa tinta (dyed fabric), film con base dipinta (dyed-base film), filato tinto (dyed yarn), fibre tessili tinte in massa (fibres dyed in the mass), capelli tinti (dyed hair), agata tinta (dyed agate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 茶髪 (hair dyed brown), 黒く染まる (to be dyed black), 筋金入り (dyed-in-the-wool, hardcore, staunch), 染物 (dyed goods, goods to be dyed), 染め色 (dyed color), 染め糸 (dyed thread or yarn), 染め物 (dyed goods, dyeing), 染め型 (dyed pattern, dyeing stencil), 染め模様 (dyed pattern), 染め上がり (being dyed), 染め分け (dyed in various colors), 染み付く (to be dyed in deeply, to be indelibly stained or ingrained), 墨染め (dark, dyed black, dying black), 付く (to accompany, to adhere, to adjoin, to be added to, to be attached, to be connected with, to be dyed, to be recorded, to be scarred, to be stained, to become allied to, to follow, to increase, to start, to study with). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すじがねいり (dyed-in-the-wool, hardcore, staunch), すみぞめ (dark, dyed black, dying black), そめがた (dyed pattern, dyeing stencil), くろくそまる (to be dyed black), そめいろ (dyed color), そめいと (dyed thread or yarn), そめあがり (being dyed), そめわけ (dyed in various colors), そめもの (dyed goods, dyeing, goods to be dyed), そめもよう (dyed pattern), しみつく (to be dyed in deeply, to be frozen to, to be indelibly stained, to be indelibly stained or ingrained, to be ingrained, to freeze to), つく (comes on, to accompany, to adhere, to adjoin, to arrive at, to attach to, to attack, to be added to, to be attached, to be connected with, to be dyed, to be recorded, to be scarred, to be stained, to become allied to, to breathe, to catch fire, to disgorge, to follow, to haunt, to increase, to nudge, to pick at, to poke, to possess, to reach, to settle in, to start, to strike, to study, to study with, to take, to tell, to thrust, to vomit), ちゃぱつ (hair dyed brown). (various references) | |
Korean | 염색하는. (various references) | |
Manx | daahit (coloured, painted, pigmented, stained). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yedday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | direito (claim, correct, dexter, downright, dyed-in-the, endlong, entitlement, erect, freehearted, jurisprudence, justice, law, lien, respectable, right, righteous, righthand, royalty, standing, stand-up, straight, straightaway, straightforward, title, unswerving, upright, upstanding, vertical, warrant), tinto em queijo (cake dyed), tinto em fita (top dyed), tingimento a anilina (aniline dyed), tecido tinto na rama (cloth dyed in the wool), tecido tinto (dyed fabric, dyed woven fabric), tecido liso (plain dyed fabric), sincero (artless, candid, convinced, cordial, deep, direct, downright, dyed-in-the, earnest, frank, freehearted, guileless, heartfelt, hearty, honest, ingenuous, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, simple, simple-hearted, sincere, single-hearted, straight, straightforward, strong, true, true-hearted, unaffected, undisguised, unfeigned, unvarnished, whole-hearted, whole-souled), película com base colorida (dyed-base film), franco (above-board, bluff, candid, clear, direct, downright, dyed-in-the, forthright, franc, frank, freehearted, guileless, honest, ingenuous, large-hearted, non-partisan, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, plump, simple, simple-hearted, sincere, single-hearted, straightforward, unconcealed, undisguised, unequivocal), fio tinto (coloured yarn, dyed yarn), fibras têxteis tintas em bruto (fibres dyed in the mass), completo (absolute, all out, all-around, all-out, all-round, arrant, bijou, clean, complete, completed, done, downright, dyed-in-the, egregious, entire, exhaustive, freehearted, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, plumb, precious, round, run-down, sheer, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unabridged, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole), cabelo corado (dyed hair), ágata tinta (dyed agate). (various references) | |
Romanian | colorat (colored, coloured, florid, painted, ruddy). (various references) | |
Russian | красить крашеный, крашеный (colored, coloured, painted). (various references) | |
Scottish | dathte. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | obojen (colored, coloured, painted). (various references) | |
Spanish | colorado (Colorado, colored, coloured, naughty, red, scarlet). (various references) | |
Swedish | oförbätterlig (confirmed, dyed in the wool, incorrigible, irredeemable), av färgat garn (dyed in the wool), anilinfärgat läder (aniline dyed). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งย้อมสี. (various references) | |
Turkish | boyalı (colored, coloured, made up, painted, painty, staining, with make-up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пофарбований (colored, coloured, stained). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngoan cố (bullet-headed, dyed-in-the-wool, froward, opinionated, pertaincious, recalcitrant, tenacious, unadvisable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | madidus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 20, Verse 32 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Usteron de pantwn apeqanen kai h gunh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Novissima omnium mortua est et mulier |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa ealra ytemest wæs þæt wif dead; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the laste of alle the womman is deed. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Last of all the woma dyed also. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Last of all the woman died also. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Last of all the woman died also. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And last of all, the woman came to her end. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 20, Verse 32 |
| Bulgarian | А после умря и жената. |
| Cebuano | Ug unya ang babaye usab mamatay. |
| Croatian | Naposljetku umrije i žena. |
| Danish | Men til sidst døde også Hustruen. |
| Dutch | En ten laatste na allen stierf ook de vrouw. |
| Finnish | Viimeiseksi vaimokin kuoli. |
| French | Enfin, la femme mourut aussi. |
| German | Zuletzt nach allen starb auch das Weib. |
| Haitian Creole | Apre yo tout fin mouri, fanm lan mouri poutèt pa l' tou. |
| Hungarian | Mind ezek után pedig meghalt az asszony is. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Akhirnya wanita itu meninggal juga. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Kemudian sekali matilah pula perempuan itu. |
| Italian | Da ultimo anche la donna morì. |
| Korean | 그 후 에 여 자 도 죽 었 나 이 다 |
| Latvian | Beigâs pçc visiem nomira sieva. |
| Maori | Na muri iho i te katoa ka mate hoki te wahine. |
| Norwegian | Til sist døde også kvinnen. |
| Portuguese | Depois morreu também a mulher. |
| Rumanian | La urma tuturor, a murit wi femeia. |
| Russian | РПУМЕ ЧУЕИ ХНЕТМБ Й ЦЕОБ; |
| Shuar | Tura ukunam nuwasha jakamai. |
| Swahili | Mwishowe akafa pia yule mwanamke. |
| Swedish | Slutligen dog ock hustrun. |
| Uma | Ka'omea-na mate wo'o-imi-hawo tobine toei. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "dyed": overdyed, redyed, undyed. (additional references) | |
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"Dyed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deye, deyt, dide, di'ed, diex, djed, dred, dryde, dryed, dryet, dwed, d'ya, dyade, dyd, dyee, D'yeh, dyen, dyid, dyked, oyed, tyed, yed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dyed" (pronounced dī"d) |
| 3 | d ī" d | died. |
| 2 | -ī" d | abide, allied, alongside, applied, aside, astride, belied, beside, betide, bide, bride, chide, coincide, collide, complied, confide, cried, decide, decried, defied, denied, deride, lied, divide, dried, Eide, eyed, flied, fried, glide, guide, hide, implied, inside, misapplied, misguide, nationwide, outside, oversupplied, pied, plied, preside, pride, pried, provide, relied, replied, reside, retried, ride, shied, side, sighed, slide, snide, spied, Stateside, stride, subdivide, subside, supplied, tide, tied, tried, untied, untried, upside, vide, vied, wide, worldwide. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eddy. | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-y" | |
-1 letter: dey, dye. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-y" | |
+1 letter: deedy, dyked, teddy. | |
+2 letters: daybed, deadly, drayed, dynode, redyed, undyed, yarded, yodled. | |
+3 letters: addedly, datedly, daybeds, dayside, dazedly, deadeye, decayed, decoyed, delayed, diddley, doddery, dodgery, dramedy, dryades, dyeweed, dyewood, dynodes, eddying, fadedly, hydride, jadedly, lyddite, yielded, yodeled. | |
+4 letters: aldehyde, bendayed, bladdery, cyanided, daydream, daysides, deadeyes, deeryard, defrayed, deployed, deucedly, dialysed, dialyzed, diddleys, dismayed, disyoked, doggedly, domesday, drudgery, dyeweeds, dyewoods, hiddenly, hoydened, hydrated, hydrides, lyddites, overdyed, peddlery, saddlery, shuddery, skydived, soddenly, suddenly, vandyked, yodelled. | |
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