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Definition: Dyeing |
DyeingNoun1. The use of dye to change the color of something permanently. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dyeing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
Synonym: DyeingSynonym: Coloring. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dyeing |
| English words defined with "dyeing": alder, alder tree, alizarin, alizarine, Arnotto, Asperula tinctoria ♦ Bablah, Beaverteen, Brazil wood ♦ chrome alum, Copperas, Crottles ♦ Dyehouse, dyer's weed, dyer's woodruff, dye-works ♦ Fustic ♦ Gambier, gray goldenrod, Green ebony ♦ hair coloring ♦ Indian madder, Intinction ♦ Jambolana ♦ Kamala, Kermes, Knoppern ♦ lead acetate, lecanora ♦ mordant, Murexide, Myrobolan ♦ Oxalic acid ♦ Parelle, Persian berry, Phrygian stone, Pink salt, Prussian blue ♦ Red liquor, Relbun, rose pink ♦ Safranin, Safranine, Saxon blue, Saxon green, Solidago nemoralis, Solidago rugosa, stannic chloride, Stannous chloride, sugar of lead ♦ tartaric acid, Turnbull's blue ♦ Upland sumach ♦ vat color, vat dye, Violaniline ♦ Yellowwort. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dyeing": Dyeing Scarlet ♦ PACKAGE DYEING MACHINE ♦ superintendent, dyeing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dyeing": Dye ♦ infection, infective ♦ Xanthium. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The above expression, dyestuffs and chemical drugs, includes all synthetic dyes and drugs and intermediate or other products used in connection with dyeing, so far as they are manufactured for sale. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Other additives include binders, dyeing fixtures and waxes. (references) | |
In the textile industry, dyestuff is usually used in the dyeing and printing process. (references) | ||
Unlike other industries, the bleaching and dyeing industry has a long family business tradition. (references) | ||
Economic History | Vietnam | By 2005, VINATEX will invest an additional US $870 million in state-of-the-art printing, dyeing, knitting and sewing facilities. (references) |
Hong Kong | The key industries requiring wastewater control equipment are electroplating, printed circuit board, bleaching and dyeing, food processing and printing. (references) | |
Malaysia | Other major contributors to industrial wastewater pollution are small- to medium-sized factories, mainly electroplating and metalworks, printing, dyeing, and paper factories. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dyeing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 70.18% of the time. "Dyeing" is used about 57 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 (-ing form) | 70.18% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.28% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.53% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.02% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| India | Bombay Dyeing & Mamufacturing Co | Taiwan | Nan-yang Dyeing & Finishing Co. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "dyeing": azoic dyeing ♦ dyeing bath ♦ dyeing machine ♦ dyeing works ♦ wax pattern dyeing. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dyeing": hair-dyeing, package-dyeing, vat-dyeing. | |
| 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 "dyeing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngjyrosje (coloring, colouring), ngjyrim (coloration, colouration, connotation, hue, nuance, overtone, shade, tincture, tinge, tint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صباغة, دهان (dye, paint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | боядисване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 洗" (Dyed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | farvning (coloration, colour, colouring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verven (color, colour, dye, paint, tint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | värjäys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | teinture (dye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | färbend (coloring, colouring, tincturing, tinging, tinting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαφή (colouring, dye, dying, pigment, pigmentation, polishing, stain, tincture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צביע" (painting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | festés (paint, painting, paintwork), szövetfestés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pencelupan (immersion), celupan (dyed article). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tintura (dye, tincture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 色"め , "色 (stain, staining), "め物 (dyed goods), "め付け (blue glazed china), "め (printing), 浸" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そめつけ (blue glazed china), そめもの (dyed goods, goods to be dyed), し"せ" (depth, food and alcohol offering to the gods, fresh, mountain wizard, shade), そめ (printing), せ"しょく (dyeing and weaving, stain, staining), いろぞめ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 염색. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | daaghey (colour, colouration, dye, embroidery, stain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yeingday tinturaria (cleaners). (various references) vopsitoare, vopsit (colored, coloured, lick, painted), vopsire (lick), colorare (colouring). (various references) окраска тканей. (various references) f rdadh (alder bark for dyeing black). (various references) bojadisanje. (various references) tinte (can of paint, dry-cleaner, dye, dyestuff, hue, tinge, tint). (various references) färgning (colouring). (various references) boyanma (staining), boyama (coloring, color-wash, colouring, dye, painting, stain), boyacılık. (various references) фарбування (coloration, colouration), фарбувальна справа. (various references) sự nhuộm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tinctum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dyeing": dyeings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dyeing": overdyeing, redyeing. (additional references) | |
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"Dyeing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ayeing, Denig, dieng, dieying, Di'ing, dineing, diy-ing, doeing, dueing, dyading, dyking, Dyoni, dyring, Edyvean, lyeing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dyeing" (pronounced dī"ing) |
| 4 | d ī" i ng | dying, undying. |
| 3 | -ī" i ng | applying, belying, buying, complying, crying, decrying, defying, denying, drying, eyeing, flying, frying, implying, indemnifying, lying, misapplying, overflying, overlying, plying, prying, relying, replying, retrying, semidrying, shying, sighing, spying, supplying, tieing, trying, tying, underlying, vying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dingey. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-y" | |
-1 letter: deign, dinge, dingy, dying, eying. | |
-2 letters: deni, deny, dine, ding, dyne, edgy, gied, gien, nide. | |
-3 letters: den, dey, die, dig, din, dye, end, eng, ged, gen, gey, gid, gie, gin, yen, yid, yin. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, en, id, in, ne, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-y" | |
+1 letter: defying, denying, dingeys, dyeings, eddying. | |
+2 letters: decaying, decoying, decrying, deifying, delaying, dysgenic, edifying, grindery, gynecoid, readying, redrying, redyeing, synergid, syringed, wingedly, yielding, yodeling. | |
+3 letters: beladying, bendaying, defraying, denyingly, deploying, descrying, embodying, hedgingly, hoydening, rebodying, redefying, redenying, remedying, steadying, synergids, yodelling. | |
+4 letters: bedirtying, decrypting, densifying, deridingly, designedly, destroying, diligently, disobeying, divergency, dysgenesis, enduringly, gynandries, honeyguide, ladyfinger, overdrying, overdyeing, pleadingly, reedifying, resignedly, restudying, semidrying, underlying, unedifying, unendingly, unyielding. | |
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