Stained

Definition: Stained

Stained

Adjective

1. Marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter; "a badly stained tablecloth"; "tear-stained cheeks".

2. Having a coating of stain or varnish.

3. Especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stained" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Stained

Killing

Adjective: killing. Verb: murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary, sanguinolent; blood stained, blood thirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody, bloody minded; ensanguined, gory; thuggish.

Crosswords: Stained

Our clothes are stained (Counting Blue Cars; performing artist: Dishwalla)

The Stained Glass at Fairford (1956)

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Books

• Knights in Armor Stained Glass (reference)

• 390 Traditional Stained Glass Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) (reference)

• Masterpieces of Art Nouveau Stained Glass Design: 91 Motifs in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) (reference)

• Nature Designs Stained Glass Pattern Book (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) (reference)

• Ornamental Flower Stained Glass Pattern Book: 83 Designs for Workable Projects (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of Stained Glass (reference)

• Stained Glass (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Sword Stained With Royal Blood (reference)

• Blood Stained Sword (reference)

• How-To Stained Glass Stepping Stone Video (reference)

• Stained Glass For Beginners (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stained Glass (reference)

• Stained Class [Expanded Edition] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

• Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music (reference)

• Stained Glass Reflections: Anthology, 1960-1970 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

In vitro (tissue culture). Long-term cultured confluent AIDS-KS cells stained with Wright-Gimsa. Note the spindle shape and distribution of the cells in longitudinal fan-like arrays. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Long-term cultured AIDS-KS (Kaposi's Sarcoma) cells were injected into a nude mouse. Within 5 days a subcutaneous lesion formed in the induced region with a marked angiogenic response. A cross-section of these new blood vessel formations appear as open spaces, where one can see dividing epithelial cells and some red blood cells. The cells were stained with a Wright-Gimsa stain and are seen at a magnification of 100x. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Photomicrograph of Giemsa stained lung tissue from a patient with fatal human plague, revealing pneumonia, and an abundance of Y. pestis organisms. Credit: CDC.

Histopathologic brain tissue from a rabies patient displaying the pathognomonic finding of Negri Bodies within the neuronal cytoplasm, and stained using H&E stain. Credit: CDC.

The specimen was stained using fluorescein-conjugated antiserum to T. pallidum. The bacterium T. carateum, does not cause syphilis, but does cause a "non-venereal" treponematosis, in the form of skin rash of bluish-black colored spots. Credit: CDC.

Control slide of Nichol's strain of T. pallidum from a rabbit testicle, and stained by fluorescent antibody technique; magnification 54X. The rate of primary, and secondary syphilis in the U.S. declined by 89.2 percent from 1990 to 2000. Credit: CDC.

Microgumma seen in the heart, possess a central zone of necrosis surrounded by large numbers of plasma cells and lymphocytes. Vascular proliferation is present on the periphery. The tissue was stained using H&E technique; magnification 950X. Credit: CDC.

Chorioallantoic membrane infected with variola, stained with rabbit anti-vaccinia conjugate, then viewed using immunofluorescent microscopy technique. Credit: CDC.

Stained glass at the Seamen's Memorial Tower commemorating fishermen who have lost their lives at sea. Credit: Fisheries.

Formosan subterranean termites are feeding on Sudan-red-stained filter paper. Tracking the termites stained with this dye allows researchers to estimate their foraging range and population numbers. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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It was a sickening smile, for the corners of her mouth were stained with blood, and a dark cavity revealed itself there

On the desk before him he read the word Foetus cut several times in the dark stained wood

His black hat was as stained as his coat, and the band, torn half free, flopped up and down as he walked

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Health

Enlargement of a Negri body in Sellers stained brain tissue. (references)

Check Your Work. Dental plaque is hard to see unless it is stained. (references)

Negatively stained Rhabdovirus as seen through an electron microscope. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "stained": aniline stained ♦ be stained ♦ become stained ♦ becoming stained ♦ get stained ♦ oil stained ♦ stained glass ♦ stained wine ♦ tear stained. Additional references.

Beginning with "stained": stained-glass, stained-glass window, stained-glass-effect, stained-looking, stained-oak.

Ending with "stained": beer-stained, dark-stained, earth-stained, food-stained, grease-stained, ink-stained, mud-stained, nicotine-stained, oil-stained, paint-stained, peat-stained, red-stained, salt-stained, sweat-stained, tear-stained, tobacco-stained, travel-stained, water-stained, weather-stained.

Albanian

me njolla (cloudy, spotty), i turpëruar (ashamed, dishonorable, dishonourable, hangdog, humiliated, shamefaced), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, foul, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stinking, vile, villainous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملطخ (soiled, spotted), ‏مبقع (cloudy, pied, speckled, splotchy, streaked, streaky), ‏أسنان مصفرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

оцветен (colored, coloured, illuminated, painted, tinct, tinted), опетнен (fly-blown, maculated, smudgy, sullied, tainted, tarnished). (various references)

Chinese 

弄脏 (Blotted, Blotting, blurred, Blurring, fouled, Fouling, smudged, Smudging, soiled, soiling, staining). (various references)

Czech

zamazaný (smudgy), potřísnìný (bespattered), poskvrnìný (blotchy, dappled, flecky), flekatý (spotty). (various references)

Danish

standardiseret farvet antigen (standardized stained antigen), vindue til kirker (stained glass window for churches), plettet uld (stained wool), misfarvet træ (stained wood), kun nogle faa korn aetses meget moerke,de ligger fordelt i et netvaerk (only a few particles are darkly stained and can be seen to form a network type of distribution), farvet materiale (stained material), den hoejt legerede,overeutektoide cementit aetses ikke af alkalisk natriumpikrat,den legeringsfattigere,perlitiske cementit farves derimod (the highly alloyed hyper-eutectoid cementite is not stained by alkaline sodium picrate but the not so highly alloyed pearlitic cementite is stained), blåt træ (blue stained wood), blåskadet træ (blue stained wood), anilinfinish (aniline stained). (various references)

Dutch

slechts enkele korrels zijn donker gekleurd;deze zijn als een netwerk door de structuur verdeeld (only a few particles are darkly stained and can be seen to form a network type of distribution), tafel-geverfd leder (aniline stained), kerkraam (stained glass window for churches), het hooggelegeerde boven-eutectische cementiet wordt niet aangeëtst door natriumpicraat,maar het niet zo hooggelegeerde perlietisch cementiet wordt wel geëtst (the highly alloyed hyper-eutectoid cementite is not stained by alkaline sodium picrate but the not so highly alloyed pearlitic cementite is stained), glazenier (glazier, stained-glass artist), glasschilder (glazier, stained-glass artist), gevlekt (coloured wine, mottled, stained wine), gevlamd hout (figure of wood, flamy, stained wood), gestandaardiseerd gekleurd antigeen (standardized stained antigen), gebrandschilderd glas (stained glass), door kleuring gemerkt materiaal (stained material), blauwachtig hout (blue stained wood), beschilderd glas (stained glass window). (various references)

Finnish

tahrainen. (various references)

French

tacheté, coloré. (various references)

German

beschmutzt (befouls, begrimes, dirties, draggles, messes, mires, pollutes, smudges, smuts, soiled), befleckte (blotted, maculates, sullied). (various references)

Greek 

χρωματιστόσ (colored, coloured). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוכתם (defiled, notorious, spotted, sullied), מרובב (flecked, maculate, spotted), נאלח (contaminated, dirty, infected, polluted, rotten). (various references)

Hungarian

pecsétes (greasy), foltos (blobby, blotchy, blurry, flawy, foxed, foxy, freckled, mottled, Pinto, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, splodgy, spotted, spotty). (various references)

Indonesian

ternoda, bercalit (smeared, spotted). (various references)

Italian

colorato (colored, colorful, coloured, colourful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

血塗 (blood-stained, desperate struggle), 煤ける (to be sooty, to be stained), 染み着く (to be indelibly stained, to be ingrained), 染み付く (to be dyed in deeply, to be indelibly stained or ingrained), 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), ステレオ放送 (stained glass, stainless, stainless steel, stereo broadcasting, stereotype, steroid), ガラス絵 (picture painted on glass, stained glass). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すすける (to be sooty, to be stained), 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), ステンドグラス (stained glass), ガラスえ (picture painted on glass, stained glass), ちみどろ (blood-stained, desperate struggle). (various references)

Korean 

얼룩이 지는. (various references)

Manx

daahit (coloured, dyed, painted, pigmented). (various references)

Pig Latin

ainedstay.(various references)

Portuguese

manchado (blotchy, brindled, dapple, dappled, foxy, pied, smudgy, splotchy, spotted). (various references)

Romanian

vitraliu (stained glass), plâns (cry, tear stained, tears, weeping). (various references)

Russian 

запятнанный (spotted), пятнать мореный, испачканный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bojen. (various references)

Spanish

manchado (dirties, dirty, smudges, smudgy, soiled, splotchy, spotted, spotty, tarnished). (various references)

Swedish

missfärgat virke (stained wood), missfärgad ved (stained wood), missfärgad ull (discoloured wool, stained wool), målade glasfönster (stained glass window), glasmålningar (stained glass), fläckad ull (stained wool), fönster med glasmålningar (stained-glass window), blåträ (blue stained wood), anilinbetsat läder (aniline stained). (various references)

Turkish

lekeli (blotchy, clouded, dappled, mackled, maculated, smeary, smudgy, splashy, splotchy, spotted, spotty, stigmatic, tainted). (various references)

Ukrainian

забруднений (bedraggled, blurred, contaminated, drossy, feculent, maculate, smudgy, splotchy), заплямований (spotted), пофарбований (colored, coloured, dyed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kính màu (stained glass). (various references)

fah, -fah. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "stained": abstained, bloodstained, counterstained, destained, distained, sustained, tearstained, unstained. (additional references)

Words containing "stained": sustainedly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stained" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: otained, sained, satied, stainder, staine, stainey, staini, staived, stamied, standen, staned, stanine, stayen, Stazione, steined, Steinfeld, stined. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: destain, detains, instead, sainted.

-1 letter: detain, sained, staned, teinds, tenias, tineas, tisane.

-2 letters: adits, aides, anise, anted, antes, antis, aside, dates, deans, deist, dents, diets, dines, dints, ditas, dites, edits, entia, etnas, ideas, inset, nates, neats, neist, nides, nites, saint, saned, sated, satin, sedan, senti, sited, snide, stade, staid, stain, stand, stane, stead, stein, stied, tains, teind.

+1 letter: adenitis, andesite, astonied, audients, dainties, dandiest, depaints, destains, detrains, deviants, distance, handiest, instated, mediants, randiest, sandiest, sedating, sedation, sinuated, steading, strained.

+2 letters: abstained, accidents, actinides, amnestied, andesites, andesitic, antherids, antidotes, antinodes, antipodes, astringed, asyndetic, bastinade, bastioned, botanised, candidest, catenoids, daintiest, datelines, dawsonite, delations, demasting, dementias, desalting, desiccant, designate, destained, detainees, detainers, diamantes, dicentras, dipterans, discanted, disentail, dismantle, distained, distanced, distances, dittanies, dominates, donatives, dynamites, dynasties, fantasied, gradients, ideations, indagates, indicates, indurates, insolated, installed, instanced, instarred, insulated, inswathed, inundates, iodinates, landsleit, misatoned, ordinates, pintadoes, resinated, sanitated, sanitised, sanitized, sedations, sonicated, staidness, standpipe, stationed, steadings, steadying, supinated, sustained, syndicate, tardiness, tarnished, tetanised, tidelands, transited, unstained.