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Definition: Staining |
StainingNoun1. (histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study. 2. The act of spotting or staining something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "staining" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | The back gray is unbleached cotton cloth, whose chief purpose is to protect the blanket and prevent -- by color paste. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Deterioration in transparency caused by a film formed on the surface of the glass by reaction with the atmosphere. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: StainingSynonyms: maculation (n), spotting (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: tarnishing (industry, metallurgy). |
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 | This illustration, with and without text, titled "Pinpointing The Genes In Cancer: Three Key Techniques" explains about 1) chromosome staining, 2)inherited markers and 3) DNA cloning. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Jane Hurd (artist). |  | Bipolar staining of a plague smear prepared from lymph aspirated from an adenopathic lymph node, or bubo, of plague patient. Credit: CDC. |
 | Brucella spp. are poorly staining, small gram-negative coccobacilli (0.5-0.7 x 0.6-1.5 m), and are seen mostly as single cells and appearing like "fine sand". Credit: CDC. |  | Brucella melitensis is a Gram-negative staining coccobacillus, and is the cause of the zoonotic disease, Brucellosis, an illness found in animals, but able to be transmitted to humans. Credit: CDC. |
 | Immunofluorescence is a staining technique used to detect and help diagnose the H. influenzae bacterium. Credit: CDC. |  | This erythrocyte is a mature schizont containing new merozoites, which when released will further develop into male and female gametocytes. Note the variation in size and staining of erythrocytes. Credit: CDC. |
 | Pathognomonic findings seen here include marked endothelial proliferation, and perivascular inflammatory cuffing characteristically seen in the dermis; H&E staining technique; magnification 400X. Credit: CDC. |  | Using this staining technique, fluorescent dye is attached to the known antibodies that correspond to the suspected antigen. These antibodies will in turn attach to the antigen molecules, if present, and fluoresce when viewed with a fluorescent light. Credit: CDC. |
 | Prussian blue staining for iron particles, which reveals little or no stainable iron in the bone marrow reticulum cells and normoblasts, is the definitive test for iron deficiency during Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA). Credit: CDC. |  | Ziehl-Neelsen technique is used for staining acid-fast bacteria using a carbol-fuchsin solution, decolorizing in acid alcohol, and counterstaining with methylene blue. Mycobacteria have waxy coated cell walls which prevents Gram staining. Credit: CDC. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If rabies virus is absent there will be no staining. (references) | |
Occasionally, staining of endothelial cells lining the endocardium is observed. (references) | ||
Histologic staining for Negri bodies is neither as sensitive nor as specific as other tests. (references) | ||
Business | The biggest culprits are the pulp and paper mills, chemical plants, metal dyeing and staining factories, and tanneries. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The slave, when made free, might mix with, without staining the blood of his master. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Staining" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 57.19% of the time. "Staining" is used about 285 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) | 57.19% | 163 | 24,498 |
| Noun (singular) | 36.49% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.16% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.16% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 285 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "staining": Fluorescent Antibody Staining Technique ♦ Glass staining ♦ Negative Staining ♦ oxidized oil staining ♦ Silver Staining ♦ Staining and Labeling ♦ staining etch. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "staining": Gram-staining, non-staining, silver-staining, wood-staining. | |
Containing "staining": purple-staining Cortinarius. | |
| 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 "staining"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | errësirë (background, blackness, darkness, eclipse, fogginess, gloom, mirk, mist, murk, night, nigrescence, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, opaque), çngjyrosje (discoloration, whitening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملوث (contaminated, defiled, dirty, filed, foul, impure, infectious, polluted, polluter, spotted), تلطيخ (discolor, discolour, maculation, smearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оцветяване (coloration, coloring, colouration, colouring), оцветител (color additive, coloring, colour additive, colouring, paint), опетняване (pollution, spotting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 弄脏 (Blotted, Blotting, blurred, Blurring, fouled, Fouling, smudged, Smudging, soiled, soiling, stained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilsmudsning (fouling), bejdsning (dressing), bejdse (pickle, remover, stain, stripping compound, to dress), anloebning (fade, fogging, stain, striking, tarnishing, warming-in, weathering), anfarvning, affarvning (decolorization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vlekken (soil, spot, stain), beitsen (bite), beits (mordant, stain, wood-dye, wood-stain), aan-etsing (fogging, tarnishing, weathering), aanbloeden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | samentuma (fogging, tarnishing, weathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ternissement, tachant, tachage, mordençage, maculation, maculage, dégorgement, coloration, cémentation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | befleckend (specking, sullying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κηλίδωση (blackening, catch-up, fish eye, offset, scab, smearing), βερνίκωμα (grounding), βαφή (colouring, dye, dying, pigment, pigmentation, polishing, stain, tincture), πούσι (mist), χρώση (chroma, coloration, colouring), χρωματισμός (coloration, colour, colouring, painting, SHADE), επίχριση (coating, grounding, skim coating, spreading), θάμπωμα (blinding, bloom, blooming, delustring, dulling, fogging, frosting, tarnishing, weathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "כתמ" (maculation, sullying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szennyezõdés (contamination), bepiszkítás (blotting, blurring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pelumuran (pollution, smearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | perdita del colore, mordenzatura, cementazione (agglutination, bedding into stone of concrete, carburization, carburizing, case hardening, cementation, cementing, fixing), appannatura (bloom, dimming, fogging, stain, sulphate bloom, tarnishing, weathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "色 (dyeing, stain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せ"しょく (dyeing, dyeing and weaving, stain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 얼룩이 짐. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ainingstay nódoa (blur, fleck, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, taint, tarnish), mancheamento, mancha (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brindle, cloud, dapple, defilement, flaw, fleck, guide-mark, marking, reproach, scar, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, taint, tarnish), embaciamento (matting), coloração fugaz, cementação (carburize, cementation), alteração superficial por acção do tempo (fogging, tarnishing, weathering). (various references) întinare. (various references) коррозия (corrosion), протравливание. (various references) slikanje na staklu, bojenje. (various references) mordentado (engrave, etching), mancha (black spot, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, daub, fleck, macula, Mark, patch, slick, smear, smudge, speckle, splash, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, taint), empañado (blurred, cloudy, dim, faint, filmy, misty, steamy, tarnished), cementación (cementation, cementing). (various references) lasur, lasering, dimmighet (fogging, tarnishing, weathering), betsning (stain), beslag (appropriation, confiscation, embargo, escutcheon, fittings, ironwork, mountings, seizure, shoe), anlöpning (annealing, tempering). (various references) renkli (colored, colorful, coloured, colourful, hued, lithochromatic, painted, stirring), renklenme, renklendirme (coloration, coloring, colouring, embellishment, toning), lekelenme (becoming stained, maculation), lekeleme (defilement, stain), kirlenme (becoming dirty, pollution), boyanma (dyeing), boyalı (colored, coloured, dyed, made up, painted, painty, with make-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "staining": abstaining, counterstaining, destaining, distaining, sustaining. (additional references) | |
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"Staining" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sabinian, staini, stairing, stanine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "staining" (pronounced stā"ning) |
| 6 | s t ā" n i ng | abstaining, sustaining. |
| 5 | -t ā" n i ng | ascertaining, attaining, containing, detaining, entertaining, maintaining, obtaining, pertaining, retaining. |
| 4 | -ā" n i ng | campaigning, caning, chaining, complaining, constraining, disdaining, draining, explaining, feigning, gaining, ordaining, overtraining, raining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, remaining, restraining, retraining, straining, training, waning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, assigning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, envisioning, evening, examining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, opening, opining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, rejoining, relearning, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sainting. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antings, saining, staning. | |
-2 letters: anting, gainst, giants, isatin, saning, sating, siting, tining. | |
-3 letters: agist, angst, antis, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, intis, saint, satin, staig, stain, stang, sting, tains, tangs, tings. | |
-4 letters: agin, ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, gain, gait, gast, gats, gins, gist, gits, gnat, inia, inns, inti, nags, nans, nisi, nits, sain, sang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-n-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: antikings, instating, paintings, sinuating, straining, trainings. | |
+2 letters: abstaining, antibusing, astringing, botanising, destaining, discanting, distaining, distancing, incognitas, insolating, installing, instancing, instarring, insulating, inswathing, intrigants, isoantigen, misatoning, resinating, sanguinity, sanitating, sanitising, sanitizing, sonicating, stationing, supinating, sustaining, tarnishing, tetanising, transiting. | |
+3 letters: agglutinins, anatomising, angiotensin, antismoking, assignation, astonishing, brigantines, designating, designation, dismantling, displanting, distraining, fantasising, fantasizing, fascinating, festinating, geminations, gentamicins, indagations, insheathing, insinuating, instigating, instigation, intangibles, intriguants, invaginates, isoantigens, linecasting, magnetising, manifesting, mispainting, misplanting, mistraining, navigations, paginations, painstaking, patronising, reinstating, resignation, restraining, sanctifying, sanctioning, significant, straitening, syndicating, tantalising, transfixing, transpiring, tyrannising, ungainliest, wainscoting. | |
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