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Definition: Dyestuff |
DyestuffNoun1. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | Name given to materials, solutions, or matters that color textiles. . . -- may be classed according to their origin: animal, vegetable, mineral, synthetic. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DyestuffSynonym: dye (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dyestuff |
| English words defined with "dyestuff": Carthamus tinctorius, Chay root, Chrysaurin, cochineal, Corallin, Crocetin ♦ Emeraldine, Erythrosin ♦ Flavaniline, Frangulin, Fuchsine ♦ Gallein, Garnet brown ♦ Helianthin, Hypericum red ♦ Indigo red, Induline, Iodine green ♦ Luteolin ♦ Magdala, Mandarin yellow, Mauve aniline, methylene blue, Morindin ♦ Naphthalene red, Naphthalene yellow, Naphthazarin, Nigraniline, Nigrosine ♦ Orcein ♦ Paeonine, Purpurin ♦ Red corallin, Roccellin, Rosolic, Rufol ♦ Safranin, Safranine, Santalic ♦ Tartrazine, Thionine, Thionol ♦ Vesuvine, Violaniline ♦ woad ♦ Xanthorhamnin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dyestuff": dye bath, dyebath ♦ possess affinities for dyestuff/to. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany accords to the Reparation Commission an option to require as part of reparation the delivery by Germany of such quantities and kinds of dyestuffs and chemical drugs as the Commission may designate, not exceeding 50 per cent. of the total stock of each and every kind of dyestuff and chemical drug in Germany or under German control at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Reactive dyestuff ranked second. (references) | |
Dyestuff is distinguished by various forms. (references) | ||
Most of the dyestuff factories are full synthesis producers. (references) | ||
Economic History | Kenya | Areas of most interest include production of PVC granules, mixing and granulating fertilizer, and textile dyestuff. (references) |
Indonesia | Promising sub-sectors: petrochemicals, dyestuff, organic and inorganic chemicals, fertilizer chemicals and plastic raw materials. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dyestuff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dyestuff" is used about 12 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dyestuff": direct dyestuff ♦ substantive dyestuff. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dyestuff | 21 |
dye dyestuff exportes | 2 |
china dyestuff in | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dyestuff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngjyrues (dipper, Dyer), lëndë ngjyruese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صبغ (color, colour, dye, imbue, pigment, pigmentation, tincture), صباغ (color, colour, dyer, stain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | багрилно вещество (dye, stain, tincture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "料 (Dye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | materiál k barvení. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | farvestof (dye stuff, pigment, stain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kleurstof (colorimeter, dye stuff, pigment, stainer, toner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | colorant (dye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Farbstoff (coloring, colouring, dye, dye stuff, pigment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρωστική ύλη (pigment), χρωστική ουσία (colouring matter, dye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szinezék, festék (body of paint, color, colour, dye, paint, pigment, stain), festőanyag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sostanza colorante (pigment), materia colorante, colorante (coloring, colouring, dye, stain, tincturing, tinting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 염료 (Dye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yestuffday corante (cochineal, color, coloring, colour, colouring, dye, pigment). (various references) substanţã colorantã (colouring), colorant (colorific, dye, pigment, stain). (various references) красящее вещество (coloring, colouring, dye-stuff, stain). (various references) sredstvo za bojenje (tincture). (various references) tinte (can of paint, dry-cleaner, dye, dyeing, hue, tinge, tint), materia colorante, colorante (Browning, coloring, coloring matter, colouring, colouring matter, dye, tail). (various references) färgämne (dye, pigment, stain). (various references) สารย้อมสี (reddle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dyestuff": dyestuffs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dyestuff" (pronounced dī"stu'f) |
| 4 | -s t u' f | foodstuff, overstuff. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: stuffed. | |
-2 letters: stuffy. | |
-3 letters: duets, duffs, dusty, fetus, feuds, fused, fusty, study, stuff, styed, suety, teffs, tuffs. | |
-4 letters: deft, defy, deys, dues, duet, duff, dust, duty, dyes, effs, efts, feds, fets, feud, feus, fuds, fuse, stey, stud, stye, sued, suet, teds, teff, tuff, tyes, used. | |
-5 letters: dey, due, dye, eds, eff, efs, eft, fed, fet. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-f-s-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: dyestuffs. | |
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