English noun: dye |
1. | dye (substance) a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair |
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| Synonyms | dyestuff |
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| Broader (hypernym) | color, coloring material, colour, colouring material |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acid dye, alizarin yellow, anil, aniline dye, archil, azo dye, basic color, basic colour, basic dye, blue, blueing, bluing, bromophenol blue, bromothymol blue, bromphenol blue, bromthymol blue, cochineal, cudbear, cyanine dye, direct dye, fluorescein, fluoresceine, fluorescent dye, fluorochrome, hair coloring, hair dye, indigo, indigotin, Kendal, Kendal green, lac dye, lead acetate, orchil, quercitron, radiopaque dye, resorcinolphthalein, saffranine, safranin, safranine, substantive dye, sugar of lead, tetrabromo-phenolsulfonephthalein, Tyrian purple, vat color, vat dye, woad |
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| Part holonym | chromophore |
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