dye
Word family adjectivedyabledyeddyelinenoundyeingdyerdyesterdyestuffdyewoodverbdye
dye1 /daɪ/ ●●○ noun → die2. a dye job informalDC someone who has had a dye job has used a substance to change the colour of their hair 染发a dye job• Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature. dye• Carbonless paper coated with chemicals and dye which will produce copies without carbon paper.• Oil red O and fat red 7B are dyes that are commonly used to stain lipoproteins following electrophoresis. 184.• You can even colour them by mixing a food dye into the half cup of water.• Pots of dye always seemed to be boiling in the back room.• Dozens of eggs were boiled in bright red dye. dye2 ●●○ verb [transitiveT] CCDCto give something a different colour using a dye 〔用染料〕染,给…染色dye something black/blue/blonde etc Priscilla’s hair was dyed jet black. 普里希拉的头发染成了乌黑色。
—dyed adjectiveadj
Origin dye1 Old English deah, deag