dye
noun/daɪ/
/daɪ/
[countable, uncountable]- a substance that is used to change the colour of things such as cloth or hair
- black dye
- hair dye
- natural/chemical/vegetable dyes
- The researchers injected a fluorescent dye into an area of a rat’s brain.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fabric
- food
- hair
- …
- use
- inject
- in (a/the) dye
Word OriginOld English dēag (noun), dēagian (verb). The noun is not recorded from Old English to the late 16th cent., when it was re-formed from the verb.Definitions on the go
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