dye

英 [da?] 美[da?]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?dyes;第三人稱單數(shù):?dyes;過去式:?dyed;過去分詞:?dyed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?dyeing;

dye 染色

可能來自PIE*dheu, 灰塵，煙霧，詞源同dust,dull. 引申詞義隱藏，遮蔽，偽裝，著色，染色。詞義演變比較color.

dye: dye: [OE] Dye is something of a mystery word. Its original meaning seems to have been simply ‘colour’, its modern connotations of ‘a(chǎn)rtificially changing colour’ a secondary development, but its source remains unknown. A connection has been suggested with Old English dēagol ‘secret, hidden’, but what the implications of that would be for its semantic history are not clear. The convention of spelling the word dye did not become established until as recently as the 19th century; until then die was equally common, and orthographic confusion with die ‘cease to live’ was rife.
dye (n.): Old English deah, deag "a color, hue, tinge," perhaps related to deagol "secret, hidden, dark, obscure," from Proto-Germanic *daugilaz (cognates: Old Saxon dogol "secret," Old High German tougal "dark, hidden, secret").
dye (v.): Old English deagian "to dye," from the source of dye (n.). Spelling distinction between dye and die was not firm till 19c. "Johnson in his Dictionary, spelled them both die, while Addison, his near contemporary, spelled both dye" [Barnhart]. Related: dyed. For dyed in the wool (or grain) see wool (n.).

1. Applying the dye can be messy, particularly on long hair.: 涂抹染發(fā)劑可能會搞得一團糟，特別是長發(fā)。