die vs dye
Definitions
verb
- languish as with love or desire
- cut or shape with a die
- be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
noun
- a device used for shaping metal
- a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
Examples
My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
I have to find grass and bring it up to them, otherwise they'll die.
By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol.
Definitions
verb
- color with dye
noun
- a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
Examples
The dyes are in the form of a suspension of particles which, for reasons not fully understood, are adsorbed onto the surface of ligno-cellulosic fibres such as sisal, abaca and fique.
Owing to different structures of cotton fiber and chitin fiber, they have differentadsorbability to reactive dyestuffs.
Furthermore, the xerogels prepared from the organogels showed a striking property of adsorbing dyes such as crystal violet from water.
