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Coloring vs Dye - What's the difference?

coloring | dye |

As verbs the difference between coloring and dye

is that coloring is while dye is to colour with dye.

As nouns the difference between coloring and dye

is that coloring is an act or process which applies color while dye is a colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied or dye can be .

coloring

English

Alternative forms

* (mainly British: ) colouring

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or process which applies color.
  • The appearance as to color.
  • A disguise or discoloration.

    • Related terms

    * colorable * coloration * colored * color guard * colorless * color line

    dye

    English

    (wikipedia dye)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) deie, from (etyl) . See (l). colored with dye'. The yarn has been ' dyed .

    Noun

  • A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
    • Synonyms
    * colourant * tincture

    Verb

  • to colour with dye
    • Synonyms
    * (to color) tint, stain, shade, streak
    Derived terms
    (Terms derived from "dye") * dyeable * dyed-in-the-wool * dye-house * dye-line * dyer * dyery * dyester * dyestuff * dyewood/dye-wood

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (dice)
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 46.
    • If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter ;

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