Dye vs Carbon - What's the difference?
dye | carbon |
A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
to colour with dye
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 46.
(label) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6.
A sheet of carbon paper.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), (The Big Sleep) , Penguin 2011, p. 51:
A carbon copy.
A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
Carbon dioxide, in the context of global warming and climate change.
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As nouns the difference between dye and carbon
is that dye is a colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied while carbon is the chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6.As a verb dye
is to colour with dye.dye
English
(wikipedia dye)Etymology 1
From (etyl) deie, from (etyl) . See (l). colored with dye'. The yarn has been ' dyed .Noun
Synonyms
* colourant * tinctureVerb
Synonyms
* (to color) tint, stain, shade, streakDerived terms
(Terms derived from "dye") * dyeable * dyed-in-the-wool * dye-house * dye-line * dyer * dyery * dyester * dyestuff * dyewood/dye-woodEtymology 2
Noun
(dice)- 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 ;
Anagrams
* ----carbon
English
Noun
(wikipedia carbon)- He stepped back and opened his bag and took out a printed pad of D.O.A. forms and began to write over a carbon .
Martin Lukacs
Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy, passage=If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.}}