Dye vs Crayon - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between dye and crayon

is that dye is a colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied while crayon is a stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

As verbs the difference between dye and crayon

is that dye is to colour with dye while crayon is to draw with a crayon.

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. § 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 ;

Anagrams

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crayon

English

(wikipedia crayon)

Noun

(en noun)

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

* Dryden

Let no day pass over you without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon .

(dated) A crayon drawing.

* 1885 , Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)

But on the wall hung two fine crayons , representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.

(dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

Verb

(en verb)

To draw with a crayon.

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