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Dye vs Dyb - What's the difference?

dye | dyb |

As verbs the difference between dye and dyb

is that dye is to colour with dye while dyb is (intransitive|sometimes|humorous) in the scouting movement, to chant dyb , meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws).

As a noun dye

is a colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied or dye can be .

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 ;

    Anagrams

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    dyb

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dib

    Verb

  • (intransitive, sometimes, humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb , meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws).
  • * 2009 , Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs (page 54)
    • I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.
  • * 2009 , Wendy Holden, Beautiful People
    • 'I'm a scout,' she smiled at him. The boy, in his turn, stared at Sam. He'd heard somewhere that scouting had got more trendy lately, that it was more snowboarding and surfing than dib-dib-dibbing and doing old ladies' gardens.
  • * 2009 , Justin Pollard, The Interesting Bits
    • Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question was in Mafeking and took place during a particularly nasty siege
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