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Dye vs Rye - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between dye and rye

is that dye is a colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied while rye is a grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.

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

  • 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

    * ----

    rye

    English

    (wikipedia rye)

    Noun

  • A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
  • The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
  • Rye bread.
  • (US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 159:
    • I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
  • Caraway
  • Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
  • A disease of hawks.
    • (Ainsworth)

    Derived terms

    * ryegrass

    Anagrams

    * English three-letter words