Dye vs Yed - What's the difference?
dye | yed | Anagrams |
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. ยง 46.
(archaic) To speak; sing.
To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.
To contend; wrangle.
To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.
To be associated with a place or locality. (rfex)
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1950
, date = December
, first = Lee
, last = Hoffman
, authorlink =
, title = Chaos
, magazine = Quandry
, url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Quandry/Quandry5-02.html
, volume =
, issue = 5
, page = 3
, passage = Fandom is a wonderful thing. We used to live in Florida ten years ago. Across the street lived a lad two years older than yed' who had the most wonderful collection of comic books...all of a stf nature. At the ripe old age of eight ' yed was swept to Georgia and the lad with the comics was never heard from. Since entering fandom we thought much of him and wondered if he were not a slan. This morning we learned that he is a member of NFFF and TFSC. Naturally we got a letter off to him.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1952
, date = February
, first = Fred J.
, last = Robinson
, authorlink =
, title = Arose By Any Other Name
, magazine = Straight Up
, url = http://www.gostak.co.uk/FR/SU1.htm
, volume = 1
, issue = 1
, page = 1
, passage = All of which sprang (crawled?) from the fertile skull of yed , no doubt it is something in my Radius.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1976
, date = November
, first = Lee
, last = Hoffman
, authorlink =
, title = Editorial
, magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly
, url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy6-04.html
, volume =
, issue = 6
, page = 4
, passage = In preparation for this momentous occasion yed has been browsing past issues of this sterling journal, and it has come to our attention that previous articles by yhos have been devoted largely to bemoaning the multitude of technical problems encountered in production -- the difficulties of duplication, the miseries of mimeography.
}}
Dye is an anagram of yed.
As nouns the difference between dye and yed
is that dye is a colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied or dye can be while yed is (archaic) a saying or yed can be a burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground or yed can be .As verbs the difference between dye and yed
is that dye is to colour with dye while yed is (archaic) to speak; sing or yed can be to burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.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 ;
