Stain vs Depaint - What's the difference?
stain | depaint |
A discoloured spot or area.
A blemish on one's character or reputation.
A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
To discolour something
To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
* Milton
To coat a surface with a stain
To treat a microscope specimen with a dye
To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Spenser
(archaic) To depict; to paint; to portray; to delineate.
(archaic) To depict in words; to describe graphically.
(archaic) To colour; to decorate with colours.
(archaic) To stain; to distain.
To remove paint from.
As a noun stain
is .As a verb depaint is
(archaic) to depict; to paint; to portray; to delineate.stain
English
(wikipedia stain)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) * Giemsa stain * Leishman stain * Romanowsky stain * Wright-Giemse stain * Wright's stainVerb
(en verb)- to stain the hand with dye
- armour stained with blood
- Of honour void, / Of innocence, of faith, of purity, / Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained .
- to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.
- the stained glass used for church windows
- She stains the ripest virgins of her age.
- that did all other beasts in beauty stain
Anagrams
* ----depaint
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Verb
- aircraft depainting technology