Stein vs Stain - What's the difference?
stein | stain |
A beer mug, usually made of ceramic.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein . Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*1974 , (Thomas Pynchon), (w, Gravity's Rainbow)
*:A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.
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
As nouns the difference between stein and stain
is that stein is a beer mug, usually made of ceramic while stain is a discoloured spot or area.As a proper noun Stein
is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names}} from a {{etyl|sco|en}} diminutive of Stephen.As a verb stain is
to discolour something.stein
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(en noun)References
References
* Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[http://www.studiopotter.org/articles/?art=art0001]Anagrams
* English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----stain
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(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