单词 | tie-dyeing |
释义 | tie-dyeing in British Englishnoun a method of dyeing textiles to produce patterns by tying sections of the cloth together so that they will not absorb the dye Also called: tie-and-dyetie-dyeing in American English (ˈtaiˌdaiɪŋ) noun a process of hand-dyeing fabric, in which sections of the fabric are tightly bound, as with thread, to resist the dye solution, thereby producing a variegated pattern Also called: tie-and-dye, tie-dye Word origin [1900–05; tie-dye + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: clone, decompression, hookup, hormone, throwaway-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”Examples of 'tie-dyeing' in a sentence |
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