| 单词 | stain |
| 释义 | stain (once / 269 pages) vn WORD FAMILY stain: destain, stainable, stained, stainer, staining, stainless, stains+/destain: destained, destains/stainable: stainability/stained: unstained/stainer: stainers/staining: stainings/stainless: stainlessly/unstained: unstainedly USAGE EXAMPLESI hardly touched it, believing it to be tainted, stained. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) In the back of the building, under hangers strewn with blouses, pants, wedding dresses and blankets, I talked with Amy and Mark about stains. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) A strange shed in the backyard, stained garnet with pomegranate juice. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically Syn|Hypo|Hyper defile, maculate, sully, tarnish darken tarnish or stain blob, blot, fleck, spot make a spot or mark onto 2v produce or leave stains Red wine stains the table cloth Syn|Hypo|Hyper blob, blot, fleck, spot make a spot or mark onto smut stain with a dirty substance, such as soot alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 3v color with a liquid dye or tint Stain this table a beautiful walnut color people knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages Hypo|Hyper ebonise, ebonize stain black to make it look like ebony dipstain an object by immersing it in a liquid tattoostain (skin) with indelible color marblepaint or stain like marble veinmake a veinlike pattern dye color with dye 4v color for microscopic study Hyper dye color with dye 5n a soiled or discolored appearance the wine left a dark stain Syn|Hypo|Hyper discoloration, discolouration scorch a discoloration caused by heat bloodstaina discoloration caused by blood iron mold, iron moulda spot caused the staining with rust or ink mud staina stain produced by mud oil staina stain produced by oil tarnishdiscoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation appearance, visual aspect outward or visible aspect of a person or thing 6n the state of being covered with unclean things Syn|Hyper dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil dirtiness, uncleanness the state of being unsanitary 7n a symbol of disgrace or infamy Syn|Hypo|Hyper brand, mark, stigma demerit a mark against a person for misconduct or failure; usually given in school or armed forces bar sinister, bend sinistera mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left cloven foot, cloven hoofthe mark of Satan symbol an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance 8n an act that brings discredit to the person who does it Syn|Hyper blot, smear, smirch, spot error, fault, mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention 9n (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible Hypo|Hyper crystal violet, gentian violet a green crystal (violet in water) used as a dye or stain or bactericide or fungicide or anthelmintic or burn treatment methylene blue, methylthionine chloridea dark green dye used as a stain, an antiseptic, a chemical indicator, and an antidote in cyanide poisoning counterstaina stain of contrasting color that is used when the principal stain does not show the structure clearly color, coloring material, colour, colouring material any material used for its color |
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