dye

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   color with dye

   Please dye these shoes

2. 2
   verb

   To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

   You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?

3. 3
   noun

   Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”).

   The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.

4. 4
   noun

   a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair

5. 5
   noun

   A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

6. 6
   noun

   Any hue or color.

7. 7
   name

   A surname.

8. 8
   name

   An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States.

Etymology

From Middle English deye, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“color, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”). Cognates Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.