dye vs bluing

dye and bluing both are nouns.

dye is a verb but bluing is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dye	Yes	No	Yes	No
bluing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bluing is a hyponym of dye; that is, bluing is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dye:

dye: a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
bluing: used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

Other hyponyms of dye include acid dye, alizarin yellow, anil, indigo, indigotin, aniline dye, azo dye, basic color, basic colour, basic dye, blue, blueing, bromophenol blue, bromphenol blue, tetrabromo-phenolsulfonephthalein, bromothymol blue, bromthymol blue, cochineal, cyanine dye, direct dye, substantive dye, fluorescein, fluoresceine, fluorescent dye, resorcinolphthalein, fluorochrome, hair coloring, hair dye, tint, Kendal, Kendal green, lac dye, lead acetate, sugar of lead, archil, cudbear, orchil, quercitron, radiopaque dye, saffranine, safranin, safranine, Tyrian purple, vat color, vat dye, woad.

dye (noun)	bluing (noun)
a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair	a process that makes something blue (or bluish)
	used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

dye (verb)	bluing (verb)
color with dye
color for microscopic study

Difference between dye and bluing

Words related to "bluing"

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.