dye vs fluoresceine

fluoresceine vs dye

dye and fluoresceine both are nouns.

dye is a verb but fluoresceine is not a verb.

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

As nouns, fluoresceine is a hyponym of dye; that is, fluoresceine 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
fluoresceine: a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed)

Other hyponyms of dye include acid dye, alizarin yellow, anil, indigo, indigotin, aniline dye, azo dye, basic color, basic colour, basic dye, blue, blueing, bluing, bromophenol blue, bromphenol blue, tetrabromo-phenolsulfonephthalein, bromothymol blue, bromthymol blue, cochineal, cyanine dye, direct dye, substantive dye, fluorescein, 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)	fluoresceine (noun)
a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair	a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed)

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

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