stain vs dip

stain and dip both are nouns.

stain and dip both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stain	Yes	No	Yes	No
dip	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, dip is a hyponym of stain; that is, dip is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than stain:

stain: color with a liquid dye or tint
dip: stain an object by immersing it in a liquid

Other hyponyms of stain include ebonise, ebonize, tattoo, marble, vein.

stain (noun)	dip (noun)
an act that brings discredit to the person who does it	a brief swim in water
a soiled or discolored appearance	a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
a symbol of disgrace or infamy	a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
anything regarded as making something unclean	a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
(microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible	a brief immersion
	tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
	a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
	(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
	a depression in an otherwise level surface

stain (verb)	dip (verb)
produce or leave stains	stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
color with a liquid dye or tint	go down momentarily
color for microscopic study	dip into a liquid while eating
make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically	immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
	plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
	immerse in a disinfectant solution
	scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
	place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
	dip into a liquid
	appear to move downward
	slope downwards
	lower briefly
	switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
	take a small amount from

Difference between stain and dip

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