stain
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cytology
government
heraldry
histology
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English steinen, steynen (“to stain, colour, paint”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse steina (“to stain, colour, paint”), from steinn (“stone, mineral blue, colour, stain”), from Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ (stainaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”). Cognate with Old English stān (“stone”). More at stone.
Replaced native Middle English wem (“spot, blemish, stain”), from Old English wamm (“spot, stain”).
In some senses, influenced by unrelated Middle English disteynen (“to discolor, remove the colour from"; literally, "de-colour”), from Anglo-Norman desteindre (“to remove the colour from, bleach”), from Old French destaindre (“to remove the color from, bleach”), from des- (“dis-, de-, un-”) + teindre (“to dye”), from Latin tingo.
Inflected forms:
form: stains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: staining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
pos: noun
gloss: A blemish on one's character or reputation.
pos: noun
gloss: A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
pos: noun
examples: The wood will darken whether it is stained or not—the main function of a stain is to enhance the wood's natural color and emphasize its grain.
gloss: A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
pos: noun
gloss: To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to stain the hand with dye
armour stained with blood
gloss: To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
pos: verb
examples: of Honour void,
Of Innocence, of Faith, of Puritie,
Our wonted Ornaments now soild and staind
gloss: To coat a surface with a stain
pos: verb
examples: to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.
the stained glass used for church windows
gloss: To become stained; to take a stain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
pos: verb
examples: She stains the ripest virgins of her age.
that did all other beasts in beauty stain
Derived words: antistain
bestain
bloodstain
blue stain
cockstain
coffee stain effect
Colorado brown stain
crapstain
cumstain
cuntstain
dickstain
Feulgen stain
fuckstain
Giemsa stain
Gömöri stain
green stain
green-stain
hit a stain
hypostain
immunostain
inkstain
Kinyoun stain
Leishman stain
milkstain
mudstain
oncostain
pet stain
phosphostain
port-wine stain
pukestain
ring stain
Romanowsky stain
sap stain
shit stain
shitstain
stainful
stainless
stain lifter
stainproof
stain remover
tearstain
unstain
wankstain
Wright-Giemsa stain
Wright-Giemse stain
Wright's stain
Ziehl-Neelsen stain
counterstain
costain
overstain
restain
stainable
stainand
stainer
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