verb
definition
To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
noun
definition
The act by which something is dyed.
Examples of dyeing in a Sentence
A large number of cotton mills furnish the chief source of industry; printing, dyeing and bleaching of cotton and calico, spinning and weaving machine making, iron and steel works, and collieries in the neighbourhood, are also important.
Dyeing is another large trade, as is the preparation of indigo.
The salt is used as a mordant in dyeing and calico-printing.
Stannous chloride is largely used in the laboratory as a reducing agent, in dyeing as a mordant.
If you're dyeing your hair and only going one shade lighter or darker, consider doing it yourself.
She will soon be offering a natural dyeing service.
The other industries are leather work, sugar-refining, goldsmith's work, ivory carving, iron, brass, copper, stone masonry, tanning, weaving, dyeing and carpentry.
This product must not be used for dyeing eyelashes or eyebrows.
It has no affinity for vegetable fibres, and consequently cotton goods must be mordanted before dyeing with it (see Dyeing).
Benzidine finds commercial application since its tetrazo compound couples readily with amino-sulphonic acids, phenol carboxylic acids, and phenol and naphthol-sulphonic acids to produce substantive cotton dyes (see Dyeing).
The chief industry of Cambrai is the weaving of muslin (batiste) and other fine fabrics (see Cambric); wool-spinning and weaving, bleaching and dyeing, are carried on, as well as the manufacture of chicory, oil, soap, sausages and metal boxes.
Dyeing works on old maps are placed in the less salubrious parts of town.
A soft cotton slub yarn to use as it is or for dyeing.
Just outline your designs on the cake and frost them after dyeing icing.
With the rise in men receiving beauty treatments like hair dyeing, waxing and manicures, models place more emphasis on looks and clothing.
Many pregnant women stop dyeing their hair for fear the chemicals will harm the developing fetus.
This is likely due to a combination of dyeing and licensing issues.
By adding UV blocking during the dyeing process, swimsuits made from nylon and Lycra can provide sun protection similar to that found in sun screen.
This is a great way to make sure that a bunch of candles poured separately are going to have the same color and completely takes the guesswork out of dyeing your candles.
Items in the Monogram Canvas collection also boast gleaming golden brass hardware, red edge dyeing, leather handles, and textile lining.
This extremely soft, durable hide is soaked in a spacious drum during the dyeing process, which allows the color to permeate the material completely.
It is treated with a special dyeing process known as drum dyeing, which gives the leather a tonal finish and lends it a vintage-inspired, aged appearance.
Obviously, dyeing Easter eggs is one of the most popular craft projects for children.
To make a bath for dyeing eggs, combine 1/2 cup room temperature water with about 20 drops of food coloring and one tablespoon of vinegar.
White was practical as well because it did not require dyeing, so that one's sleepwear was less expensive.
Further ensuring its authenticity, the stockings were then placed on traditional styled boarders after dyeing.
The industries include cloth-weaving, tanning, dyeing and saw mills.
Its industrial establishments comprise tobacco, yarn, thread, linen and woollen cloth manufactories, bleaching and dyeing works, breweries and oil and flour mills.
Wool and cotton spinning and weaving, dyeing, distilling, paper-making and tanning are carried on here with considerable activity.
The game-pies and other delicacies of Chartres are well known, and the industries also include flour-milling, brewing, distilling, iron-founding, leather manufacture, dyeing, and the manufacture of stained glass, billiard requisites, hosiery, &c.
Other articles of export are chemicals, dyeing and tanning stuffs, tobacco, sugar-beet and kitchen-salt.
The principal industries include tanning, dyeing, tile-making, milling, the production of yeast and there is a large establishment for the manufacture of railway stock.
Different substances were distinguished by the name of "alumen"; but they were all characterized by a certain degree of astringency, and were all employed in dyeing and medicine, the light-coloured alumen being useful in brilliant dyes, the dark-coloured only in dyeing black or very dark colours.
In addition to rice-growing and the felling and extraction of timber, and the fisheries, the chief occupations are rice-husking, silk-weaving and dyeing.
In 1760 the manufacture of silk was introduced, and dyeing with Turkey-red in 1780; but it was not till the end of the century that its industries developed into importance under the influence of Napoleon's continental system, which barred out British competition.
The leaves and husk of the fruit are resinous and astringent, and are sometimes used medicinally as well as for dyeing purposes.
The chief industries are cotton spinning, weaving, bleaching, dyeing, printing, machine building and lithography, and there is an active trade in wine, beer and cheese.
Rhode Island ranked first in 1900 ($13,229,313) and in 1905 ($ 1 443 1, 75 6) among the states of the United States in the value of jewelry, which was fourth in the value of the state's manufactures; second in worsted goods (1900, $33,34 1, 3 2 9; 1905, $44,477,59 6), which were first in value in the state's manufactures; and third in dyeing and finishing textiles (1900, 88,484,878; 1905, $9,981,457), which ranked fifth among the state's manufactures; in the value of cotton goods (second in rank in the state) it fell from the fourth rank in 1900 ($24,056,175) to fifth rank in 1905 ($30,628,843), when the value of Rhode Island's product was less than that of Georgia.
The most important of these trades was the manufacture and dyeing of delicate woollen stuffs and carpets.
No other method permits the decorator to achieve such fidelity and such boldness of draughtsmanship. The difference between the results of the ordinary and the yuzen processes of dyeing is, in fact, the difference between a stencilled sketch and a finished picture.
The industries include the spinning and weaving of cotton and wool, printing, dyeing and tanning, while there is a brisk trade in wine.
The a-naphthylamine sulphonic acids are used for the preparation of azo dyes, these dyes possessing the important property of dyeing unmordanted cotton.
Zeitz has manufactures of cloth, cottons and other textiles, machinery, wax-cloth, musical instruments, vinegar, cigars, &c.; and wood-carving, dyeing and calico-printing are carried on.
Next in importance comes the spinning and weaving of wool, cotton, linen and carpet manufactures, and dyeing.
The industries include dyeing, weaving, tanning and the manufacture of metal-work, wine and flour, but Uskiib is chiefly important as the commercial centre of the whole vilayet of Kossovo (q.v.).
The more important industries comprise cotton manufactures, iron works, boat-building, dyeing and bleaching, tanning, rope-making and salt-making.
The textile industries (the making of carpets and rugs, cotton goods, cotton smallwares, dyeing and finishing textiles, felt goods, felt hats, hosiery and knit goods, shoddy, silk and silk goods, woollen goods, and worsted goods), employed 32.5% of all manufacturing wage earners in 1905, and their product ($271,369,816) was 24.1% of the total, and of this nearly one-half ($129,171,449) was in cotton goods, being 28.9% of the total output of the country, as compared with I I% for South Carolina, the nearest competitor of Massachusetts.
The most important industries of the town are the manufacture of buckskin, the spinning of carded yarn and vicuna-wool, and the processes of dyeing, finishing and wool-spinning connected with these.
Its industries are ironfounding, dyeing, brewing and the manufacture of machinery, soap and matches.
Cotton manufacture, dyeing, printing, bleaching, brewing, type-founding, and the manufacture of tram and railway carriages are among the more important of its industries.