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stain

/steyn/US // steɪn //UK // (steɪn) //

污渍,污点,染色,沾污

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
    • : a natural spot or patch of color different from that of the basic color, as on the body of an animal.
    • : a cause of reproach; stigma; blemish: a stain on one's reputation.
    • : coloration produced by a dye that penetrates a substance, as wood.
    • : a dye made into a solution for coloring woods, textiles, etc.
    • : a reagent or dye used in treating a specimen for microscopic examination.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to discolor with spots or streaks of foreign matter.
    • : to bring reproach or dishonor upon; blemish.
    • : to sully with guilt or infamy; corrupt.
    • : to color or dye by any of various processes that change or react with the substance chemically.
    • : to color with something that penetrates the substance.
    • : to treat with some reagent or dye in order to color the whole or parts and so give distinctness, contrast of tissues, etc.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to produce a stain.
    • : to become stained; take a stain: This fabric stains easily.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdirty, taint
Forms: stained

Examples

  • I’ve also found that it resists stains and cleans up easily, which is a major plus for road trips and winter camping.

  • Plus, the sudsing left stains on my lenses from the water I couldn’t shake off.

  • Soil stains hint that there may have been such structures inside and that people were living there, she said.

  • You wrote that it “left a stain on their reputations, their department and the country.”

  • They can sop up moisture and help tackle stains on other surfaces, including rugs and carpets.

  • As mentioned, Yahoo has a black stain on its collaboration and severe breach of privacy.

  • We ask our celebrities to pour their hearts out, and then chastise them if they stain our buttoned-up shirts.

  • While that is unlikely to happen, the very fact that it can is a stain on the American judicial system.

  • About “developers in bed with reviewers,” and the stain this leaves on the “integrity of games journalism.”

  • I put my hands behind my head, lay back and looked at a water stain on the ceiling.

  • Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.

  • There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.

  • Louis pressed his father's hand to his lips; that hand which was hardly washed from the stain of Wharton's blood!

  • There was still visible on it the stain where he had wiped his hand, and this stain seemed certainly blood.

  • He did not think of the matter again till just as he was getting into bed, when he noticed a red stain upon his handkerchief.