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Staining   /stˈeɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Staining

noun
1.
(histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study.
2.
The act of spotting or staining something.  Synonyms: maculation, spotting.


Stain

verb
(past & past part. stained; pres. part. staining)
1.
Color with a liquid dye or tint.  "People knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages"
2.
Produce or leave stains.
3.
Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically.  Synonyms: defile, maculate, sully, tarnish.  "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
4.
Color for microscopic study.



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"Staining" Quotes from Famous Books



... deeply and easily where he paused in the middle of the narrow winding road. He glanced at his watch. Nine a.m. He was vaguely perplexed because he did not react more emotionally to the blood staining his slender hands. ...
— Strange Alliance • Bryce Walton
... province would give weight and stability to the enterprise. Gordianus, their proconsul, and the object of their choice, refused, with unfeigned reluctance, the dangerous honor, and begged with tears, that they would suffer him to terminate in peace a long and innocent life, without staining his feeble age with civil blood. Their menaces compelled him to accept the Imperial purple, his only refuge, indeed, against the jealous cruelty of Maximin; since, according to the reasoning of tyrants, those who have been esteemed worthy of the ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... great happiness to do the best work of his life. He pulled his microscope over in front of him and looked over it after the manner of one dreaming. How many days he had come to it eager to note the slightest significance in its variations of colour, for the staining of the slides made colour count in his work almost as it did in Ernestine's, only to be met with the non-essential, more of the husk and no sight of the kernel. He smiled a little to think what a bulky ...
— The Glory Of The Conquered • Susan Glaspell
... himself from thence to free, The paynim by this game is angered sore, Who little thins the gathering rabblery, Staining the ground with thousands slain or more; And all the while, in his extremity, Finds that his breath comes thicker than before; And sees he cannot pierce the hostile round, Unless he thence escape while ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... followed, she must have heard me, but she did not look back. The doors along the passage were curtained. Through the gaps of the curtain I could see they were empty of life. The curtains were rotted as if long unused, dirty and blotched with mould staining the leather. ...
— Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell


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