Usually means: Substance used to color materials.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word dye:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dye: Merriam-Webster
  2. dye: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dye: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dye: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dye: Vocabulary.com
  6. D'ye, Dye, d'ye, dye, dye: Wordnik
  7. dye: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dye, d'ye, dye: Wiktionary
  9. dye: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dye: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dye: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dye, Dye, dye: Dictionary.com
  13. dye (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dye: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DYE, DyE (musician), DyE, Dye (disambiguation), Dye (surname), Dye: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dye: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dye: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dye: Rhymezone
  19. dye: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dye: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dye: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dye: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dye: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. dye: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dye: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. dye: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dye: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dye: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. dye: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. DYE: Acronym Finder
  4. DYE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. dye: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dye: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dye: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Candle Making Glossary (No longer online)
  4. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See dyeability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
noun:  Any hue or color.
verb:  (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”). [The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.]

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