Crossword clues for staining
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stain \Stain\ (st[=a]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stained (st[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Staining.] [Abbrev. fr. distain.]
To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processes affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.
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To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
Of honor void, Of innocence, of faith, of purity, Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.
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To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
She stains the ripest virgins of her age.
--Beau. & Fl.That did all other beasts in beauty stain.
--Spenser.Stained glass, glass colored or stained by certain metallic pigments fused into its substance, -- often used for making ornamental windows.
Syn: To paint; dye; blot; soil; sully; discolor; disgrace; taint.
Usage: Paint, Stain, Dye. These denote three different processes; the first mechanical, the other two, chiefly chemical. To paint a thing is to spread a coat of coloring matter over it; to stain or dye a thing is to impart color to its substance. To stain is said chiefly of solids, as wood, glass, paper; to dye, of fibrous substances, textile fabrics, etc.; the one, commonly, a simple process, as applying a wash; the other more complex, as fixing colors by mordants.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of stain English)
WordNet
n. (histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study
the act of spotting or staining something [syn: spotting, maculation]
Wikipedia
Staining is an auxiliary technique used in microscopy to enhance contrast in the microscopic image. Stains and dyes are frequently used in biology and medicine to highlight structures in biological tissues for viewing, often with the aid of different microscopes. Stains may be used to define and examine bulk tissues (highlighting, for example, muscle fibers or connective tissue), cell populations (classifying different blood cells, for instance), or organelles within individual cells.
In biochemistry it involves adding a class-specific ( DNA, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates) dye to a substrate to qualify or quantify the presence of a specific compound. Staining and fluorescent tagging can serve similar purposes. Biological staining is also used to mark cells in flow cytometry, and to flag proteins or nucleic acids in gel electrophoresis.
Simple staining is staining with only one stain/dye. There are various kinds of multiple staining, many of which are examples of counterstaining, differential staining, or both, including double staining and triple staining.
Staining is not limited to biological materials, it can also be used to study the morphology of other materials for example the lamellar structures of semi-crystalline polymers or the domain structures of block copolymers.
Staining is a local discoloration.
Staining may refer to one of the following.
- Staining, dyeing of organic matter in the laboratory
- Wood staining, a wood treatment
- Staining, Lancashire, a village in Lancashire
- All Hallows Staining a former church in the City of London
See also: Stain (disambiguation)
Usage examples of "staining".
Improvements in staining and microscopy revealed that the rods came in mixed doubles.
She and I worked side by side replastering the ceiling and staining the walls and putting a parquet floor in and building an altar and getting some stained glass to replace the old dirty windows and building a number of pews so that the room could actually hold about thirty people.
A thin drool of coloured spittle from the berries streams out after it, spattering and staining the mess.
Darvk stood up, Tenia cradled to his chest, her blood staining his vest.
Inside, the finish was even brighter, smoother, though at the bottom he saw evidence of what looked to be a very old staining, like undrunk wine left to dry in a glass.
The sublight jaunt, peaking at around half the speed of light, lasted only a fraction of a second, but Pirius glimpsed blueshift staining the crowded stars above him.
She drove blindly, on autopilot, mascara-tinted tears staining the cream silk suit Eberhard had chosen for her to wear that evening.
She put it down on top of a volume whose crimson binding had washed out to pressed rose, staining the pages, and looked finally back at Chion.
Winter damps down Discontent, which smolders by the Hearths of Cottages and Pothouses, but once let out with the Spring Airing, it will flee abroad like the foul Odors from a sealed House, staining the Air.
Many were unfinished, with splayed iron supports fanning out from the ghosts of roofs, rusting, bleeding with the rain and the damp, staining the skin of the buildings.
A typical egocentric pathological legacy is a van Gieson staining of a Schwann cell nuclei from a Schwannoma, and Scarpetta fails to understand why German naturalist Theodor Schwann would have wanted a tumor named after him.
Blood spills over shoulder and arm, staining the cloth of his tunic, staining the grass and the soil.
To get a sense of scale, the black staining cell bodies of chick-brain neurons are on average about 5-10 u.
Korbal Broachhis armour in shreds, rank tendrils of smoke wreathed around himthen Bauchelain, his pale face bruised along one side of his long jaw, blood crusting his moustache and staining his silver beard.
Fearing the formation of an abscess somewhere inside the missile track, Ford took a sample of the exudate drained from the entry wound and was able to identify a gram-positive coccus, which the lab later narrowed down to Staphylococcus aureus through fluorescent antibody staining and a blood plasma coagulation test.