stainとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /steɪn/
  • 韻: -eɪn

名詞

stain (複数形 stains)

1. A discoloured spot or area.
2. A blemish on one's character or reputation.
3. A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
   • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 93:

     The wood will darken whether it is stained or not—the main function of a stain is to enhance the wood's natural color and emphasize its grain.

4. A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
5. (heraldry) Any of a number of non-standard tinctures used in modern heraldry.

派生語

• bloodstain
• Giemsa stain
• Leishman stain
• Romanowsky stain
• Wright-Giemse stain
• Wright's stain

動詞

stain (三人称単数 現在形 stains, 現在分詞 staining, 過去形および過去分詞形 stained)

1. (transitive) To discolour.

   to stain the hand with dye

   armour stained with blood

2. To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     of Honour void,
     Of Innocence, of Faith, of Puritie,
     Our wonted Ornaments now soild and staind

3. To coat a surface with a stain

   to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.

   the stained glass used for church windows

4. (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain.
5. (transitive, cytology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
6. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
   • (Can we date this quote by Beaumont かつ Fletcher かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     She stains the ripest virgins of her age.

   • (Can we date this quote by Spenser かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     that did all other beasts in beauty stain

アナグラム

• Astin, Insta, Saint, Santi, Sinta, Tanis, Tians, antis, insta-, saint, sat in, satin, stian, tians, tisan