different between dye vs chalk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: die, Di, Dai

Etymology 1

From Middle English deie, from Old English d?ah, d?ag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-Germanic *daug? (“colour, shade”), from *daugan?, *dug- (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”).

The verb is from Middle English deien, from Old English d?agian, from the noun.

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) die

Noun

dye (countable and uncountable, plural dyes)

1. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
2. Any hue, color, or blee.

Synonyms

• colourant
• tincture

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ink

Verb

dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing, simple past and past participle dyed)

1. (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

Synonyms

• (to color): tint, stain, shade, streak

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

dye (plural dyce)

1. Alternative spelling of die (“singular of dice”)
   • 1748. David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 46:

     If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;

Translations

Anagrams

• Dey, dey, ye'd, yed

Afrikaans

Noun

dye

1. plural of dy

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dieu (“god”).

Noun

dye

1. god

English

Alternative forms

• chaulk (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English chalk, chalke, from Old English cealc, borrowed from Latin calx (“limestone”), again borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khálix, “pebble”). Doublet of calx and cauk.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t????k/
• (General American) enPR: chôk, IPA^(key): /t???k/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): /t???k/
  • Homophone: chock
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

chalk (countable and uncountable, plural chalks)

1. (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone.

2. (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.

3. Tailor's chalk.
4. (uncountable, climbing) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk.

5. (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
6. (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
7. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ??? (c?k)
• ? Japanese: ??? (chako), ???? (ch?ku)
• ? Nepali: ?? (cak)
• ? Swahili: chaki
• ? Swazi: íshóki
• ? Thai: ????? (ch??k)
• ? Tsonga: choko
• ? Tulu: ???? (c?k)

Translations

Verb

chalk (third-person singular simple present chalks, present participle chalking, simple past and past participle chalked)

1. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.

2. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
3. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
4. (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
5. To manure (land) with chalk.
6. To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
   • Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.

Derived terms

Related terms

• calcium
• calx
• chalkboard

See also

• chalk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chalk (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chalk (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Alternative forms

• chalke, schalk, calke, schalke

Etymology

From Old English cealc, borrowed from Latin calx, in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khálix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?alk/
• (rare) IPA^(key): /kalk/
• Rhymes: -alk

Noun

chalk (uncountable)

1. chalk

Descendants

• English: chalk (see there for further descendants); cauk, cawk
• Scots: cauk, cawk

References

• “chalk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-14.