different between dye vs crayon

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from cr?tus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.?n/, /?k?e?.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?e?.?n/, [?k??e?.?n]; also /?k?e?.?n/ (the most common pronunciations, used by 83% of Americans)
• (US) enPR: kr??än
• (US, uncommon, especially Northeastern US, Midwestern US) IPA^(key): /?k?æn/, [?k?e?n]
• (US, rare, especially Philadelphia, New Jersey, sometimes Southern US) IPA^(key): /?k?a?n/, [?k???n], [?k?æ?n]
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

crayon (plural crayons)

1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

   Hyponym: Conté

2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

   Synonym: pencil crayon

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.

3. (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
   • 1885, Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)

     But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.

4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (rail transport) An informal map of a proposed rail route.

Related terms

• cretaceous

Translations

Verb

crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or crayonned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw with a crayon.

Further reading

• crayon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• crayon at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• acyron

French

Etymology

craie (“chalk”) +? -on (diminutive), from Latin cr?ta (“chalk, clay”), from cr?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.j??/

Noun

crayon m (plural crayons)

1. pencil
2. (colloquial) pen
3. (vulgar, slang) cock, dick, prick

Descendants

• ? English: crayon
• ? Esperanto: krajono
• ? Spanish: crayón, clarión

Further reading

• “crayon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).