different between stain vs crayon

English

Etymology

From Middle English steinen, steynen (“to stain, colour, paint”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse steina (“to stain, colour, paint”), from steinn (“stone, mineral blue, colour, stain”), from Proto-Norse ??????? (stainaz), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh?- (“to stiffen”). Cognate with Old English st?n (“stone”). More at stone.

Replaced native Middle English wem (“spot, blemish, stain”) from Old English wem (“spot, stain”).

In some senses, influenced by unrelated Middle English disteynen (“to discolor, remove the colour from"; literally, "de-colour”), from Anglo-Norman desteindre (“to remove the colour from, bleach”), from Old French destaindre (“to remove the color from, bleach”), from des- (“dis-, de-, un-”) + teindre (“to dye”), from Latin tingo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

stain (plural 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.
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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

stain (third-person singular simple present stains, present participle staining, simple past and past participle 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
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.

   • She stains the ripest virgins of her age.

   • c. 1591-1592, Edmund Spenser, Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier

     that did all other beasts in beauty stain

Translations

Anagrams

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

Gothic

Romanization

stain

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Gutnish

Etymology

From Old Norse steinn (“stone”), from Proto-Norse ??????? (stainaz), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”). Cognate with English stone, German Stein, Dutch steen, Danish sten, Norwegian Bokmål sten, Norwegian Nynorsk stein, Swedish sten, Faroese steinur, West Frisian stien, Low German Steen. Ultimately from Pre-Germanic *stoyh?nos, o-grade from Proto-Indo-European *steyh?- (“to stiffen”).

Noun

stain m

1. stone, rock, as material or individual piece of rock or pebble

Middle English

Adjective

stain

1. Alternative form of stonen

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse steinn (“stone”), from Proto-Norse ??????? (stainaz), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”). Cognate with English stone, German Stein, Dutch steen, Danish sten, Norwegian Bokmål sten, Norwegian Nynorsk stein, Swedish sten, Faroese steinur, West Frisian stien, Low German Steen. Ultimately from Pre-Germanic *stoyh?nos, o-grade from Proto-Indo-European *steyh?- (“to stiffen”).

Noun

stain m

1. stone, rock, as material or individual piece of rock or pebble

Alternative forms

• stäin
• stejn

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).