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染
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Definitions
- 1. to dye
- 2. to catch (a disease)
- 3. to acquire (bad habits etc)
- 4. to contaminate
- 5. to add color washes to a painting
Example Sentences
1 shown你 染 過頭髮嗎？
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 染
lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom)
to infect
untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom); selfless and incorruptible
dye
water pollution
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
water pollution
air pollution
upper respiratory tract infection
trisomy
printing and dyeing
Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria)
tinge
to pollute (often fig.)
to catch an illness
big dyeing vat
to tie-dye
bad habits
chromosome
number of infected persons
environmental pollution
rate of infection (usu. of a disease)
chromosome
viral infection
infective diarrhea
laboratory infection
to dye one's hair
droplet infection (disease transmission from sneezing, coughing etc)
dye
highlight (hair)
to touch up (a piece of writing)
residual contamination
to smudge (become smeared)
to have an affair with sb
decontamination
azoic dyes
infectious; contagious
to bleach and dye
dye factory
see 一塵不染|一尘不染[yī chén bù rǎn]
to exert a gradual influence
discharge
to infect
secondary infection
rendering (computing)
source of an infection
to infect; infection
contamination meter
mixed infection
to pollute; to contaminate (lit. and fig.)
autosomal chromosome
infectiousness (of a disease)
air pollution
lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom); fig. greedy to seize sth
hair dye
to be contaminated
batik (color printing on cloth using wax)
commercial laundry
contamination
radioactive contamination
epidemiology
to catch (a disease)
noise pollution
ploidy (number of homologous chromosomes)
to dip a finger (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie
radioactive contaminant
lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie
to be influenced
pollutant
infectious disease
contamination control
contaminated area
radioactive contamination
polytene chromosome
mother-to-infant transmission
relief shading (in a picture)
infected person
to dye cloth
dyeing and weaving
genetic chromosome abnormality