DYE  染

CAUSE to CHANGE so as to HAVE a DEFINED COLOUR.
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Hypernym
  • CAUSE TOMOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES.
    • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
      • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2.
        • EVENTREALITY that ARISES in TIME....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for dyeing something is rǎn 染 "to dye".

Modern Chinese Criteria
染

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 6.39

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 107A

Words

染  rǎn OC: njomʔ MC: ȵiɛm 20 AttributionsWD

The current general word for dyeing something is rǎn 染 "to dye".

    Syntactic words
  • nabactdyeing
  • nabact"dyeing"
  • vadNdyed
  • vadNfigurativedyed > conteminated; tainted
  • viactdye things
  • vtoNdye
  • vtoNfigurativebe "dyed", i.e. positively influences by
  • vtoNfigurativebe dyed by > be contaminated by > be distorted by
  • vtoNpassivebe dyed; be made dirty
  • vttoN1.+N2dye (something N1) in (something N2)
涅  niè OC: m-liiɡ MC: net 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • vt(oN)dye the contextually determinate object black
  • vtoNdye black

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