hair dye
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- noun
- /hɛr daɪ/
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tinte para el cabello
- After a trip to the salon, I bought some hair dye to maintain my new color at home.
- black hair dye
- permanent hair dye
- box of hair dye
However, I'm expecting the company is sending me all the stuff for the sponsored video today, like all the hair dyes.
- However, I'm expecting the company is sending me all the stuff for the sponsored video today, like all the hair dyes.
- The next thing I've got is a hair dye surprise surprise.
- But they do the fake, the, the, the, the smoothing out of the face and the, and the black hair dye for one shot.
Examples
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There was a real run on flame-red hair dye that week.
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I found some hair dye in your bathroom.
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And you thought the red hair dye was...
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Just a little bit of hair dye?
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I promised to bring him some of our black hair dye tomorrow.
Fiction book (1996) -
Found this cheap black hair dye.
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Should I buy more hair dye for you while I'm out?
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I remembered searching his medicine cabinet for hair dye when I was about sixteen.
Fiction book (1994) -
I got some magenta hair dye and a lot of other bizarre things I want to try out for you.
Fiction book (1990) -
I accidentally got red hair dye on a white t-shirt.
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Synonyms
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A paint or dye used to give something a particular shade
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A substance used to change the color of cloth or hair
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A reddish-brown dye from a plant used to color hair and skin
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A product used to color hair
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A thing added to food, fabric, paint, or cosmetics to give color
A product that you put on hair to make it a different shade
A substance used to add color to cloth and hair
A substance that gives color to something like food or cloth
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a substance used for coloring the hair' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'hair' (the body part) with 'dye' (a coloring material). This noun-noun compound follows very common compositional patterns cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Hair dye comes from the simple image of putting a dye, a colored liquid or paste, onto hair. People have used plant dyes like henna for a long time to change or hide grey hair, so today it means 'a substance used for coloring the hair'.