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Stain

Stain meaning

A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances. | A blemish on one's character or reputation. | A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.

Example sentences (20)

Nuclei will stain dark blue, squamous cells will stain green and keratinised cells will stain pink/ orange.

If absolutely nothing else is budging the stain, “Mix equal parts white vinegar and water, then dab the solution onto the stain with a cloth,” Vishnefske says.

Put a tissue or a clean towel under the stain and ensure that the fabric in the area of the stain is flat and easily accessible.

Despite Stain not joining the new League, his villainy inspires others to seek out the League of Villains with the new founders begrudgingly adopting Stain's ideology of completely dismantling modern society and the heroes that defend it.

Gram-negative bacteria cannot retain the violet stain after the decolorization step; alcohol used in this stage degrades the outer membrane of gram-negative cells making the cell wall more porous and incapable of retaining the crystal violet stain.

Hematoxylin and eosin ( H&E stain ) is the most commonly used light microscopical stain in histology and histopathology.

The Nissl stain shows the cell bodies of neurons; the Golgi stain shows the dendrites and axons of a random subset of neurons.

These alternative products, however, must be applied over a stain if the user wants the wood coloured; clear or blond shellac may be applied over a stain without affecting the color of the finished piece, as a protective topcoat.

To combat this, a special stain technique called a Moeller stain is used.

And since many of these aggressors are prominent public figures, it’s not easy for a woman to go public alone and stain the celebrity’s public image and tell the world what happened to them.

And yet the visual — Turner in a Red Sox uniform, his signature pine tar stain above the No. 2 on his back — remains jarring.

But the stain of a conviction stays on their record forever.

Current secrecy efforts help guard the animals from an extermination ethos shared by many early settlers: a belief in a God-given duty to kill rattlesnakes as a satanic stain on an Edenic landscape.

Each purchase comes with the brand's stain-fighting Oxy Formula, and the cordless device lets you easily navigate wherever you wish.

Even when it’s boiled, it leaves a yellow stain.

Five years later, the moral stain remains.

From a rich stain to a bright flash of colour, giving your fence a fresh coat of paint may be all that’s needed to breathe some life into your outdoor space.

Got the odd stain or mark on your wall that you wish you could just erase?

His football career never got started but it's fair to say he's left an indelible stain with his involvement in the sport.

It goes on like a stain, and makes me feel polished no matter what I’m wearing.