dyeing
染色
解説 Definition
dyeing は dye（染める）の現在分詞・動名詞です。布や髪、糸などに色をつける作業や工程を表し、日本語では「染色」と訳されることが多いです。
The present participle and gerund of dye, referring to the act or process of giving cloth, hair, yarn, or another material a color by applying or soaking it in a coloring substance.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 dye「染める」の現在分詞・動名詞です。通常の語尾変化なら e を落としそうですが、die の dying「死につつある」と区別するため e を残して dyeing と綴ります。dyeing cloth、dyeing wool、methods of dyeing silk のように、染料を素材へしみ込ませて色を付ける工程と結び付けて覚えましょう。
Dyeing comes from dye, “to give something color with a coloring substance.” Unlike many verbs ending in silent e, dye keeps the e before -ing. This spelling helps distinguish dyeing from dying, the -ing form of die. Picture a workshop where someone is dyeing cloth, wool, or silk by letting color penetrate the material. The word may function in a continuous verb phrase, as in “She is dyeing wool,” or as a gerund naming the process, as in “Dyeing silk requires care.” Keep the core idea of adding lasting color.
例文
Dyeing the cloth took three hours.
その布を染めるのに3時間かかりました。
She is dyeing wool with natural colors.
彼女は天然の色で羊毛を染めています。
The workshop teaches traditional methods of dyeing silk.
その工房では絹を染める伝統的な方法を教えています。
dyeing の類義語・関連語
dyeing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
dyeing は dye「染める」の動名詞で、古英語 deag / deah「色合い、染料」、動詞 deagian「染める」にさかのぼる。接頭辞よりも語そのものが古く、「色をしみ込ませる」感覚が中心なので、布を染める意味がそのまま残った。関連語は dyed, dyer。
Dyeing is formed from dye and the present-participle or gerund ending -ing. Dye is an old Germanic word, traced to Old English forms such as deag or deah for a color or dye and deagian for the act of coloring. Its long-established sense concerns applying color to a material. The final e is retained in dyeing, an exceptional but useful spelling that visually distinguishes it from dying, the corresponding form of the unrelated verb die.
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