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What is the noun for stain?

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stain
  1. A discoloured spot or area.
  2. A blemish on one's character or reputation.
  3. A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
  4. A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
  5. (heraldry) Any of a number of non-standard tinctures used in modern heraldry.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “If the shirt has been cycled through a dryer, the stain may be more difficult to remove.”
      “It is a story of savage in-fighting which has left a bloody stain on the club's reputation.”
      “The owners painted the ceiling off-white and applied a stain to the rustic beams to make them look like driftwood.”
stainer
  1. Something that stains.
  2. One who stains or tarnishes.
  3. A workman who applies a stain to wood, etc.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The life cycles of the pale cotton stainer and the cotton harlequin bug have not been fully studied.”
      “Empty weavers' nests dangled from lifeless tree branches and flea beetles and cotton stainer bugs provided the only movement in that empty place.”
      “Such pests that were noted included termites, stainer bug, stalk borer and monkeys.”
stainability
  1. The state or condition of being stainable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The tapetum degenerates earlier than usual, resulting in high pollen sterility, and anther indehiscence occurs when pollen stainability falls below 20 percent.”
      “The percentage of high DNA stainability cells were also recorded in each sample manually from the graph plot.”
      “Evaluation of stainability of the coatings containing the additive revealed that a spray paint would be repelled from the surface showing a proper antigraffiti behavior.”
stainless
  1. Short for stainless steel.
stainings
  1. plural of staining, gerund of stain.
stainabilities
  1. plural of stainability
stainlesses
  1. plural of stainless
stainers
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