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Engrain
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| ingrain or engrain | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to impress deeply on the mind or nature; instil |
| 2. | archaic to dye into the fibre of (a fabric) |
| —adj | |
| 3. | variants of ingrained |
| 4. | (of woven or knitted articles, esp rugs and carpets) made of dyed yarn or of fibre that is dyed before being spun into yarn |
| —n | |
| 5. | a. a carpet made from ingrained yarn |
| b. such yarn | |
| [C18: from the phrase dyed in grain dyed with kermes through the fibre] | |
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| —vb | |
| —adj | |
| —n | |
| [C18: from the phrase dyed in grain dyed with kermes through the fibre] | |
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Word Origin & History
engrain
M.E., originally "dyed in grain," from Fr. graine "seed of a plant," also "cochineal" (the source of the dye was thought to be berries), thus "fast-dyed." Later associated with grain in the sense of "the fiber of a thing." Related: Engrained.
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