Definitions

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  • adjective stained in advance

Etymologies

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From pre- +‎ stained

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Examples

  • They sat down together on the overstuffed couch that in a prestained age had matched my overstuffed chair.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • They sat down together on the overstuffed couch that in a prestained age had matched my overstuffed chair.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • They sat down together on the overstuffed couch that in a prestained age had matched my overstuffed chair.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • MANFREDINI: But this is the full piece that comes prestained so that you're speeding up the building process.

    CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2002 2002

  • It's a prestained system that they bring -- deliver to the job site done already in the color that you want.

    CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2002 2002

  • Marker: prestained protein marker; A: normal cultured astrocytes; A-M: normal astrocytes co-cultured with MSCs; AO: OGD astrocytes; AO-M: OGD astrocytes co-cultured with MSCs.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hongqi Xin et al. 2010

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