(a.) Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
(n.) An ingrain fabric, as a carpet.
(v. t.) To dye with or in grain or kermes.
(v. t.) To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.
(v. t.) To work into the natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inquiry’s chairman, Sir Thayne Forbes, a former high court judge, concluded in 2014 that the most serious claims were “deliberate lies, reckless speculation and ingrained hostility”.
(2) There is a reason for this and it is not merely the deeply ingrained tribal loyalty of a boy who still remembers the thrill of his first visit to the Stretford End or the tingle of excitement when offered a job as a paperboy by a former United star (in those days retired footballers had to work for a living).
(3) "The culture of demeaning women in pop music is so ingrained as to become routine, from the way we are dealt with by management and labels, to the way we are presented to the public."
(4) In a confidential report released under the Freedom of Information Act, the MoD has admitted that safety failings at the UK's main nuclear submarine base at Faslane, near Glasgow, are a "recurring theme" and ingrained in the base's culture.
(5) Hypocrisy and double standards in respect to gender are ingrained in cycling and many other sports but this is hidden in reports of events.
(6) Television and the internet had magnified the riots, brought them into our homes and pockets, repeated their shocking extremes until they were ingrained, making the perpetrators at once faceless and global.
(7) Malik said appeals to religion or caste were too deeply ingrained in Indian politics to be eradicated by a court order “Identity is intrinsic to human society and there is political mobilisation all over the world that takes place along these lines,” he said.
(8) Last week a damning report by MPs said senior police officers have allowed the misrecording of crime figures to become "ingrained" across England and Wales, with crimes as serious as rape not being properly reported.
(9) The al-Sweady inquiry – named after an Iraqi teenager killed in the battle – found that the murder allegations were “wholly without foundation and entirely the product of deliberate lies, reckless speculation and ingrained hostility”.
(10) He denied that: there is a fear factor ingrained into the whole culture of Sports Direct; that some shop workers are told they can be dismissed for three misdemeanours; that workers sometimes feel under pressure to mislead customers and the commission scheme only incentivises them to sell Sports Direct brands; that finish times on rotas are not adhered to; that there is inadequate training and that the company has been paying shop workers less than the legal minimum.
(11) Michael Heseltine once said that "there is in this country a deeply ingrained desire for home ownership", but in 1900 90% of homes, at almost every level of price, were rented.
(12) It is just a part of who we are, ingrained into us from birth.
(13) This fear factor is ingrained into the whole culture of Sports Direct.
(14) Nonetheless, the feds’ approach is a sea-change from the early 1990s, when a macho paramilitary culture and aggressive rules of engagement approved at the highest levels were ingrained in the FBI and contributed to disasters the bureau is now anxious never to repeat.
(15) The concept of the social enterprise probably has fewer barriers to acceptance among Russia's first truly post-Soviet generation than it did among their US peers, given how deeply the capitalism of Adam Smith (or Gordon Gekko) is ingrained in US culture.
(16) Suggestions for a Traditional Birth Attendant programme are presented with the aim of improving village deliveries in ways that are consistent with deeply ingrained aspects of culture.
(17) Though prohibited by law since 1961, dowry is ingrained in Indian culture, she said.
(18) I thought: ‘This can’t be as bad as mothers make out.’ But at the end of the day, I thought: ‘I really don’t like this’ There are also ingrained cultural issues to fight against.
(19) These are dates that are ingrained in our minds,” said Shah.
(20) Yet, son preference is deeply ingrained in the Chinese culture and may discourage women from limiting their family size if they feel they have too few sons.
Kermes
Definition:
(n.) The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine.
(n.) A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.