[
US
/ˈpeɪnt/
]
[ UK /pˈeɪnt/ ]
[ UK /pˈeɪnt/ ]
VERB
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make a painting
he painted all day in the garden
He painted a painting of the garden - apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil
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apply paint to; coat with paint
We painted the rooms yellow -
make a painting of
He painted his mistress many times
NOUN
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a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably -
(basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
he dominates play in the paint
he hit a jump shot from the top of the key - makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
How To Use paint In A Sentence
- He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
- Mix up pots of poster paint, and give your children a pot of paint in each colour, a couple of brushes and a glass of water.
- Apart from paintings he produced a good deal of graphic work, including numerous book illustrations in lithograph and woodcut.
- A couple of coats of new antifouling paint may cost the equivalent of a couple tanks of gas, but you will keep saving money on fuel all season long.
- This absorbing profile muses on his universal popularity and compulsive desire to draw and paint. Times, Sunday Times
- They use cheap materials and actually destroy a lot of decent furniture and fittings in the process - if something is considered unfashionable it gets taken out or painted over.
- Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
- The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
- Sometimes I go through spells when I just draw, when I just write, when I just paint.
- We also went to the DIY store for garden stuff and for a big bucket of white emulsion paint to brighten up the walls in Graham's workshop.