[
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
- 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.
- This absorbing profile muses on his universal popularity and compulsive desire to draw and paint. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- 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.
- If you think of a piece of hair as a pencil, the medulla is the graphite, the cortex is the wood, and the paint on the outside is the cuticle. The Tenth Circle
- Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
- Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike. The Satanic Verses
- The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
- Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
