paint.
A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
Meaning & usage
A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
fresh coat of paint
A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
The free-throw lane, construed with the.
The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
Paintballs.
I am running low on paint for my marker.
Synonym of face card (king, queen, or jack).
Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
Makeup.
Tattoo work.
Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pinéḱti Proto-Italic *pingō Latin pingō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin pictus Vulgar Latin *pinctus French peint Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Old French peintierder. Middle English peynten English paint From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English tēafor (“paint”), *tīefran (“to paint”); and Old English mētan (“to paint”) and mǣlan (“to paint, mark with colour”).
To apply paint to.
I painted the bathroom walls light blue, and I painted the ceiling white.
To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
To create (an image) with paints.
to paint a portrait or a landscape
To practise the art of painting pictures.
I've been painting since I was a young child.
To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
To depict or portray.
She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.
To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
To detect (something) with radar.
"We'll paint the target for the flyboys," the JTAC said.
To defecate or soil with faeces during anal sex.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pinéḱti Proto-Italic *pingō Latin pingō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin pictus Vulgar Latin *pinctus French peint Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Old French peintierder. Middle English peynten English paint From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English tēafor (“paint”), *tīefran (“to paint”); and Old English mētan (“to paint”) and mǣlan (“to paint, mark with colour”).
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