English Explanatory Dictionary

paint

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
  3. The free-throw lane, construed with the.
  4. Paintballs.
  5. Synonym of face card (king, queen, or jack).
  6. Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
  7. Makeup.
  8. Tattoo work.
  9. Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
  10. The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
verb
  1. To apply paint to.
  2. To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
  3. To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
  4. To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
  5. To create (an image) with paints.
  6. To practise the art of painting pictures.
  7. To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
  8. To depict or portray.
  9. To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
  10. To detect (something) with radar.
  11. To defecate or soil with faeces during anal sex.
noun
  1. A paint horse.
name
  1. A surname

Pronunciation

/peɪnt/ en-us-paint.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-paint.wav /pɛjɳʈ/ /peɳʈ/

Word forms

paint paints painting painted

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

face card ink

Related words

picture

Derived words

bepaint bodypaint body paint corpsepaint depaint digipaint electropaint emulsion paint eyepaint face paint facepaint finger paint finger-paint fingerpaint fresh as paint go hard in the paint greasepaint impaint Indian paint rock inpaint know someone from a can of paint latex paint lead paint stare lick of paint like an explosion in a paint factory mispaint nonpaint nose paint oil paint Paint paint and sip paintathon paint-billed crake paintbox paint bridge paintbrush paint bucket paint by numbers paint-by-numbers Paint Creek paint down paintery paint gun paint horse paint job paintless paintlike paintmaker paintmaking paint mask paintpot paint-pot paint pot paintproof paint rock paintroot paint-root paint shaker paint shop paintstick

Translations

Alabama: istaposohka Alabama: iisastapasoilka Albanian: bojë Southern Altai: бойу Arabic: دِهَان Armenian: ներկ Asturian: pintura Avar: бил Azerbaijani: boya Azerbaijani: rəng Bashkir: буяу Basque: margo Belarusian: фа́рба Belarusian: кра́ска Belarusian: хва́рба Bengali: রং Bulgarian: боя́ Burmese: ဆေး Catalan: pintura Chechen: басар Chinese Cantonese: 油漆 Chinese Cantonese: 油 Chinese Mandarin: 油漆 Chinese Mandarin: 塗料 /涂料 Czech: barva Danish: maling Danish: farve Dutch: verf Dutch: tjet Esperanto: farbo Estonian: värv Finnish: maali French: peinture Galician: pintura Georgian: საღებავი German: Farbe German: Lack Greek: βαφή Greek: χρώμα Haitian Creole: penti Hebrew: צֶבַע Hindi: रंग Hindi: पेंट Hungarian: festék Iban: chat Icelandic: málning Ido: farbo Indonesian: cat Interlingua: tinta Italian: vernice Italian: colore Italian: pittura Japanese: ペンキ Japanese: 塗料 Japanese: ペイント
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