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paint

Pronunciation: /peɪnt/

The English word “paint” has 20 meanings listed here.

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.

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”).

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