paint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪnt/
note: Indic
ipa: /pɛjɳʈ/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /peɳʈ/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: paints
form: painting
form: painted
form: 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”) and *tīefran (“to paint”).
Senses: examples: text: I painted blue all of the bathroom walls, the ceiling, and a the corridor up to the hall.
text: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter I, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To apply paint to.
glosses: To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
examples: text: not painted with the crimson spots of blood
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: Cuckoo buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
examples: text: to paint a portrait or a landscape
glosses: To create (an image) with paints.
examples: text: I've been painting since I was a young child.
glosses: To practise the art of painting pictures.
examples: text: Sent to a minimized window when the icon's background must be filled before it is painted.
ref: 1991, Ernest R Tello, Object-oriented Programming for Windows:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
examples: text: She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.
text: Disloyal? / The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: VVhether the Charmer ſinner it, or ſaint it, / VVhen Folly grovvs romantic, vve muſt paint it.
ref: 1735, Alexander Pope, “Epistle 2”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 62, lines 15–16:
text: During defense openings, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer painted him as a “nerd” who tried to do the right thing but was overwhelmed with a fast-growing company.
ref: 2023 October 5, Victoria Bekiempis, “FTX co-founder testifies he committed crimes with Sam Bankman-Fried”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To depict or portray.
examples: text: Let her paint an inch thick.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
examples: text: "We'll paint the target for the flyboys," the JTAC said.
text: The Albuquerque radar “painted” just one object whenever the light was on, none when it was off.
ref: 2023, J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: Evidence Behind Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, and the Search for Answers, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 73:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To detect (something) with radar.
glosses: To defecate during anal sex.
Derived terms: outpaint
overpaint
paintability
paintable
paint a rosy picture
painted lady
painted trillium
painted vulture
painter
painting
paint oneself into a corner
paint out
paint over
paint the tape
paint the town
paint the town red
paint the wagon
paint up
paint with a broad brush
paint with a wide brush
paint with the same brush
prepaint
repaint
underpaint
Related terms: picture