paint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪnt/
note: Indic
ipa: /pɛjɳʈ/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /peɳʈ/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: paints
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: fresh coat of paint
glosses: 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.
examples: text: René went back into the kitchen and put a pot of coffee on, got out his paints and started on a new painting. He felt inspired.
ref: 2007, Jesse Guthrie, Catherine's Addiction, page 116:
glosses: A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
examples: text: The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
text: Early on it was the Bulldogs who were clearly the aggressors, playing hard in the paint and getting baskets with muscle more than with their shooting prowess.
ref: 2013 December 12, “JV Dogs suffer first loss, 47-41”, in Martinez (California) News-Gazette:
text: Isaiah Thomas is very clever, very crafty getting to the paint and finishing in the paint.
ref: 2016 April 20, “Hawks not giving Celtics anything in the paint”, in Comcast SportsNet New England:
text: In Game 3, they re-focused on protecting the paint and transition defense. The Cavs scored 106 points in the paint in the first two games and just 20 in Game 3.
ref: 2016 May 22, “Renewed defensive strategy has Raptors alive in conference finals”, in USA TODAY:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The free-throw lane, construed with the.
examples: text: I am running low on paint for my marker.
topics: games
paintball
glosses: Paintballs.
topics: card-games
poker
hypernyms: playing card
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card#Noun
glosses: Synonym of face card (king, queen, or jack).
synonyms: word: face card
extra: king, queen, or jack
examples: text: It combines traditional paint capabilities with photograph enhancement features.
ref: 1993, Emil Ihrig, CorelDRAW! 4 made easy:
text: Computer paint software operates similarly but adds features that are delightfully familiar and useful to artists trained in traditional graphics materials.
ref: 1998, Kit Laybourne, The animation book: a complete guide to animated filmmaking:
text: If using a paint package, you must specify the color before you draw the line or shape.
ref: 2001, Maureen Sprankle, Problem Solving for Information Processing:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
examples: text: They were as plain and homely as a table-top dancer when the rains had wiped the paint and powder from her face.
ref: 2012, Caleb Pirtle, Shelly Marshall, Other Voices, Other Towns: The Traveler's Story, →ISBN:
glosses: Makeup.
synonyms: ink
glosses: Tattoo work.
glosses: Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
examples: text: Smaller target paints would also be preferred to those displayed on the existing DFTI.
ref: 1973, International Conference on Radar--Present and Future, 23-25 October, 1973, page 203:
glosses: The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
Derived terms: bepaint
bodypaint
body paint
corpsepaint
depaint
digipaint
electropaint
emulsion paint
eyepaint
facepaint
face paint
fingerpaint
finger-paint
finger paint
fresh as paint
go hard in the paint
greasepaint
impaint
Indian paint rock
inpaint
know someone from a can of paint
latex paint
lick of paint
like an explosion in a paint factory
mispaint
nonpaint
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
paint pot
paint-pot
paintpot
paintproof
Paint Rock
paint rock
paint-root
paintroot
paint shaker
paint shop
paintstick
paint stripper
paint thinner
paintwork
painty
points in the paint
polypaint
poster paint
smart as paint
speedpaint
spray paint
throat paint
trade paint
unpaint
war-paint
war paint
watch paint dry
whore paint
whore-paint
whore's paint
yellow paint