paint

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
3. (countable, slang, uncountable) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
4. (slang, uncountable) Paintballs.
5. (countable, slang, uncountable) Synonym of face card (king, queen, or jack).
6. (attributive, countable, uncountable) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
7. (uncountable) Makeup.
8. (slang, uncountable) Tattoo work.
9. (countable, dated, uncountable) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
10. (countable, uncountable) The appearance of an object on a radar screen.

Verb

1. (transitive) To apply paint to.
2. (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
3. (transitive) To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
4. (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
5. (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.
6. (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
7. (transitive) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
8. (figuratively, transitive) To depict or portray.
9. (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
10. (slang, transitive) To detect (something) with radar.
11. (slang, transitive) To defecate during anal sex.

Synonyms

draw

dye

colour

color

smear

sketch

depict

varnish

pigment

portray

tint

write

✍️

picture

stain

spread

painting

🖼️

tinge

apply

decorate

lacquer

daub

plaster

delineate

coat

🧥

rouge

ink

hue

describe

represent

design

tincture

anoint

whitewash

make up

rub on

trace

brush

boil

blusher

stipple

shade

put

chromaticity

repaint

sore

outline

oil paint

pigmentation

makeup

cast

Translations

pintar

peindre

malen

dipingere

peinture

🖼️

pintar

schilderen

Farbe

vernice

pintura

🖼️

verf

streichen

pintar

pitturare

pintura

🖼️

Pronounced as (IPA)

/peɪnt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: peynten

In summary

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”).

Sentences

The office paint was a dull , sad tan .

Gray paint stretched for miles around .

Here he continued to paint , primarily birds and other animals .