different between paint vs knight

English

Etymology

From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin ping? (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English t?afor (“paint”) and *t?efran (“to paint”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?nt

Noun

paint (countable and uncountable, plural paints)

1. A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
2. (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
3. (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.

   The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
4. (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.

   I am running low on paint for my marker.

5. (poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
6. (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
7. (uncountable) Makeup.
8. (uncountable, slang) Tattoo work.

   Synonym: ink

9. (dated) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
10. The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
    • 1973, International Conference on Radar--Present and Future, 23-25 October, 1973 (page 203)

      Smaller target paints would also be preferred to those displayed on the existing DFTI.

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Translations

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Verb

paint (third-person singular simple present paints, present participle painting, simple past and past participle painted)

1. (transitive) To apply paint to.
2. (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
3. (transitive, medicine) To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
4. (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
   • c. 1590s, William Shakespeare, Spring (poem)

     Cuckoo buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight.

5. (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.

   to paint a portrait or a landscape

6. (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.

   I've been painting since I was a young child.

7. (transitive, graphical user interface) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
8. (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.
9. (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
10. (transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.

Derived terms

Related terms

• picture

Translations

Further reading

• paint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• paint in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• paint at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Atnip, NAITP, inapt, inpat, nip at, patin, pinta, tap in, tap-in

Catalan

Verb

paint

1. present participle of pair

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?t, IPA^(key): /na?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: night, nite

Etymology 1

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy, servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

Alternative forms

• knyght

Noun

knight (plural knights)

1. (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
2. (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
3. (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.

   King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

4. (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
5. (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
6. (chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
7. (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
8. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
9. (modern) A generic name for various mushrooms belonging to the order Agaricales, the gilled mushrooms; scientific name Tricholoma.

Synonyms

• (chess piece): horse (informal)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Chess pieces

Etymology 2

From Middle English knighten, kni?ten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.

Verb

knight (third-person singular simple present knights, present participle knighting, simple past and past participle knighted)

1. (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.

2. (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

Synonyms

• dub

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• paladin
• baronet

Middle English

Alternative forms

• knighte, knyght, knyghte, kni?t, kni?te, kny?t, kny?te

Etymology

From Old English cniht, from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knixt/, [kniçt]
• (dialectal or Late ME) IPA^(key): /kni?t/
• Rhymes: -ixt

Noun

knight (plural knightes or knighten)

1. knight

Descendants

• English: knight
• Scots: knicht
• Yola: nickht

References

• “kn??ght, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.