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paint
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)
- 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.
- (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
- (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
- The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
- (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.
- I am running low on paint for my marker.
- (poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
- (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
- (uncountable) Makeup.
- (uncountable, slang) Tattoo work.
- Synonym: ink
- (dated) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
- 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.
- 1973, International Conference on Radar--Present and Future, 23-25 October, 1973 (page 203)
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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)
- (transitive) To apply paint to.
- (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
- (transitive, medicine) To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
- (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.
- c. 1590s, William Shakespeare, Spring (poem)
- (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.
- to paint a portrait or a landscape
- (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
- I've been painting since I was a young child.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
- (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.
- (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
- (transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.
Derived terms
Related terms
- picture
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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
- present participle of pair
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photograph
English
Etymology
photo- +? -graph.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??.t?.?????f/, [?f??.t???.??????f]
- (US) IPA(key): /?fo?.t?.???æf/, [?f??.??.????æf]
Noun
photograph (plural photographs)
- A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- photograph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)
- (transitive) and (intransitive) To take a photograph (of).
- 1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing
- He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
- 1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing
- (transitive, figuratively) To fix permanently in the memory etc.
- 1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands
- He is photographed on my mind.
- 1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands
- (intransitive) To appear in a photograph.
Translations
Anagrams
- phagotroph
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