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Paint   /peɪnt/   Listen
noun
Paint  n.  
1.
(a)
A pigment or coloring substance.
(b)
The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.
2.
A cosmetic; rouge.


verb
Paint  v. t.  (past & past part. painted; pres. part. painting)  
1.
To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. "Jezebel painted her face and tired her head."
2.
Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. "Not painted with the crimson spots of blood." "Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight."
3.
To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.
4.
Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict; as, to paint a political opponent as a traitor. "Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her wickedness." "If folly grow romantic, I must paint it."
Synonyms: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe.


Paint  v. t.  
1.
To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.
2.
To color one's face by way of beautifying it. "Let her paint an inch thick."





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"Paint" Quotes from Famous Books



... noblest eulogies ever written. "We should," says Renan, "have known nothing of Antoninus if Marcus Aurelius had not handed down to us that exquisite portrait of his adopted father, in which he seems, by reason of humility, to have applied himself to paint an image superior to what he himself was. Antoninus resembled a Christ who would not have had an evangel; Marcus Aurelius a Christ who would have written ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... a picture, and it struck me suddenly I should like to paint it, just as it was there, and call ...
— Five Nights • Victoria Cross
... reduced to hard realities. The fire that warmed the studio was a real fire. The light that entered through the windows was real light. The studio was but a real working room, and she but a real flesh-and-blood girl standing there in a paint-soiled apron with a palette in one hand and a brush ...
— Mixed Faces • Roy Norton
... that very moment the cobbler was in the grocery kept by Deacon Abrams, shouting, "We've got him again, Deacon! He's in town. He works in a paint shop—had paint on his face. Or else he's a blacksmith, or he works in coal, or something black—or dusty. We can run ...
— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard
... which were moored to the quay, but there was no life in them; not a sail was set, not a boatman or a sailor was to be seen, and the very water looked as though it were hot. I could fancy the glare of the sun was cracking the paint on the gunwales of the boats. I was the only visitor in the house, and during all the long hours of the morning it seemed as though the ...
— George Walker At Suez • Anthony Trollope


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