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Paint

noun

1.

A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating. Synonym: pigment.

2.

(basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court. Synonym: key. "He dominates play in the paint"

3.

Makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks. Synonyms: blusher, rouge.

verb

(past & past part. painted; pres. part. painting)

1.

Make a painting. "He painted a painting of the garden"

2.

Apply paint to; coat with paint.

3.

Make a painting of.

4.

Apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil.

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"Paint" Quotes from Famous Books

... what to do with themselves in the country. There are staid and respectable mansions that never move from the even tenor of their ways; and there are houses that change their fashions every season, putting on a new coat of paint every spring; and there is one that dresses itself out in summer with so many flags and streamers that one might imagine Fourth of ...

— Laicus - The experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish • Lyman Abbott

... from a very questionable model, his labours in adorning the figure-head are apt to produce strange monsters. I once heard of a captain who indulged his boatswain in this whim of representing his absent love as far as the king's allowance of paint could carry the art; and it must be owned, that, as the original Dulcinea owed her roses to the same source, the representation "came very close aboard of the original," as the delighted boatswain expressed it. This very proximity ...

— The Lieutenant and Commander - Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from - Fragments of Voyages and Travels • Basil Hall

... tiny old lady sat in a wheel chair in the center of the room. Her skin was almost as yellow as the paint on the house and considerably more wrinkled. She had bright black eyes that reminded Rosemary of a bird and little, eager claw-like hands that were strangely bird-like, too. She beamed at the girls, plainly delighted ...

— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence

... things were done by machinery at the Egyptian Hall. Faces also, it was believed, were seen looking out of the cabinet which Mr. Parker had once more helped to erect this morning; but these, it was explained, were "done" by luminous paint. Finally, if people insisted on looking into causes, Electricity was a sufficient answer for all the rest. No one ...

— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson

... (Nor think my friend th' assertion bold) 20 This languid age-enfeebled mind, As in life's prime, it's powers unfold—- Again th' ideal scenes arise, The visions stream before my eyes, Resistless on the rous'd imagination pour, And paint themselves ...

— A Pindarick Ode on Painting - Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. • Thomas Morrison

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