painting Definition

paint
noun

1. Colouring matter in the form of a liquid which is applied to a surface and dries forming a hard surface.

Thesaurus: oils, enamel, lacquer, primer, stain, tint, colour, dye.
2. A dried coating of this.
3. A tube or tablet of colouring matter for creating pictures.
4. old use
Face make-up; cosmetics.

verb painted, painting

1. To apply a coat of paint to (walls, woodwork, etc).

Thesaurus: cover, coat, tint, decorate, ornament.
2. To turn something a certain colour by this means.

Example: paint the door yellow
tr & intr
3. To make (pictures) using paint.

Thesaurus: compose, shade, tint, wash.
4. To depict (a person, place or thing) in paint.

Thesaurus: portray, picture, depict, shade, tint, wash.
5. To describe (a scene, place or person) as if in paint.
tr & intr
6. old use
To put make-up on (one's face).

Derivative: paintable
adj

Suitable for painting.

Idiom: paint the town red

To go out and celebrate something lavishly.

Etymology: 13c: from French peint, past participle of peindre to paint.

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painting
noun

1. A painted picture.

Thesaurus: portrait, picture, depiction, representation, illustration, landscape, mural, oil painting, still life, watercolour, fresco.
2. The art or process of applying paint to walls, etc.
3. The art of creating pictures in paint.
4. A vivid description in words.