paint

/peɪnt/

noun 6verb 5name 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

acrylic, oil, poster

The children used poster paints to decorate their classroom walls with colorful designs.

QUANT

blob, speck, splash, spot

A blob of paint landed on my shirt when I was decorating the bedroom.

coat

The old house needed at least two coats of paint to cover the stains.

layer

A thick layer of paint covered the old wooden fence.

lick

Even just a lick of paint can completely transform how old furniture looks.

jar, pot, tube

box, set

She bought a box of paints for her son's art class at school.

VERB + PAINT

apply, put on, spray | daub with, spatter with, splash with | remove, scrape off, strip (off) | mix | dilute, thin

PAINT + VERB

dry

blister, chip, crack, flake (off), peel

The old wooden door had paint chipping away in several places.

PAINT + NOUN

brush (also paintbrush) | pot | manufacturer, shop

job

The old house needed a fresh paint job before we could rent it out to tenants.

(verb.)

ADV

carefully

badly, crudely

My younger brother painted the bedroom walls so badly that we had to repaint them the next week.

beautifully, exquisitely

brightly, gaily

The children gaily painted their bedroom walls in shades of yellow and blue.

garishly, gaudily

PREP

She decided to paint in watercolors after taking a class at the community center.

The artist carefully painted on the wooden wall to create a beautiful mural.

with

She carefully painted the wooden door with bright blue color to match the shutters.

PHRASES

freshly/newly painted, paint sth blue, white, etc.

The bedroom looked much brighter after we painted it white last summer.

Definitions

noun

A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.

fresh coat of paint

A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.

René went back into the kitchen and put a pot of coffee on, got out his paints and started on a new painting. He felt inspired.

The free-throw lane, construed with the.

The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.

Early on it was the Bulldogs who were clearly the aggressors, playing hard in the paint and getting baskets with muscle more than with their shooting prowess.

Paintballs.

I am running low on paint for my marker.

Synonym of face card (king, queen, or jack).

verb

To apply paint to.

I painted the bathroom walls light blue, and I painted the ceiling white.

The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

To apply in the manner that paint is applied.

To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.

To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.

not painted with the crimson spots of blood

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

To create (an image) with paints.

to paint a portrait or a landscape

noun

A paint horse.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surfa

pigment

noun — makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the che

noun — (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of t

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

paint the town red

To party or celebrate in a rowdy, wild manner, especially in a public place.

It was the end of term and students decided to celebrate by painting the town red.

paint oneself into a corner

To create a predicament or problem for oneself; to do something that leaves one with no good alternatives or solutions.

The Coens [Coen brothers] write their screenplays in a manner as unorthodox as the films that result from them. […] They paint themselves into a corner, plotwise, then perform what

paint with a broad brush

To describe a class of objects or a kind of phenomenon in general terms, without specific details and without attention to individual variations.

I'm just painting with a broad brush. You fellows fill in the details.

paint the wagon

To get things done.

John, you still haven’t closed that deal; you need to paint that wagon now!

know someone from a can of paint

Synonym of know someone from Adam.

Example Bank

fresh coat of paint

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René went back into the kitchen and put a pot of coffee on, got out his paints and started on a new painting. He felt inspired.

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The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.

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I painted the bathroom walls light blue, and I painted the ceiling white.

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not painted with the crimson spots of blood

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Usage Notes

i Register

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