Paint

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Noun

paint

  1. 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.
  2. (in plural paints) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
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Translations

substance

paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours

Verb

to paint (present participle: painting, past tense and past participe: painted)

  1. (transitive) To apply paint to
  2. (transitive) To apply (something) in the manner that paint is applied
  3. (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures


Translations

practise the art of painting pictures

apply paint to

apply something in the manner of paint

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Derived terms

See also

io:paint it:paint hu:paint fi:paint zh:paint

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