to paint
- verb
- /peɪnt/
- After gathering his supplies, he was ready to paint the canvas with bright colors.
- paint a picture
- paint a portrait
- paint a mural
And a good painter will not just paint, he needs to create.
- And a good painter will not just paint, he needs to create.
- So, so maybe paint like a, a picture of that moment.
- What Rubens could paint and how he could paint it is over the top.
- Like, I saw him paint rocks from nothing.
- The painting wasn't painted by somebody in some cellar.
- So he was, but that's the only time he ever paint painted himself.
Examples
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Why don't you just paint my portrait?
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Well, why did you stop painting?
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So, so maybe paint like a, a picture of that moment.
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It's it's an interesting style to paint people in.
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And then when I painted it, the magic took place.
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Soon, it seems that half the people in the camp are painting themselves or one another.
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And we're going to do that by painting on top of this layer.
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And that's why you should always paint your house yellow.
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And these two alpaca farmers are painting their mountain white.
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Many business owners painted Italian murals on the formerly blank sides of their buildings.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
To put paint on paper using your fingers
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Put yourself in a difficult situation with no easy way out
- Informal
Describe people or things in very general ways that ignore important details
- Informal
To not recognize someone at all because you have never met them
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A water-based paint that uses latex to make color stay on walls and furniture
- Specialized
A water-based paint made from milk protein and used for painting pictures and decorations
- Specialized
Paint applied to a boat's hull to stop barnacles and algae from growing
- US
A European plant that lives for one year with small green flowers and bright red berries
- US
A North American plant that lives for many years with grey hairy leaves and a red or yellow dye
- Specialized
A water-based paint that stays flexible, lasts a long time and resists moisture
A simple painting kit with numbered areas to fill with set colors, or a predictable way of doing something
A fixed, simple way of doing creative work that leaves little room for new ideas
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Etymology
To paint a picture comes from Latin pingere 'to color', the same root you see in the word picture, so painting is making a picture with color.