paint
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paint (plural paints)
- 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.
- (in plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
- (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
- The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
- (uncountable) (paintball, slang) Paintballs.
- I am running low on paint for my marker.
- (poker slang) A face card (King, Queen, or Jack)
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Terms derived from the noun "paint"
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substance
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paints: set of containers or blocks of paints of different colours
[edit] References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
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to paint (third-person singular simple present paints, present participle painting, simple past and past participle painted)
- (transitive) To apply paint to
- (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied
- (transitive) To create an image with paints
- (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures
- (transitive) (computing) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
- 1991, Ernest R Tello, Object-oriented Programming for Windows
- Sent to a minimized window when the icon's background must be filled before it is painted.
- 1991, Ernest R Tello, Object-oriented Programming for Windows
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Terms derived from the verb "paint"
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apply paint to
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apply in the manner of paint
create an image
practise the art of painting pictures
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