paint

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Singular
paint

Plural
paints

paint (plural paints)

  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) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
  3. (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
    The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
  4. (uncountable) (paintball, slang) Paintballs.
    I am running low on paint for my marker.
  5. (poker slang) A face card (King, Queen, or Jack)

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Infinitive
to paint

Third person singular
paints

Simple past
painted

Past participle
painted

Present participle
painting

to paint (third-person singular simple present paints, present participle painting, simple past and past participle painted)

  1. (transitive) To apply paint to
  2. (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied
  3. (transitive) To create an image with paints
  4. (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures
  5. (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.

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