paint

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
• The free-throw lane, construed with the.
• Paintballs.
• A face card (king, queen, or jack).
• Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
• Makeup.
• Tattoo work.
• Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
• The appearance of an object on a radar screen.

Verb

• To apply paint to.
• 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.
• To create (an image) with paints.
• To practise the art of painting pictures.
• To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
• To depict or portray.
• To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
• To direct a radar beam toward.

Origin

• From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō ("to paint") (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native and *tīefran.