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Paint

noun

1.

A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating. Synonym: pigment.

2.

(basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court. Synonym: key. "He dominates play in the paint"

3.

Makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks. Synonyms: blusher, rouge.

verb

(past & past part. painted; pres. part. painting)

1.

Make a painting. "He painted a painting of the garden"

2.

Apply paint to; coat with paint.

3.

Make a painting of.

4.

Apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil.

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... noblest eulogies ever written. "We should," says Renan, "have known nothing of Antoninus if Marcus Aurelius had not handed down to us that exquisite portrait of his adopted father, in which he seems, by reason of humility, to have applied himself to paint an image superior to what he himself was. Antoninus resembled a Christ who would not have had an evangel; Marcus Aurelius a Christ who would have written ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various

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— Five Nights • Victoria Cross

... reduced to hard realities. The fire that warmed the studio was a real fire. The light that entered through the windows was real light. The studio was but a real working room, and she but a real flesh-and-blood girl standing there in a paint-soiled apron with a palette in one hand and a brush ...

— Mixed Faces • Roy Norton

... that very moment the cobbler was in the grocery kept by Deacon Abrams, shouting, "We've got him again, Deacon! He's in town. He works in a paint shop—had paint on his face. Or else he's a blacksmith, or he works in coal, or something black—or dusty. We can run ...

— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard

... which were moored to the quay, but there was no life in them; not a sail was set, not a boatman or a sailor was to be seen, and the very water looked as though it were hot. I could fancy the glare of the sun was cracking the paint on the gunwales of the boats. I was the only visitor in the house, and during all the long hours of the morning it seemed as though the ...

— George Walker At Suez • Anthony Trollope

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