单词 | paint |
释义 | paint (peɪnt ) Word forms: paints , painting , painted 1. variable noun A1 Paint is a coloured liquid that you put onto a surface with a brush in order to protect the surface or to make it look nice, or that you use to produce a picture. ...a pot of red paint. They saw some large letters in white paint. ...water-based artist's paints. Synonyms: colouring, colour, stain, dye 2. singular noun A1 On a wall or object, the paint is the covering of dried paint on it. The paint was peeling on the window frames. They'll probably scrape the paint off and make it look like a regular patrol car. 3. verb A2 If you paint a wall or an object, you cover it with paint. They started to mend the woodwork and paint the walls. [VERB noun] I made a guitar and painted it red. [V n colour] ...painted furniture. [VERB-ed] 4. verb A1 If you paint something or paint a picture of it, you produce a picture of it using paint. He is painting a huge volcano. [VERB noun] Why do people paint pictures? [VERB noun] I had come here to paint. [VERB] 5. verb B1+ When you paint a design or message on a surface, you put it on the surface using paint. ...a machine for painting white lines down roads. [VERB noun preposition] They went around painting rude slogans on cars. [VERB noun preposition] The recesses are decorated with gold stars, with smaller stars painted along the edges. [VERB-ed] 6. verb If someone paints their lips or nails, they put a coloured cosmetic on them. She propped the mirror against her handbag and began to paint her lips. [VERB noun] She painted her fingernails bright red. [V n colour] 7. verb If you paint a grim or vivid picture of something, you give a description of it that is grim or vivid. The report paints a grim picture of life there. [VERB noun] He went on to paint a rosy picture about how much has already been accomplished. [VERB noun] Synonyms: describe, capture, portray, depict 8. See also gloss paint, oil paint, painting, poster paint, war paint Image of paint © Peter Wollinga, Shutterstock Quotations: And those who paint ' em truest praise 'em mostThe Campaign Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend Idioms: paint yourself into a corner or box yourself into a corner to find yourself in a difficult situation where you have to act in a certain way I've been watching her these last few years. She's painted herself into a corner. She is trapped. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers something is like watching paint dry said to mean that you find something extremely boring `We've done one shot since nine this morning,' complains Donna, a student who has taken the day off to be an extra. `It's like watching paint dry.' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers paint the town red to go out and enjoy yourself Let's go out and paint the town red! Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: paint a design Artists will help you paint designs on glass and make patterns with stickers, which will be sandblasted to create lanterns. Times, Sunday Times To make the optical play toys, he painted designs on flat cardboard circles and spun them on a phonographic turntable. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Both of the red clay types can also be found highly decorated with colorfully painted designs while the black ones are usually plain and unfinished. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was during this period that many design houses began to hire artists to sketch or paint designs for garments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A few years later she began to paint on fabric, painting designs on clothing using a restrained linear style. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The student was asked to design and paint the panels. Times, Sunday Times It suggests painting a panel of full gloss onto an estate emulsion wall in the same colour to create a striking, textured and ultra-contemporary look. Times, Sunday Times You reach the restaurant down steps with a gold carpet and along a striking hallway with wood panels painted deep purple. Times, Sunday Times They're curious anomalies: panels painted in household gloss according to the template of swing doors in hospitals. Times, Sunday Times He painted the panel in 1999. Times,Sunday Times Paint your picture using acrylics and a very fine paintbrush. Times, Sunday Times But politicians also have to paint a picture. Times, Sunday Times I don't need you to paint a picture of endless, lazy, predictable, sunny days. Times, Sunday Times He would often paint a picture with words about a piece he was going to play, engaging the mind's eye as well as the ears. Times, Sunday Times How do you paint a picture of what a nation believes, hopes, likes and loathes? Times,Sunday Times T here's nothing more old-fashioned than commissioning an artist to paint your portrait, right? Times, Sunday Times The case attracted lots of attention, but we want to paint a portrait of him which wasn't revealed in the media. Times, Sunday Times Those who worked with and for him s then paint a portrait of an obsessive, intense coach whose life was constructed entirely around his work. Times, Sunday Times He decided to paint my portrait. Christianity Today I asked if he had taken the chance to paint his portrait, but he had not. Times, Sunday Times His father had ordered an artist to paint a scene on the ceiling. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From him, she says, she learned to use layers of sensuous detail to paint her scenes, allowing the reader to move from the concrete to the abstract. Globe and Mail For the latter, he painted a scene of intercession for those afflicted with the plague. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 So if you want to paint a wall pink or a fence blue, make sure it gets as much sunshine as possible. Times, Sunday Times It's a nice way to add colour without having to necessarily paint the wall or put art up. Times,Sunday Times If you can't paint a wall, use a blue note pad. The Sun Or paint the wall with blackboard paint. Times, Sunday Times If you can't afford to paint a wall then paint wall, furniture instead. The Sun You can redecorate using the paint shop, with tools from the ironmonger. Times, Sunday Times This will see 1,000 new robots for the paint shop. The Sun The paint shop was completely automated to prepare for its launch. Times, Sunday Times She now works full-time in the firm's paint shop. The Sun They asked in the paint shop how long the bad weather would last and were advised that the outlook for several days was not good. Times, Sunday Times Peeling paint covered the vaulted ceilings and ground-floor rooms had been used for agricultural storage. Times, Sunday Times The walls are artfully faded, with peeling paint, scuff marks and remnants of ancient wallpaper. Times, Sunday Times Even with the peeling paint, it has an air of elegance, and it's a lovely walk through the 17th-century town centre. Times, Sunday Times I carried on weightlessly floating, my head and back skimming the peeling paint on the ceiling. The Sun Peeling paint should be rubbed down and reapplied, and any gaps or rot should be dealt with at the same time. Times, Sunday Times The hospital, made mainly from aluminium, glass, metal panels, and concrete, has rooms which utilize artificial materials such as plastic paint and linoleum floors to facilitate easy cleaning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Color field, curiously enough or perhaps not, became a viable way of painting at exactly the time that acrylic paint, the new plastic paint, came into being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They had much of the black plastic painted body color and special dual exhaust system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Both mudguards were plastic painted in red. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He didn't need to strip paint from the walls. The Sun He had a voice that could strip paint at 50 paces. Times, Sunday Times They could strip paint off a wall. The Sun As well as an observer - her eyes, as she has written, could strip paint from the walls - a writer needs to be a listener. Times, Sunday Times Instead, it can withstand sandstorms powerful enough to strip paint off steel, without any apparent damage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In his youth he created monochrome abstractions drawn with pencil and conté crayon directly on to wet paint. Times, Sunday Times It will stop wet paint getting splashed on the frame. Times, Sunday Times It also pinched food from builders and scurried about threatening to leave paw prints in wet paint. The Sun Very fresh and cool on the nose at first - wet paint, damp earth, a slight saltiness, before an underlying thickness emerges, with hints of cocoa powder and vanilla. Times, Sunday Times He uses salt, sprinkled into the wet paint, then rubbed off when dry, to achieve certain textures, and clingfilm, impressed into a wet wash and removed when dry. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 涂料, 油漆, 画 Japanese: ペンキ, 絵を描く, (絵の具で)・・・を描く |
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