| 单词 | to paint out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto paint out to paint out transitive. 1. To express or display by painting. Also figurative: = sense 4a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > paint [verb (transitive)] meteOE depaint?c1225 paintc1275 stain1519 to paint out1553 depeinct1579 limn1593 impaint1598 pencil1610 stroke1624 depencil1631 brush1897 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 95 Not onely are matters set out by description, but men are painted out in their colours. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 461 b Emongest many pictures of our Lady..the very same which Luke did painte out for his owne use, and reserved with great reverence. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xv. 27 Their miserable ends painted out in playes and pageants, to shew the mutabilitie of fortune. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 100 Clau. Disloyall? Bast. The word is too good to paint out her wickednesse. View more context for this quotation 1740 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature III. ii. 65 The golden age..is painted out to us, as the most charming and most peaceable condition, that can..be imagin'd. 1766 I. Bickerstaff Plain Dealer ii. iii. 23 Madam, give me leave to paint her out to you a little, because I am intimately acquainted with the family. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xlii. 128 Not an indefinite adversity, but a ruin in detail, which his thoughts painted out with the sharpest, ugliest intensity. 1886 J. S. Blackie Messis Vitae 16 If you should fear I'm painting out a story, Ask, and you will hear The truth at Tobermory. 2. = sense 4b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] depaint?c1225 paintc1275 figurec1380 resemblea1393 portraya1398 represent?a1425 impicture1523 portrait1548 shadow1553 to paint forth1558 storize1590 personate1591 limn1593 propound1594 model1604 table1607 semble1610 rendera1616 to paint out1633 person1644 present1649 to figure out1657 historize1668 to fancy out1669 to take off1680 figurate1698 refer1700 display1726 depicture1739 depict1817 actualize1848 1633 Abp. Williams in Laud's Wks. (1857) VI. 336 [They] have with their deceitful colours..painted me out as ugly unto your grace as they have done your grace formidable unto me. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 177 That notable Amazon..is painted out as a very Masculine Lady. a1776 D. Hume Ess., Lit., Moral, & Polit. (1870) xl. iii. 419 The state of nature..is painted out as a state of mutual war and violence. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. vi. 138 Some good-natured friend in the dark has painted you out for a reprobate. 1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Sports section) 10 d I've been painted out to be an ogre. 1998 Hindu (Nexis) 13 May The Coca Cola trination tournament..was painted out to be the tournament that nobody but the Board wanted. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > repeat in a copy > copy in colours to paint out1670 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 52 Tho. Earle of Arundel got leaue to haue it painted out. 4. To obliterate or efface by covering with paint. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by covering with liquid unpainta1648 bisk1713 to paint out1834 to black out1850 ink out1881 to white out1974 Tippex1983 1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. v. 82 Painting out signs, and carrying off platforms. 1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol i. 3 Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. 1927 R. Fry Let. 27 Aug. (1972) II. 607 How often I've had to paint out the best piece of a picture. 1966 D. Francis Flying Finish xiv. 174 Giuseppe..was..painting out the airline's name on the fuselage. 1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) iv. 222 Later paintings showed Periyar, after independence, painting out the Hindu names of railway stations in the South. 5. Nautical. To apply paint to all appropriate parts of (a ship, deck, etc.). Cf. sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > paint [verb (transitive)] paintc1275 depaintc1320 englose1430 bepaint1567 superficialize1593 repaint1600 overpaint1611 repassa1806 colour-wash1850 distemper1870 respray1880 to paint out1902 aerosol1979 1902 B. Lubbock Round Horn viii. 302 The great day for cleaning and painting out the half-deck has come... The steward also painted out his berth to-day. 1924 ‘P. Blundell’ Confessions of Seaman ii. 28 When was it painted out last, I should like to know? 1963 S. Hayden Wanderer (1964) i. 8 You've painted her out—you've even changed her name? < as lemmas |
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