Paint

  1. Noun.  a Paint Horse.
  2. 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.
  3. Noun.  (context, in plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
  4. Noun.  (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, ''construed with ''the''.''.
  5. Noun.  (uncountable, paintball) Paintballs.
  6. Noun.  (poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
  7. Noun.  (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
  8. Verb.  (transitive) To apply paint to.
  9. Verb.  (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
  10. Verb.  (transitive) To create an image with paints.
  11. Verb.  (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
  12. Verb.  (transitive, computing) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
  13. Verb.  (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.