Definition of paint

"paint" in the noun sense

1. paint, pigment

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

"artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably"

2. key, paint

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

"he hit a jump shot from the top of the key"

"he dominates play in the paint"

3. rouge, paint, blusher

makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks

"paint" in the verb sense

1. paint

make a painting

"he painted all day in the garden"

"He painted a painting of the garden"

2. paint

apply paint to coat with paint

"We painted the rooms yellow"

3. paint

make a painting of

"He painted his mistress many times"

4. paint

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

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Quotations for paint

Fair faces need no paint. [ Proverb ]

A good face needs no paint. [ Proverb ]

Blind men's wives need no paint. [ Proverb ]

Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]

What skilful limner ever would choose
To paint the rainbow's varying hues.
Unless to mortal it were given
To dip his brush in dyes of heaven? [ Scott ]

One of those passing rainbow dreams.
Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams
Paint on the fleeting mists that roll,
In trance or slumber, round the soul! [ Moore ]

It is human actions paint the chart of time. [ Montgomery ]

The lion is not: so fierce as they paint him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God sends experience to paint men's portraits. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. [ Chinese Proverb ]

For whom does the blind man's wife paint herself? [ Proverb ]

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity. [ Tertullian ]

When you see a woman paint, your heart needna faint. [ Scotch Proverb ]

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye! [ Balzac ]

It would take an angel from above to paint the immortal soul. [ Mrs. Welby ]

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not possess. [ Emerson ]

A double task to paint the finest features of the mind, and to most subtle and mysterious things give color, strength, and motion. [ Akenside ]

Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way, from the eye, through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! [ Lessing ]

Nobody but you owes you anything. Accept it and move on. The canvas of your life is yours. It is what you make of it. Paint it well.

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections. [ Hume ]

The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers. [ Emerson ]

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion. [ Tertullian ]

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust. [ Colton ]

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]

We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners. [ Whipple ]

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint. [ Fielding ]

No woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. They represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the colored. The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability you have merely to take them down to supper. The other women are very charming. They commit one mistake, however. They paint in order to try to look young. Our grandmothers painted in order to try to talk brilliantly. Rouge and esprit used to go together. That has all gone out now. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

paint in Scrabble®

The word paint is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters paint:

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paint in Words With Friends™

The word paint is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters paint:

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Word Growth involving paint

Shorter words in paint

ai pain

in pain

pa pain

Longer words containing paint

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