paint : Idioms & Phrases

• noun used especially by artists
  acrylic.
  

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• noun a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles
  Abstract Expressionism.
  

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• noun a paint used to protect against the accumulation of barnacles etc. on underwater surfaces
  

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• noun a water-base paint made with a protein precipitated from milk
  casein.
  

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• noun a layer of paint covering something else
  

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• painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire.

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• (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors.

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• a picture of the human figure, or the act or art of depicting the human figure.

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• noun paint that has the consistency of jelly
  fingerpaint.
  

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• verb apply colors with one's fingers
  finger-paint.
  

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• noun a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers
  
• noun painting by using the fingers to spread the paint
  
• verb apply colors with one's fingers
  finger-paint.
  

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• noun a genre depicting everyday life
  

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• the art or process of producing decorative effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting and glass staining (see Glass staining, below) are used indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows, and the like.

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• . See Gold shell.

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• that branch of painting which represents the events of history.

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• noun paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house
  housepaint.
  

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• noun the occupation of a house painter
  painting.
  
  • house painting was the only craft he knew

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• noun perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
  Lithospermum canescens; hoary puccoon.
  
• noun European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit; naturalized North America
  Chenopodium capitatum; strawberry pigweed; strawberry blite.
  

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• . See Bloodroot.

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• noun a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
  landscape.
  

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• noun a water-base paint that has a latex binder
  latex; latex paint.
  

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• a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.

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• a pigment made chiefly of some natural mineral substance, as red or yellow iron ocher.

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• noun a painting of a naked human figure
  nude.
  

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• noun paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle
  

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• noun a picture painted with oil paints
  
• noun the art or method of painting with oil paints
  

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• . (a) The art of painting in oil colors . (b) Any kind of painting of which the pigments are originally ground in oil.

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• verb call to mind
  suggest; evoke.
  
  • this remark evoked sadness

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• noun showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru
  mole plant; Euphorbia heterophylla; Japanese poinsettia.
  

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• noun a roller that has an absorbent surface used for spreading paint
  

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• verb adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)
  gild the lily.
  
• verb make unnecessary additions to what is already complete
  gild the lily.
  

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• noun American butterfly having dark brown wings with white and golden orange spots
  Vanessa virginiensis.
  

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts
  Indian paintbrush.
  

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• noun spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
  Chrysanthemum coccineum; Tanacetum coccineum; pyrethrum.
  

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• noun a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona
  

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• noun greenling with whitish body marked with black bands
  convict fish; Oxylebius pictus; convictfish.
  

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• noun poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla
  fire-on-the-mountain; Mexican fire plant; Euphorbia cyathophora.
  
• noun tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
  lobster plant; Euphorbia pulcherrima; Mexican flameleaf; Christmas star; poinsettia; Christmas flower.
  

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• noun perennial aromatic herb of southeastern Asia having large usually bright-colored or blotched leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Solenostemon
  Solenostemon blumei; Coleus blumei; Joseph's coat; Solenostemon scutellarioides.
  

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• noun sandgrouse of India
  Pterocles indicus.
  

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• noun freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings; common in the eastern United States
  Chrysemys picta; painted terrapin; painted tortoise.
  

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• noun Chilean herb having velvety funnel-shaped yellowish or violet flowers with long tonguelike styles at the corolla throat
  Salpiglossis sinuata.
  

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• noun freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings; common in the eastern United States
  Chrysemys picta; painted terrapin; painted tortoise.
  

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• noun freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings; common in the eastern United States
  Chrysemys picta; painted terrapin; painted tortoise.
  

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• noun any of numerous usually rhizomatous hybrid begonias derived from an East Indian plant having rough-textured leaves patterned in silver and bronze and purple and red-brown with inconspicuous flowers
  rex begonia; Begonia rex; king begonia; beefsteak geranium.
  

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• noun pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk
  poster color; poster colour; tempera.
  

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• noun a water-base paint that has a latex binder
  latex; latex paint.
  

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• noun a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background
  

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• painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, which is on wet or fresh plaster.

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• noun paint applied with a spray gun
  

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• noun applying paint with a sprayer
  

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• noun a painting that is applied to a wall surface
  mural.
  

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• noun adornment consisting of paint applied to the face and body of certain Amerindians before a battle
  
• noun full ceremonial regalia
  
• noun cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance
  makeup; make-up.
  

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• paint put on the face and other parts of the body by savages, as a token of going to war. "Wash the war paint from your faces." Longfellow.

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• noun paint in which water is used as the vehicle
  

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• a kind of painting practiced by the ancients, under the name of encaustic. The pigments were ground with wax, and diluted. After being applied, the wax was melted with hot irons and the color thus fixed.

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• the act of describing an object fully and vividly by words only, so as to present it clearly to the mind, as if in a picture.

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• noun a graphic or vivid verbal description
  picture; delineation; characterization; characterisation; word picture; depiction.
  
  • too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures
  • the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland
  • the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters

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