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  • n  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
  • n  (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 dominates play in the paint
  • n  makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
  • v  make a painting
    he painted all day in the garden
    He painted a painting of the garden
  • v  apply paint to; coat with paint
    We painted the rooms yellow
  • v  make a painting of
    He painted his mistress many times
  • v  apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil

  • Not quite art yet not entirely craft, paint-by-number kits were all the rage during the 1950s and '60s.
  • Either way, lead paint in toys from China is not an issue Mattel can correct overnight.
  • The strength of her presence isn't due just to her depicted fatness but to the way the image burgeons from dense paint, a heavy mass like cream with gravel in it.
News & Articles

  • Paint job a prelude to new restaurant
    YUCCA VALLEY — The paint on a future business here has people wondering.
    June 12, 2013 - Desert Trail
  • Lead paint found at Branch County Library building
    Coldwater — The main Branch County Library building needs major repairs, including the removal of lead paint.
    June 11, 2013 - Detroit News
  • Paint Twp. ethics probe ongoing
    In recent months, Paint Township’s meeting room has become a makeshift workspace for a state Ethics Commission investigator. At a time when state Ethics Commission officials, per policy, have not commented on the presence, let alone status, of a Paint Township probe, and township supervisors say they are in the dark, the investigator’s steady presence over the last few months has been the ...
    June 10, 2013 - The Tribune-Democrat
Quotes

  • Jack Cafferty in International Herald Tribune
    We continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart,Cafferty said,...
  • Kevin Macdonald in Seattle Post Intelligencer
    It's not a mainstream film I'm going to make, it's an experimental film,Macdonald said. "I don't think that everybody can write a great novel, and I don't believe that everybody can paint a great picture. But in this instance, people can...
  • Barack Obama in San Jose Mercury News
    ...on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009 in Dillon, SC More than a year before Obama mentioned JV Martin Junior High in his speech to Congress Tuesday night, he visited the school in the poor, rural city of Dillon and saw how "the paint peels off the...

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