painted
part of speech
verb past and past participle (paint, paints, painted, painting); adjective (painted)
meaning for a pupil
1) Painted is the past form of paint: colour was put on it. tree →
2) Painted means made as a picture with paint: «She painted a horse». tree →
3) Painted describes something covered in paint: a painted fence. tree →
4) Painted can also mean false or pretended, covering up what is really there. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It describes Jezebel who painted her eyes before Jehu came, and a house colored with red paint by an unjust king. Interpretation: Tradition sees Jezebel's act as proud defiance before her death, and the king's fine house as wrong when built on injustice. In the primary lessons: In maths: an action already done: things painted so far, or what is still to paint; painted faces of cubes. In art and everyday life: a painted wall, painted nails. In science: animals with «painted» patterns, like the painted lady butterfly. In stories: «the painted door».
examples
- And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window. (Prophets 2KI.9.30, JPS 1917) tree →
- That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. (Prophets JER.22.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- She painted 5 of the 12 walls. tree →
- He painted 3 pictures yesterday. tree →
- How many walls are not painted yet? tree →
- The painted fence is 20 meters long. tree →
- The children painted the classroom door bright red. tree →
- A painted lady is a kind of butterfly. tree →
- The big cube is painted on all sides and cut into small cubes. tree →
- Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa. tree →
- They went home painted victors and loud-voiced singers. tree →
note
What is painted is done; what is left = total − painted. Trap: «painted» and «not painted» add up to the total. In cube puzzles, count painted faces carefully: corner cubes have 3, edge cubes 2.
In the corpora
- One coat of paint often looks patchy, so a second coat is painted on once the first is dry.
- Maria Prymachenko was a Ukrainian folk artist from the village of Bolotnia who painted bright, imaginary animals.
- Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige to learn from them, and that influence changed his style.
- Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down.
- The Queen sees the half-painted roses and orders the gardeners' heads off.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «painted» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.