paint
part of speech
noun (paint, paints); verb (paint, paints, painted, painting)
meaning for a pupil
1) Paint is a coloured liquid you put on things to colour them or protect them. tree →
2) To paint is to put paint on something, like a wall. tree →
3) To paint is also to make a picture with paint. tree →
4) «Paints» are a set of colours for art. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: paint measured in cans or litres; walls, fences or pictures painted per hour; area covered per can. In art class: paints, brushes, mixing colours. In science: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange; paint dries as the water evaporates. In everyday life: «wet paint» signs.
examples
- One can of paint covers 10 square meters. tree →
- She paints 3 pictures a day. tree →
- He needs 4 cans of paint. tree →
- How long will it take to paint 12 fences? tree →
- Mix blue and yellow paint to make green. tree →
- Careful, wet paint! tree →
- We painted a picture of the sea in art class. tree →
- My box of paints has twelve colours. tree →
- Oh, if he could only draw and paint! tree →
note
Paint per area or pictures per day give rates. Trap: the number of cans may need rounding up. Paint (the liquid) is usually uncountable: «some paint», but «paints» for a set. Safety: open a window when using strong paint; do not eat paint.
In the corpora
- One coat of paint often looks patchy, so a second coat is painted on once the first is dry.
- Mixing many paint colours together makes brown or grey, because each paint soaks up different parts of the light.
- Oil paint is pigment mixed with oil, often linseed oil; it dries slowly, so painters could blend smoothly.
- A mural is a big planned painting on a wall; without permission painting on walls is damage, even at home.
- Maria Prymachenko was a Ukrainian folk artist from the village of Bolotnia who painted bright, imaginary animals.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «paint» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.