paintbrush

«paintbrush» in Mova's school dictionary: A brush used for putting paint on paper, walls or other… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a paintbrush, paintbrushes)

meaning for a pupil

A brush used for putting paint on paper, walls or other surfaces. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art lessons: thick brushes for big areas, thin brushes for details; rinse your paintbrush in water between colours and clean it at the end. In DIY: big paintbrushes or rollers for walls and fences.

examples

• Rinse your paintbrush before you use a new colour. tree →
• Use a thin paintbrush for the eyes. tree →
• Dad painted the fence with a big paintbrush. tree →
• My paintbrush has soft bristles. tree →
• Put the paintbrushes in the jar to dry. tree →
• Don't leave your paintbrush standing in the water pot. tree →

note

One word: paintbrush. Plural: «paintbrushes» (add -es after «sh»). Leaving a brush standing on its bristles bends them; dry it lying flat or bristles up.

In the corpora

• Paintbrushes are washed straight after painting, because dry paint goes hard and ruins them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «paintbrush» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.