painted

«painted» in Mova's school dictionary: the past form of paint: colour was put on it — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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.