From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō (perfect passive participle pictus).

• IPA: /peɪnt/

paint

1. A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.

   fresh coat of paint

2. (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
3. (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.

   The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.

4. (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.

   I am running low on paint for my marker.

5. (poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
6. (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
7. (uncountable) Makeup.
8. (uncountable, slang) Tattoo work.

   Synonyms: ink

9. (dated) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
10. The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
    • 1973, International Conference on Radar--Present and Future, 23-25 October, 1973, page 203:

      Smaller target paints would also be preferred to those displayed on the existing DFTI.

• French: peinture
• German: Farbe, Lack
• Italian: vernice (housepaint), colore, pittura (regional)
• Portuguese: pintura, tinta
• Russian: кра́ска
• Spanish: pintura

• Russian: кра́ски

paint (paints, present participle painting; simple past and past participle painted)

1. (transitive) To apply paint to.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter I, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:

     The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

2. (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
3. (transitive, medicine) To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
4. (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     not painted with the crimson spots of blood

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour's Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Cuckoo buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight.

5. (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.

   to paint a portrait or a landscape

6. (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.

   I've been painting since I was a young child.

7. (transitive, GUI) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
8. (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.

   She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.

   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Disloyal? / The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.

   • 1735, Alexander Pope, “Epistle 2”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC ↗, page 62 ↗, lines 15–16:

     VVhether the Charmer ſinner it, or ſaint it, / VVhen Folly grovvs romantic, vve muſt paint it.

9. (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene i]:

     Let her paint an inch thick.

10. (transitive, military or aviation, slang) To detect (something) with radar.

    "We'll paint the target for the flyboys," the JTAC said.

• picture

• French: peindre, (Quebec) peinturer
• German: bemalen, anmalen, streichen, malen
• Italian: verniciare (window, etc), dipingere (house)
• Portuguese: pintar
• Russian: кра́сить
• Spanish: pintar

• German: streichen
• Italian: verniciare
• Portuguese: pintar
• Spanish: pintar

• German: pinseln

• German: malen
• Portuguese: pintar

• French: peindre
• German: malen
• Italian: dipingere
• Portuguese: pintar
• Russian: рисова́ть
• Spanish: pintar

paint (plural paints)

1. A paint horse.