Definitions for painting

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painting paint·ing

Spelling: [peyn-ting]

IPA: /ˈpeɪn tɪŋ/

Painting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in painting (agiinnpt).

Definitions for painting

noun

1. a picture or design executed in paints.
2. the act, art, or work of a person who paints.
3. the works of art painted in a particular manner, place, or period:
4. an instance of covering a surface with paint.
5. a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
6. an application of this.
7. the dried surface pigment:
8. the solid coloring matter alone; pigment.
9. facial cosmetics, especially lipstick, rouge, etc., designed to heighten natural color.
10. Chiefly Western U.S. a pied, calico, or spotted horse or pony; pinto.

Idioms

1. paint the town red, Informal. to celebrate boisterously, especially by making a round of stops at bars and nightclubs. Also, paint the town.

verb (used with object)

1. to coat, cover, or decorate (something) with paint:
2. to produce (a picture, design, etc.) in paint:
3. to represent in paint, as in oils, tempera, or watercolor:
4. to depict as if by painting; describe vividly in words:
5. to color by or as if by painting:
6. to apply a substance to, as a liquid medicine or a cosmetic:

verb (used without object)

1. to coat or cover anything with paint.
2. to engage in painting as an art:
3. to put on or use facial cosmetics.

Origin of painting

Middle English word dating back to 1175-1225; See origin at paint, -ing¹

Examples for painting

I am not painting my early life as any darker than most lives.

Why all the painting that I have seen is but child's play beside this.

In one painting, framed as a split-panel comic between the two, Ramone simply asks Vicious, “Did you kill her?”

Two men look at it—the one with an expert knowledge of painting, the other with none.

In painting, we believe we possess a school second to none of modern art.

Cimabue, the reviver of painting, received instruction from the Greeks.

It offers keen insights into Hitch's craft while painting an intimate and unsentimental picture of the man behind the camera.

In “Sleigh Ride,” the narrator is painting a scene so perfect that it could be featured on an iconic Currier and Ives print.

At times, it reads as if he is describing the backdrop of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.

There are limits to the painting of banditry and extortion as the legitimate raising of taxes.