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# paint

«paint» in Mova's school dictionary: **a coloured liquid you put on things to colour them or…** — 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

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#m1)

2) To paint is to put paint on something, like a wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#m2)

3) To paint is also to make a picture with paint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#m3)

4) «Paints» are a set of colours for art. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#x1)
- She paints 3 pictures a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#x2)
- He needs 4 cans of paint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#x3)
- How long will it take to paint 12 fences? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#x4)
- Mix blue and yellow paint to make green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#x5)
- Careful, wet paint! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#x6)
- We painted a picture of the sea in art class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#x7)
- My box of paints has twelve colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#x8)
- Oh, if he could only draw and paint! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/13/)
- [Mixing many paint colours together makes brown or grey, because each paint soaks up different parts of the light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/6/)
- [Oil paint is pigment mixed with oil, often linseed oil; it dries slowly, so painters could blend smoothly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/8/)
- [A mural is a big planned painting on a wall; without permission painting on walls is damage, even at home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/10/)
- [Maria Prymachenko was a Ukrainian folk artist from the village of Bolotnia who painted bright, imaginary animals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «paint» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paint/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.