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

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paintbrush/#x1)
- Use a thin paintbrush for the eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paintbrush/#x2)
- Dad painted the fence with a big paintbrush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paintbrush/#x3)
- My paintbrush has soft bristles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paintbrush/#x4)
- Put the paintbrushes in the jar to dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paintbrush/#x5)
- Don't leave your paintbrush standing in the water pot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paintbrush/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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