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

2) Painted means made as a picture with paint: «She painted a horse». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#m2)

3) Painted describes something covered in paint: a painted fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#m3)

4) Painted can also mean false or pretended, covering up what is really there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x1)
- He painted 3 pictures yesterday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x2)
- How many walls are not painted yet? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x3)
- The painted fence is 20 meters long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x4)
- The children painted the classroom door bright red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x5)
- A painted lady is a kind of butterfly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x6)
- The big cube is painted on all sides and cut into small cubes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x7)
- Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x8)
- They went home painted victors and loud-voiced singers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/13/)
- [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/)
- [Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige to learn from them, and that influence changed his style.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/35-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit/13/)
- [Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/13/)
- [The Queen sees the half-painted roses and orders the gardeners' heads off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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