paint

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All I could do was paint a "go F&%$ yourself" smile on my face and wait for him to leave.

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Quick take

a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating; "artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of paint gathered in one view.

noun

(basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court; "he hit a jump shot from the top of the key"; "he dominates play in the paint"

noun

makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for paint.

noun

makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks

verb

make a painting; "he painted all day in the garden"; "He painted a painting of the garden"

verb

apply paint to; coat with paint; "We painted the rooms yellow"

verb

make a painting of; "He painted his mistress many times"

verb

apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil

Example sentences

All I could do was paint a "go F&%$ yourself" smile on my face and wait for him to leave.

If you were standing in the room that Vermeer painted, you would see that wall as a pretty even shade of off-white.

Eventually the scientists find that the paint can be fixed by mixing in some kind of protein or other.

But even if that's the case, AirBnB has dropped the ball in pissing her off so much that she has to continue to make an effort to paint AirBnB in a negative light.

"I'm not defending the NSL, but I am opposed to misinformation, as well as the frequent attempts to paint the USA as being just as bad as China.

Yet these paintings don't appear to suffer from such distortion, the shape and color reproduction is as exact as a tracing or photograph.

It makes people who support sentence reform seem dishonest by cherry-picking the edge cases, instead of trying to paint an accurate picture with statistics.

I guess a good real world comparison is renting vs. owning, if you own your home you can paint the walls, install a new floor or turn an entire wall into a television.

The knee-jerk urge to paint big banks as shady criminals will only intensify, not mitigate, the regulatory pressure.

Out of all the questions which were answered CNN focused on this one because it most easily supports the "egotistical" narrative they are attempting to paint him with.

It's ludicrous that it's even necessary to paint the archetypical "Google chef" as someone who daringly sacrifices for their scrappy company for them to be worthy of windfall profits.

It only uses rAF to batch rendering, so multiple repaints are throttled to a minimum of 16ms ===The on-screen issue is interesting; I need to think about it more to see if we can actually leverage it in production apps.

Can I just for a moment question their PR strategy here?Them saying they have found something big leads to speculation, speculation that might paint the image of an discovery much bigger than what was actually discovered.

The overwhelming desire to paint Jonathan Mayer as David to the digital advertising industry's Goliath completely distorts the reality of the negotiations and misrepresents how decisions about both code and policy are made at Mozilla.