Painting
['peɪntɪŋ] or ['pentɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the occupation of a house painter; 'house painting was the only craft he knew'.
(noun.) the act of applying paint to a surface; 'you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush'.
(noun.) creating a picture with paints; 'he studied painting and sculpture for many years'.
(noun.) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; 'a small painting by Picasso'; 'he bought the painting as an investment'; 'his pictures hang in the Louvre'.
Typist: Sonia--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paint
(n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
(n.) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.
(n.) Color laid on; paint.
(n.) A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Picture (in colors).
Editor: Miriam
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Typed by Jewel
Examples
- Painting, chopping wood, hammering, plowing, washing, scrubbing, sewing, are all forms of work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Let us assume that we have a painting or a drawing in colors from which it is desired to produce a set of printing plates to produce that drawing in facsimile. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He deliberately scrutinised each sketch and painting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But who would have imagined, said he, that Franklin was capable of such a performance; such painting, such force, such fire! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Would it comfort, or would it wound you to have a similar painting? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But if you have a genius for painting, would it not be right to take that as a guide? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I promised Traddles that he should hear Dora sing, and see some of her flower-painting. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And you want to express too much with your painting. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here's what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what poetry only can attempt to describe! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Miss Mills was copying music (I recollect, it was a new song, called 'Affection's Dirge'), and Dora was painting flowers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Exact copies of an original, whether of a painting or a photograph, are now produced on paper with all the original shades and colours. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There is a smear on the painting of your door, here. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Your painting and Plastik are poor stuff after all. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In due time, his course brought him to the door, and put him face to face with the decorative painting that you know of. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- China continued to produce beautiful paintings long after the fall of the Han rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Before its introduction it was not possible to reproduce cheaply in printers’ ink shaded pictures like photographs, brush drawings, paintings, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Its grandeur-- its treasure of paintings, its magnificent halls were objects soothing and even exhilarating. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- From Egyptian tomb-paintings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And then she shewed him how, by executing various designs and paintings, she earned a pittance for her support. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There are comparatively few paintings that I can really enjoy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That is one of my paintings over the chimney-piece. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Early Egyptian paintings show this going on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is one of the largest paintings in Europe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Genoa and her rival, Venice, were the great trading seaports of this time; their noble palaces, their lordly paintings, still win our admiration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- During a two years' sojourn in Italy he had collected many good paintings and tasteful rarities, with which his residence was now adorned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Two or three exquisite paintings of children, in various attitudes, embellished the wall. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- For copying paintings on glass, the solution should be applied on leather, and in this case it is more readily acted on than when paper is used. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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