painting

[ peyn-ting ]

/ ˈpeɪn tɪŋ /

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noun

a picture or design executed in paints.

the act, art, or work of a person who paints.

the works of art painted in a particular manner, place, or period: a book on Flemish painting.

an instance of covering a surface with paint.

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Origin of painting

Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; see origin at paint, -ing¹

Words nearby painting

painted woman, painter, painterly, painter's colic, paint horse, painting, paint oneself into a corner, paint pot, paint roller, paint stripper, paint the town red

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How to use painting in a sentence

Inside, the houses were richly decorated with paintings, as well as sculptures of animals that burst out of the walls.
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There’s nothing unusual about Jean Jensen selling up to 30 pastel, watercolor or oil paintings a year.
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Jim specialized in painting houses, and house painting was in my DNA.
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When I paint just for paintings, I don’t have to worry about polys.
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On the other hand, here is an example of a very high-poly painting using Google Tilt Brush.
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There are limits to the painting of banditry and extortion as the legitimate raising of taxes.
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In “Sleigh Ride,” the narrator is painting a scene so perfect that it could be featured on an iconic Currier and Ives print.
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Was it your wife Helena in the Keane painting you commissioned?
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In one painting, framed as a split-panel comic between the two, Ramone simply asks Vicious, “Did you kill her?”
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It offers keen insights into Hitch's craft while painting an intimate and unsentimental picture of the man behind the camera.
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She did her work at a most interesting period in Dutch painting.
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This led to her painting portraits of various members of the royal family while she was still a pupil of De Zichys.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
In 1884 she once more yielded to the attraction that Paris had for her, and there made a great advance in her painting.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
A girl of forty-two weeks showed the same excitement at the sight of a life-size painting of a cat as at that of a real cat.
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The prophets had long been painting the visionary dawn with pigments of that glorious sunset.
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British Dictionary definitions for painting

painting

/ (ˈpeɪntɪŋ) /

noun

the art or process of applying paints to a surface such as canvas, to make a picture or other artistic composition

a composition or picture made in this way

the act of applying paint to a surface with a brush

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