English words for 'polychrome painting'
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- (painting) A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.
- a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color
- (art) A woodcut technique in which several woodcut blocks are used to print different shades of a color, or a woodcut print made by this technique.
- (painting) An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of strong contrasts between light and dark in order to create the illusion of volume.
- (photography) A photographic technique in which one side of the subject, for example a face, is well lit and the other is in shadow.
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- creating a picture with paints
- graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
- the occupation of a house painter
- the act of applying paint to a surface
- (countable) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.
- (uncountable) The action of applying paint to a surface.
- (uncountable) The same activity as an art form.
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- make a painting of
- make a painting
- (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.
- apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil
- apply paint to; coat with paint
- (transitive, slang) To defecate or soil with faeces during anal sex.
- (transitive, military or aviation, slang) To detect (something) with radar.
- (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
- (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
- (transitive) To apply paint to.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
- (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.
- (transitive, medicine) To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
- (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
noun
- 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
- (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
- makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
- (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
- (uncountable, slang) Tattoo work.
- A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
- (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.
- (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
- (uncountable) Makeup.
- The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
- (poker, slang) Synonym of face card (king, queen, or jack).
- (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
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- Depicted in paint.
- Coated with paint.
- coated with paint
- Wearing makeup.
- Colorful, as if painted.
- (figurative) Superficial or cosmetic, without underlying depth of feeling.
- having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
- having makeup applied
- lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting
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- A painting.
- (programming) A format string in the COBOL programming language.
- (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
- An attractive sight.
- A figure; a model.
- A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
- A photograph.
- (MLE) A sample of an illegal drug.
- An image; a representation as in the imagination.
- A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
- Situation.
- The art of painting; representation by painting.
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- a graphic or vivid verbal description
- graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
- a typical example of some state or quality
- a situation treated as an observable object
- a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
- a clear and telling mental image
- the visible part of a television transmission
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- (art) The use of many small areas of color to construct an image.
- a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France
- a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
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- a painting produced with watercolors
- (countable) A painting made by using such pigment.
- the art or technique of painting with watercolors
- (uncountable) This kind of painting as a genre.
- (countable) A water-soluble pigment or paint.
- a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists
- water-soluble pigment
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- A paint.
- (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- (linguistics) The quality of a particular vowel sound.
- (professional wrestling slang) To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usally prefaced with "get".
- (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
- A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- (music) Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
- (figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- (in the plural) Gang insignia.
- (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
- (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
- (in the plural) A standard or banner.
- These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
- An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- (mining) Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
- (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
- (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- interest and variety and intensity
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the timbre of a musical sound
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- (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
- (transitive) To give something color.
- (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
- (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
- (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- To affect without completely changing.
- (linguistics, usually of a phoneme) To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
- decorate with colors
- change color, often in an undesired manner
- add color to
- affect as in thought or feeling
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- modify or bias
noun
- An artist's palette.
- A flat surface with a handle on one side, used by a mason or plasterer; a hawk or mortarboard.
- A board that is held in the hand or attached by a strap, used like a paddle when bodysurfing.
- (leatherworking) A hand tool used to apply pressure to skins in order to finish them.
- A device for securing, supporting, or guiding the hand; a handrest or splint.
- A tablet-sized surface for writing or displaying text and images.
- A long narrow board with a catch for holding a dart, spear, or harpoon used as a throwing device.
- A small hand-painted wooden sign, especially one indicating the direction (and possibly distance) to a particular location.
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- A painting executed using such a paint.
- A thick sheet of plastic.
- (organic chemistry) An acrylic resin.
- A liquid coating system based on an acrylic resin.
- (painting) A paint containing an acrylic resin.
- a glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives
- used especially by artists
- polymerized from acrylonitrile
- a synthetic fabric made from polyacrylonitrile
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- (painting) A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
- The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
- (historical) A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
- The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
- (figurative, uncommon) Any set or group of limited choices, options, or tasks from all ones that are currently available.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
- A set of makeup including a variety of colors, often packaged together in a tray.
- A plate against which a person presses their chest to give force to a hand-operated drill.
- A set of colours available to be used (or mixed).
- board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
- one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor
- the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
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- An artist who paints pictures.
- an artist who paints
- (nautical) A rope that is attached to the bow of a dinghy, or other small boat, and used for tying up or towing.
- (Southern US) A mountain lion.
- A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
- a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
- large American feline resembling a lion
- a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)
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- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- marked by errorless familiarity
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- sexually unresponsive
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- without compunction or human feeling
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
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- (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
- (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
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- (art) A drawing made with any of those colors.
- Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
- Woad.
- A crayon made from such a paste.
- A traditional dish in various Latin American countries and in Indonesia, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.
- A Filipino stew made with vegetables, sausages, and chicken or other meat in a creamy sauce.
- A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
- any of various pale or light colors
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- (paintings) A selected portion of a painting.
- (countable) A part small enough to escape casual notice.
- (military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
- A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- (uncountable) The small parts that can escape casual notice.
- (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
- (uncountable) A profusion of details.
- extended treatment of particulars
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
- a crew of workers selected for a particular task
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a temporary military unit
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- (art) Semi-transparent colours painted thinly over others to modify the effect.
- (architecture) All the windows of a building.
- The art of covering with a vitreous substance.
- The material used in such act or process; glaze.
- (gerund) The act or process of glazing or an instance thereof.
- The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material.
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- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
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- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
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- A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
- A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.
- Pixelization. (a method of censorship)
- (phytopathology) Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves.
- (figurative) Any composite structure made from diverse elements.
- (genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
- viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves
- art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
- transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube
- a pattern resembling a mosaic
- arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
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- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- (chiefly photography) A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
- an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
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- (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.
- A glue-based paint.
- (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
- paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
- any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
- a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- an angry and disagreeable mood
verb
- To intoxicate.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- To paint using distemper.
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
- paint with distemper
noun
- (countable) A painting done in this medium.
- (uncountable) A paint in which the pigments are suspended in a water-soluble emulsion, such as of egg yolk or gelatine, which hardens and becomes insoluble on exposure to air.
- (uncountable) The artistic technique of painting in this medium.
- pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk
noun
- the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer
- art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer
- An art technique in which paper cutouts (either from magazines etc or specially made) are glued onto the surface of an object and sometimes painted or decorated.
- An artwork made by this technique.
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- (painting) A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.
- a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color
- (art) A woodcut technique in which several woodcut blocks are used to print different shades of a color, or a woodcut print made by this technique.
- (painting) An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of strong contrasts between light and dark in order to create the illusion of volume.
- (photography) A photographic technique in which one side of the subject, for example a face, is well lit and the other is in shadow.
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- creating a picture with paints
- graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
- the occupation of a house painter
- the act of applying paint to a surface
- (countable) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.
- (uncountable) The action of applying paint to a surface.
- (uncountable) The same activity as an art form.
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- A painting.
- (programming) A format string in the COBOL programming language.
- (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
- An attractive sight.
- A figure; a model.
- A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
- A photograph.
- (MLE) A sample of an illegal drug.
- An image; a representation as in the imagination.
- A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
- Situation.
- The art of painting; representation by painting.
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- a graphic or vivid verbal description
- graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
- a typical example of some state or quality
- a situation treated as an observable object
- a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
- a clear and telling mental image
- the visible part of a television transmission
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adj
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- (art) The use of many small areas of color to construct an image.
- a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France
- a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
noun
- A paint.
- (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- (linguistics) The quality of a particular vowel sound.
- (professional wrestling slang) To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usally prefaced with "get".
- (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
- A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- (music) Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
- (figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- (in the plural) Gang insignia.
- (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
- (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
- (in the plural) A standard or banner.
- These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
- An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- (mining) Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
- (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
- (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- interest and variety and intensity
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the timbre of a musical sound
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- (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
- (transitive) To give something color.
- (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
- (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
- (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- To affect without completely changing.
- (linguistics, usually of a phoneme) To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
- decorate with colors
- change color, often in an undesired manner
- add color to
- affect as in thought or feeling
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- modify or bias
noun
- An artist's palette.
- A flat surface with a handle on one side, used by a mason or plasterer; a hawk or mortarboard.
- A board that is held in the hand or attached by a strap, used like a paddle when bodysurfing.
- (leatherworking) A hand tool used to apply pressure to skins in order to finish them.
- A device for securing, supporting, or guiding the hand; a handrest or splint.
- A tablet-sized surface for writing or displaying text and images.
- A long narrow board with a catch for holding a dart, spear, or harpoon used as a throwing device.
- A small hand-painted wooden sign, especially one indicating the direction (and possibly distance) to a particular location.
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verb
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- a painting produced with watercolors
- (countable) A painting made by using such pigment.
- the art or technique of painting with watercolors
- (uncountable) This kind of painting as a genre.
- (countable) A water-soluble pigment or paint.
- a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists
- water-soluble pigment
adj
noun
- A painting executed using such a paint.
- A thick sheet of plastic.
- (organic chemistry) An acrylic resin.
- A liquid coating system based on an acrylic resin.
- (painting) A paint containing an acrylic resin.
- a glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives
- used especially by artists
- polymerized from acrylonitrile
- a synthetic fabric made from polyacrylonitrile
adj
noun
- (painting) A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
- The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
- (historical) A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
- The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
- (figurative, uncommon) Any set or group of limited choices, options, or tasks from all ones that are currently available.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
- A set of makeup including a variety of colors, often packaged together in a tray.
- A plate against which a person presses their chest to give force to a hand-operated drill.
- A set of colours available to be used (or mixed).
- board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
- one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor
- the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
noun
- An artist who paints pictures.
- an artist who paints
- (nautical) A rope that is attached to the bow of a dinghy, or other small boat, and used for tying up or towing.
- (Southern US) A mountain lion.
- A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
- a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
- large American feline resembling a lion
- a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)
noun
- (art) A drawing made with any of those colors.
- Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
- Woad.
- A crayon made from such a paste.
- A traditional dish in various Latin American countries and in Indonesia, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.
- A Filipino stew made with vegetables, sausages, and chicken or other meat in a creamy sauce.
- A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
- any of various pale or light colors
adj
noun
- (paintings) A selected portion of a painting.
- (countable) A part small enough to escape casual notice.
- (military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
- A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- (uncountable) The small parts that can escape casual notice.
- (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
- (uncountable) A profusion of details.
- extended treatment of particulars
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
- a crew of workers selected for a particular task
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a temporary military unit
verb
noun
- (art) Semi-transparent colours painted thinly over others to modify the effect.
- (architecture) All the windows of a building.
- The art of covering with a vitreous substance.
- The material used in such act or process; glaze.
- (gerund) The act or process of glazing or an instance thereof.
- The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material.
verb
noun
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
verb
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
- A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.
- Pixelization. (a method of censorship)
- (phytopathology) Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves.
- (figurative) Any composite structure made from diverse elements.
- (genetics) An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
- viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves
- art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
- transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube
- a pattern resembling a mosaic
- arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
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verb
noun
- (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.
- A glue-based paint.
- (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
- paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
- any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
- a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- an angry and disagreeable mood
verb
- To intoxicate.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- To paint using distemper.
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
- paint with distemper
noun
- (countable) A painting done in this medium.
- (uncountable) A paint in which the pigments are suspended in a water-soluble emulsion, such as of egg yolk or gelatine, which hardens and becomes insoluble on exposure to air.
- (uncountable) The artistic technique of painting in this medium.
- pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk
noun
- the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer
- art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer
- An art technique in which paper cutouts (either from magazines etc or specially made) are glued onto the surface of an object and sometimes painted or decorated.
- An artwork made by this technique.
verb
verb
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noun
verb
- make a painting of
- make a painting
- (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.
- apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil
- apply paint to; coat with paint
- (transitive, slang) To defecate or soil with faeces during anal sex.
- (transitive, military or aviation, slang) To detect (something) with radar.
- (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
- (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
- (transitive) To apply paint to.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
- (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.
- (transitive, medicine) To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
- (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
noun
- 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
- (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
- makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
- (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
- (uncountable, slang) Tattoo work.
- A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
- (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.
- (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
- (uncountable) Makeup.
- The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
- (poker, slang) Synonym of face card (king, queen, or jack).
- (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
verb
noun
- a painting produced with watercolors
- (countable) A painting made by using such pigment.
- the art or technique of painting with watercolors
- (uncountable) This kind of painting as a genre.
- (countable) A water-soluble pigment or paint.
- a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists
- water-soluble pigment
adj
adj
- Depicted in paint.
- Coated with paint.
- coated with paint
- Wearing makeup.
- Colorful, as if painted.
- (figurative) Superficial or cosmetic, without underlying depth of feeling.
- having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
- having makeup applied
- lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting
verb
adj
adj
adj
- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- marked by errorless familiarity
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- sexually unresponsive
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- without compunction or human feeling
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
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noun
- (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
- (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
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noun
- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- (chiefly photography) A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
- an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus