| painting house painting | the occupation of a house painter, house painting was the only craft he knew |
| painting | the act of applying paint to a surface, you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush |
| spray painting | applying paint with a sprayer |
| finger-painting | painting by using the fingers to spread the paint |
| painting | creating a picture with paints, he studied painting and sculpture for many years |
| oil painting | the art or method of painting with oil paints |
painted turtle
painted terrapin
painted tortoise
Chrysemys picta | freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings, common in the eastern United States |
painted sandgrouse
Pterocles indicus | sandgrouse of India |
painted beauty
Vanessa virginiensis | American butterfly having dark brown wings with white and golden orange spots |
painted greenling
convict fish
convictfish
Oxylebius pictus | greenling with whitish body marked with black bands |
Abstract Expressionism
action painting | a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions, the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles |
| acrylic acrylic paint | used especially by artists |
| antifouling paint | a paint used to protect against the accumulation of barnacles etc. on underwater surfaces |
casein paint
casein | a water-base paint made with a protein precipitated from milk |
| coat of paint | a layer of paint covering something else |
finger paint
fingerpaint | paint that has the consistency of jelly |
| finger-painting | a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers |
| genre painting | a genre depicting everyday life |
house paint
housepaint | paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house |
landscape
landscape painting | a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery |
latex paint
latex
rubber-base paint | a water-base paint that has a latex binder |
makeup
make-up
war paint | cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance |
mural
wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
nude
nude painting | a painting of a naked human figure |
| oil paint | paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle |
| oil painting | a picture painted with oil paints |
paint
pigment | 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 |
painting
picture | 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 |
| paint roller | a roller that has an absorbent surface used for spreading paint |
rouge
paint blusher | makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks |
| sand painting | a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho), made of fine colored sands on a neutral background |
| spray paint | paint applied with a spray gun |
tempera
poster paint
poster color
poster colour | pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk |
| war paint | full ceremonial regalia |
| war paint | adornment consisting of paint applied to the face and body of certain Amerindians before a battle |
| water-base paint | paint in which water is used as the vehicle |
word picture
word-painting
delineation depiction picture characterization
characterisation | a graphic or vivid verbal description, too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures, the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland, the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters |
key
paint | (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 |
| Painted Desert | a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona |
strawberry blite
strawberry pigweed
Indian paint
Chenopodium capitatum | European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit, naturalized North America |
painted daisy
pyrethrum Tanacetum coccineum
Chrysanthemum coccineum | spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers, source of an insecticide, sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum |
rex begonia
king begonia
painted-leaf begonia
beefsteak geranium
Begonia rex | any of numerous usually rhizomatous hybrid begonias derived from an East Indian plant having rough-textured leaves patterned in silver and bronze and purple and red-brown with inconspicuous flowers |
hoary puccoon
Indian paint Lithospermum canescens | perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment |
painted nettle
Joseph's coat Coleus blumei
Solenostemon blumei
Solenostemon scutellarioides | perennial aromatic herb of southeastern Asia having large usually brightolored or blotched leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers, sometimes placed in genus Solenostemon |
| Indian paintbrush painted cup | any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts |
painted tongue
Salpiglossis sinuata | Chilean herb having velvety funnel-shaped yellowish or violet flowers with long tonguelike styles at the corolla throat |
poinsettia
Christmas star
Christmas flower
lobster plant
Mexican flameleaf
painted leaf Euphorbia pulcherrima | tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers |
Japanese poinsettia
mole plant paint leaf
Euphorbia heterophylla | showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru |
fire-on-the-mountain
painted leaf Mexican fire plant
Euphorbia cyathophora | poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico, often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla |
gild the lily
paint the lily | make unnecessary additions to what is already complete |