To paint : v.tr. (word from latin pinger).
The verb “paint” has several meanings:
I)
1. Cover, color with some painting.
Paint a mur with whitewash (brush), with ripolin (ripoliner), with lacquer (lacquer), with lime (lime).
Paint in Black, riding a Blue.
Painting several colors (to color, to paint).
Painting a facade new (renovate, repaint).
Have it painted apartment (region: paint).
– Quote from the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880): “He tried to paint the attic with a leftover color that the painters had left.”
Absolute: Paint with roller, spray, spray (bomber).
Decorate by a painting.
– Quote from the French writer André Malraux (1901-1976): “Why be irritated to think that the great Italians painted wedding chests? ".
The ceiling of the Opera was painted by the painter Marc Chagall (1887-1937).
2. Aged or pejorative meaning: To make up, to make up.
Painting yourself eyelids.
– Quote from the French playwright and poet Jean Racine (1639-1699): “This borrowed radiance With which she took care to paint and adorn her face”.
Painting your nails (varnishing).
II)
1. Appear in way de painting, colors.
Paint a number, an arrow on a plaque.
Absolute: Paint on PorcelainOn silkOn wood.
2. Represent, reproduce by theArticle for the painting.
Paint scenery.
– Quote from the French playwright and actor Molière (1622-1673): “Like these women who, by having themselves painted, want portraits that are not them”.
Absolute : Do for the painting.
Paint with brush, brush (brush).
Paint tooil, To thewater.
Fresco painting.
Paint from nature.
– Quote from the French orientalist writer and painter Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876): “The art of painting is only the art of expressing the invisible through the visible.”
Execute au way for the painting, colors.
Paint sets, trompe-l'œil.
Do a painting).
Paint a pinboard, a canvas.
Paint a Ingredients abstract.
III) Figurative sense:
1. Represent by discourse, inaddressing more specially withimagination (to describe, depict, show, represent.)
Paint the Company.
– Quote from the French writer La Bruyère (1645-1696): “Corneille paints men as they should be”.
– Quote from the French playwright and poet Jean Racine (1639-1699): “I painted them powerful, rich, seditious”.
– Quote from the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880): “You will paint wine, love, women […] on the condition, my good man, that you will be neither a drunkard, nor a lover, nor a husband”.
Thing subject: Quote from the French writer Stendhal (1783-1842): “These misfortunes that novels are careful not to paint, and moreover that they cannot paint”.
Reflexive pronominal verb: Quote from the French philosopher and moralist Blaise Pascal (1623-1662): “The stupid project he [Montaigne] has of painting himself! ".
2. Pronominal verb: Put on a forms sensitive ; I know show to the view (appearis reflect).
– Quote from the French writer Stendhal (1783-1842): “The poverty of this little house […] was painted in ravishing colors”.
– Quote from the French writer Pierre Loti (1850-1923): “Conternation is painted on the faces”.