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PAINT

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paint I. substantiv

1. vopsea; zugrăveală;

to give smth. a paint a vopsi ceva;

to cover a wall with a coat of paint a zugrăvi un perete;

wet paint!, mind the paint! proaspăt vopsit!;

box of paints cutie de acuarele.

2. fard, suliman;

she is as smart / pretty as paint e frumoasă ca o cadră; e încântătoare.

paint II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a picta;

to paint a portrait in oils a picta un portret în ulei.

2. a vopsi; a zugrăvi;

to paint smth. red a vopsi ceva în roşu.

3. a înfătişa, a descrie, a zugrăvi;

to paint smth. in bright colours a descrie ceva în culori vii; a înfăţişa ceva într-o lumină favorabilă;

(prov.) the devil is not so black as he is painted dracul nu-i chiar attt de negru cum se spune.

4. a farda, a sulemeni;

to paint one's face a se farda, a-şi pune fard pe obraji.

6. (med.) a badijona; a face (cuiva) un badijonaj.

6. to paint out a acoperi (o inscripţie etc.) cu un strat de vopsea.

◊ to paint the Iily a căra apă la puţ, a face ceva inutil;

to paint the town red a face un chef de pomină.

paint II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a picta, a se ocupa cu pictura.

2. a se farda, a se sulemeni.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"'Blue paint is just the color for eyes.'

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Then have I, too, seen many pictures of life, he began; pictures not painted, but seen with the eyes.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Such was the picture, and he thrilled to the memory of it, wondering if the man could paint it who had painted the pilot-schooner on the wall.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

You won’t have to spend a lot—you can paint, declutter, make repairs, or simply have your place thoroughly cleaned.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Would it comfort, or would it wound you to have a similar painting?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“But now, you look here: you're young, you are, but you're as smart as paint. I see that when I set my eyes on you, and I'll talk to you like a man.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

That is he who paints the signs and the tokens.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Paint at all?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And he will sometimes think that she he loved was buried alive, and that will paint his dreams with horrors of what she must have suffered; and again, he will think that we may be right, and that his so beloved was, after all, an Un-Dead.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

"There is a picture you have painted that I understand," he said.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

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