Paints

Definition

paint /peÇnt/ n ၁။ (က) [U] (သုတ္ေဆး၊ မႈတ္ေဆး စသည္) ေဆး။ White/ black/ yellow paint ❍ give the door a fresh coat of paint ❍ The paint is still wet (ie It has not dried yet). (ခ) [U] ေဆးသား။ The paint is starting to peel off. ၂။ paints [pl] ေဆးေရာင္စံု။ a box/ set of oil-paints ❍ The artist brought his paints with him. v ၁။ ေဆးသုတ္သည္။ paint a door/ wall/ house ❍ paint the ceiling white. ၂။ (က) ေဆးေရးသည္။ ပန္းခ်ီေရးသည္။ ေရးဆြဲသည္။ paint in oils/ water-colours. ❍ paint a picture/a portrait/ a landscape ❍ Someone had painted a beard on the poster of the prime minister. ❍ My sister paints well (ie is a good artist). (ခ) (စာပန္းခ်ီ) ျခယ္မႈန္း သည္။ ( fig ) In her latest novel she paints a gloomy picture of life in the next century. ၃။ ( dated or joc ) ျခယ္မႈန္းသည္။ She spends hours painting her face. ❏ paint sth out [ PHRV ] ေဆးထပ္သုတ္၍ ေဖ်ာက္သည္။ ေဆးျဖင့္ပိတ္သည္။ Some of the original figures seem to have been painted out. ❏ paint over sth [ PHRV ] ေဆးျဖင့္ဖံုးသည္။ paint over the dirty marks on the wall. ❏ paint the town red [ IDM ] (infml) ေပ်ာ္ပြဲႀကီး က်င္းပသည္။

Examples

1. She was painting her nails.
2. They followed the white arrows painted on the road.
3. Wash the walls before you start to paint.
4. I painted a view of the lake.
5. He started painting professionally at an early age.
6. The film tries to paint an accurate picture of what life is really like for these people.