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say it: paynt
paint is a verb and noun meaning "make a painting". It carries 7 recorded senses.
art
apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil
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”
(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”
basketball
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for paint come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.