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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
acrylic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
paint
▪ Grasses are applied in fine, light lines using a fine brush loaded with acrylic paint.
▪ She was naked except for a tampax and a lot of acrylic paint.
paints
▪ Over recent years, acrylic paints and synthetic brushes have been developed.
▪ Many techniques are available with acrylic paints, so there is not one type of brush suitable for all acrylic techniques.
▪ What kind of brush is required by the artist working with acrylic paints?
▪ Selection of liquid acrylic paints of various viscosities.
▪ Most of these are water-based acrylic paints, are quick drying and have a low odour.
▪ All the brushes mentioned have been recommended by the manufacturers as appropriate for use with acrylic paints.
▪ For thick, impasto techniques it is preferable to use traditional acrylic paints.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Grounds include traditional white lead primer, alkyd primer, acrylic primer, oil emulsion grounds and gesso.
▪ However, other supports such as acrylic primed canvas or board are also perfectly suitable.
▪ Many techniques are available with acrylic paints, so there is not one type of brush suitable for all acrylic techniques.
▪ Most of these are water-based acrylic paints, are quick drying and have a low odour.
▪ Solid acrylic cylinders are $ 30 for a set of three; 2-inch diameter, 2, 3 and 6 inches long.
▪ Some acrylic easels are rigid with prongs or lips to hold the object.
▪ They represent a wide range of water-based media, from gouache and acrylic to transparent watercolors.
▪ You know like the acrylic windows.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acrylic

Acrylic \A*cryl"ic\, a.

  1. (Chem.) Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid. The characteristic residue in an acrylic compound is the carbonyl group attached directly to an ethylenic carbon.

  2. same as acrylic resin.

  3. same as acrylic fiber.

  4. a paint in which the pigment is suspended in a solution of an acrylic resin, which dries to a hard film on exposure to air.

  5. a painting made using an acrylic paint.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
acrylic

1855, "of or containing acryl," name of a radical from acrolein (1843), the name of a liquid in onions and garlic that makes eyes tear, from Latin acer "sharp" (see acrid) + olere "to smell" (see odor) + -in (see -ine (2)). With adjectival suffix + -ic. Modern senses often short for acrylic fiber, acrylic resin, etc.

Wiktionary
acrylic

a. 1 (context organic chemistry English) Derived from acrylic acid or acrylonitrile. 2 Containing an acrylic resin. n. 1 (context organic chemistry English) An acrylic resin. 2 A paint containing an acrylic resin. 3 a painting executed using such a paint. 4 A thick sheet of plastic. 5 A liquid coating system based on an acrylic resin

WordNet
acrylic
  1. n. polymerized from acrylonitrile [syn: acrylic fiber]

  2. a glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives [syn: acrylic resin, acrylate resin]

  3. used especially by artists [syn: acrylic paint]

  4. a synthetic fabric

Wikipedia
Acrylic

Acrylic may refer to: plastic

Usage examples of "acrylic".

Think of the trouble American Cyanamid had, trying to find a trademark for their acrylic fiber.

Lying prone in the formfitting body pan of Deep Flight IV, his head cradled in the acrylic nose cone, Dr.

Every inch of walls and floor is painted with nonslip gray acrylic that is nonabsorbent and can withstand scrubbing and bleach.

Here there were pastel wall hangings and soft carpets of nonstatic acrylics.

Purplestar sweaters, antique pendants, beaded chokers, organic nuts, horoscopes, sciencefiction movies, fourdollar transparent soap, big English cars, Mexican villas, ecology, pink rolling paper, brownies, seaweed with my pork chops, soy noodles, dacron, rayon, orlon acrylic, Fortrel polyester, Lycra spandex, leather, vinyl, suede, velvet, velours, canvas.

With a sigh I dug out of the mess an unused plastic rubbish bag and, instead of its normal light load of paint-cleaning tissues, filled it with the debris of ruined acrylics and everything small but broken.

Masonite did not deteriorate over time the way canvas did, and acrylics retained their true colors far better than oil-based paints.

He started feeling sick again, and he was tempted to run back inside the house and call the police or at least grab his acrylics, just in case Smoke figured he'd been tricked.

Her nails, I noticed, were very long and pink, thick enough to suggest acrylics or poorly done silk overlays.

Orange acrylic fiber connected with hijackers or not, that was what I thought, and I told him so.

Somewhere was a source of red and orange and green acrylic paint, and the Otterfolk had access.

Adam used acrylic paint, sienna brown with streaks of black for the tree bark.

Asprey's studio: an artist's easel on which was a blank canvas, a stool with a palette, a wooden box crammed with a jumble of oil and acrylic paint tubes.

Nita sniffed, and from her art classes identified the sweetish smell of water-based acrylic paint.

Harris and the graduating president of the chess club had been doing with two tubes of acrylic paint and a number three sable in the art supply closet on the last day of school.