I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a painting hangs in a gallery
▪ Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada.
a writing/painting/dancing etc competition
▪ Greg won the school public-speaking competition.
draw/paint a picture
▪ She drew a picture of a mushroom on the blackboard.
jam/paint/yoghurt etc pot
oil paint
oil painting
paint a picture (=create a particular idea or impression, especially one that is not accurate)
▪ The latest survey paints a grim picture.
paint job
▪ old cars that are given a quick paint job before being sold
paint stripper
painted a rosy picture
▪ Letters to relatives in Europe painted a rosy picture of life in the United States.
paint/polish/varnish your nails (=to put coloured liquid on your nails)
▪ Don't paint short nails in dark colours.
paint...portrait
▪ She’s been commissioned to paint Jackson’s portrait.
paints a gloomy picture
▪ The report paints a gloomy picture of the economy.
poster paint
spray paint
wall painting
war paint
▪ Josie’s just putting on her war paint.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acrylic
▪ 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.
▪ The flow of paint was well-controlled. Acrylic paint can sometimes clog a brush because it dries quickly.
black
▪ He was trembling and so drenched in sweat that his hair lay like streaks of black paint upon his forehead.
▪ Their faces were painted with white clay and vermillion and black paint.
▪ In the first piece these are drenched with red and black paint from the spray paint cans.
▪ The Apollo Theatre chain has requested no black paint.
▪ Ted McCarty claims it was intentional, since there seemed little point in covering an expensive maple top with black paint.
▪ If you mix white paint and black paint together, what you get is grey paint.
▪ On the black paint of the door was chalked a message: eleven o'clock.
▪ The black paint of the door was flaking, the number was askew; the windows were opaque with greyish net curtains.
blue
▪ The blue paint of the practice stalls was scarred with initials and hearts and anarchist signs among others.
▪ It was a blue face, the blue paint he splattered all over his face.
▪ It riffles the torn papers on desks daubed with red, white and blue paint.
▪ Ewes in lamb are marked with blue paint, the others are marked green.
▪ He stood in front of the door, staring at the peeling blue paint as if trying to imprint every detail on his memory.
▪ But when the Nefertari appeared after her annual refit, she was gleaming with fresh white and blue paint and varnished wood.
▪ The original red, yellow and blue paint designs reflected the owner's medicine and his vision-spirit, the deer.
brown
▪ He couldn't find any brown paint, so he mixed cocoa in with some white paint.
fresh
▪ The place smelled of fresh paint and new carpets.
▪ There, the smell of fresh paint may have lingered yet.
▪ The moment he'd entered Rose Bower the smell of fresh paint had assailed his nostrils.
▪ As the smell of fresh paint drifted through the air it became linked for us with summer and liberty.
▪ Empty building sites have been reclaimed and replanted. Fresh paint has been splashed everywhere, even in residential districts.
▪ The Oval Office still smells like fresh paint.
▪ Generous application of whitewash outside, shining fresh paint within of a drab depressing colour.
▪ A fresh lick of paint might hide many evils.
gold
▪ The lettering Café Bilbeque in gold paint was perfect.
▪ Before putting on the gold paint.
▪ My proposal was accepted, I was offered accommodation with Beatrice, bricks and, due to air restrictions, gold spray paint.
green
▪ Museum. Green paint on woodwork could be moss.
▪ Transport was an old Caribou with brown and green camouflage paint.
▪ Up the flight of steps was a very old door, covered in flaking green paint.
▪ Everything was slathered over in a depressing dark green paint.
▪ The front-door was-covered with flaky green paint and there was no keyhole.
new
▪ It was then that he noticed the new paint design resembled the bat symbol.
▪ Wallpaper also absorbs smells but, unlike the new paint, tends to retain them.
▪ The Scarecrow stuffed himself with fresh straw and Dorothy put new paint on his eyes that he might see better.
▪ He led Coffin to a bright back kitchen, furnished in the most modern style, with new canary-yellow paint.
▪ Time to stop taking it to the garage for new paint jobs, and instead get busy trading it in.
▪ Graham smiled and crossed the road to the sorting office, smelling its new coat of paint.
▪ A holy office: the casting-out of spiders and anointment with new paint.
old
▪ This 600 watt machined removed three layers of old paint from a veneered cabinet in minutes.
▪ Geranium, spider and ice plants thrive in old paint cans across from the outhouse.
▪ They are ideal for stripping off old paint from fixed joinery such as windows and skirtings.
▪ That was a lot more exposure than one would get from some old paint.
▪ I put some plants into old paint pots and hung them from the joists in the veranda roof.
▪ Over decades, car traffic on the Bay Bridge and the removal of old lead-based paint may have contaminated the Bay muds.
▪ She wedged their magazines between old paint tins and imperfectly washed milk bottles and towers of flowerpots, and crept away.
▪ These things are garage productions crafted out of regular old house paint, ordinary shop wood, strips of roughly cut tin.
red
▪ In the first piece these are drenched with red and black paint from the spray paint cans.
▪ The limbs were out of proportion, and you could read the newspaper headlines under the thin red paint.
▪ When you are issued with ammunition pouches immediately after this briefing, you will draw either red or yellow paint shells.
▪ Below left: Tsunami, with new propeller, red paint scheme and wave-effect artwork.
▪ On the way back that afternoon she bought a can of red spray paint in a car accessories shop.
▪ Wedges of flame red paint convey the brilliance of its colour, thickly tracing the veins of its wet silk petals.
▪ Then he saw them - the same tiny scraps of red paint, clustered around the handle of the bottom desk drawer.
▪ The front has traces of red paint or enamel and a raised rope pattern around the edge.
wet
▪ Stick with mastic varnish, then seal with layer of lead foil pressed into wet paint and seal again with lead.
white
▪ A special solar-reflective white paint may be applied to these panels which will increase the life-span of the surface.
▪ Shorr has splattered the work with white paint, and violently creased up the photo underneath.
▪ It was bright white, paint, lamps and dining-table; the carpet was a Berber off-white.
▪ You do not step on white paint at any time.
▪ Along her knuckles, a crust of white paint.
▪ Two days before the opening Soo stayed in the shop and busied herself with white paint and a large board.
▪ It was stencilled in white paint on the freight car fourth from the front.
▪ It riffles the torn papers on desks daubed with red, white and blue paint.
yellow
▪ Even at this distance I could see he was liberally spattered with yellow paint.
▪ The reception desk was getting a last bright coat of yellow paint.
▪ When you are issued with ammunition pouches immediately after this briefing, you will draw either red or yellow paint shells.
▪ Lest anything should not be understood, each scene was accompanied by an explanatory sentence in spidery yellow paint.
▪ The yellow splash of paint showed up hundreds of metres away in the bright sunshine.
▪ The original red, yellow and blue paint designs reflected the owner's medicine and his vision-spirit, the deer.
▪ Susan saw a smear of yellow paint across his knuckles.
■ NOUN
brush
▪ Using a paint brush paint blue eyes and whiskers on to the rabbit's face and pink ears and a nose.
▪ The rain began to fall, big sloppy drops as if some one were shaking out a paint brush.
▪ Classical painters developed the use of animal hair, and the paint brush, as we know it, was born.
▪ Then sprinkle on water and re-trowel in come loose-use an emulsion paint brush.
▪ Finally, draw a moistened paint brush along the junctions of cove and backgrounds.
▪ Whichever substance you use, put it on in as concentrated a form as you can using a large paint brush.
▪ Additionally, paint brushes can be cleaned in water.
▪ Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush.
emulsion
▪ Then sprinkle on water and re-trowel in come loose-use an emulsion paint brush.
▪ Cold water washes off fresh emulsion paint, and acetone removes cellulose.
gloss
▪ On the second flight, beige broadloom gives way to brown linoleum, bevelled mirror to beige gloss paint.
▪ Rather than buy primer and undercoat specially, you can manage with a coat or two of gloss paint alone.
house
▪ Under the new system Porter will extend its range of house paint colours from 800 to 1,200 individual tints.
▪ I believe most painters and most specialists will recommend latex house paint over oil.
▪ These things are garage productions crafted out of regular old house paint, ordinary shop wood, strips of roughly cut tin.
job
▪ In fact it was papier-mache on which some one had done a skilful paint job.
▪ After all, the building needed a paint job.
▪ Behind closed doors ... the paint job the public will never see.
▪ Time to stop taking it to the garage for new paint jobs, and instead get busy trading it in.
▪ Geneva Street was a row of identical terraced houses without even different front-door paint jobs to distinguish them.
▪ Parts of some letters had been chipped away, but a careful paint job had cured them.
▪ Awlgrip paint job, decks, upholstery and varnish work.
masonry
▪ All surfaces should be clean and dry before applying masonry paint with a brush, roller or spray.
▪ Cracks should be repaired with a filler, and porous surfaces primed with a sealant or a diluted coat of masonry paint.
▪ Water-based Stronghold smooth, and Stronghold textured masonry paint, reinforced with rock aggregate for extra durability.
▪ Jonsil Silicone Alkyd finish is a masonry paint ideal for inner city and coastal environments.
▪ Stormshield is an acrylic-based masonry paint, available in either smooth or textured finish, in a range of colours.
▪ Can not be used over masonry paint.
▪ Most manufacturers describe their exterior wall paints as masonry paint.
▪ Sandtex also now makes a glass masonry paint.
oil
▪ Are there any other art materials that can be used on top of oil paint?
▪ In places the green is so thick on the page that it develops a gloss like the dried skin of oil paint.
▪ Types of oil paint Aside from the traditional oil paint there are several variations according to the binder used when making the paint.
▪ It even tells you how to make a rosary out of rose petals and water and salt and oil paint.
▪ Types of oil paint Aside from the traditional oil paint there are several variations according to the binder used when making the paint.
▪ A variety of mediums and thinners are available for use with oil paint which facilitate further manipulation of the paint.
▪ Most artists' ranges of oil paint are priced in series.
▪ This is because oil paint shrinks as it dries.
pot
▪ I put some plants into old paint pots and hung them from the joists in the veranda roof.
scheme
▪ That's why I chose his paint scheme.
▪ Below left: Tsunami, with new propeller, red paint scheme and wave-effect artwork.
▪ He personally added his victory flags to complete the paint scheme.
▪ Good paint schemes and carefully chosen lettering should be your first option.
shop
▪ Finally it was taken into the adjoining paint shop where the painting was done by hand, a laborious task.
▪ Just two weeks ago, he voted to approve a rezoning to allow a paint shop next to a large apartment building.
▪ These three paint shops give, on 42 roads, accommodation for about 240 vehicles.
spray
▪ I holders cutters around nosed pliers a medium grade sandpaper, silver spray paint.
▪ Paint dealers could sell other types of spray paint, but only if they were not fully portable.
▪ In the first piece these are drenched with red and black paint from the spray paint cans.
▪ Manufacturers of the device said it would add about 25 cents to the cost of a can of spray paint.
▪ On the way back that afternoon she bought a can of red spray paint in a car accessories shop.
▪ It is still there but looking rusty and scribbled with spray paint.
▪ The other had contained a jemmy, cans of spray paint, wire cutters, a brace and bit, and shears.
▪ The state Air Resources Board can not ban spray paint.
war
▪ Forest Goblins wear exotic war paint, carry war axes and are often decorated with colourful feathers.
▪ When the fans meet their idols, apply their war paint and barrack the opposition.
■ VERB
apply
▪ All surfaces should be clean and dry before applying masonry paint with a brush, roller or spray.
▪ I apply the paint to the nib with a brush.
▪ However in this context the opaque crystals could be applied as a paint in areas defined by sharp lines.
▪ For an easy to apply paint finish, use microporous paint.
▪ When the fans meet their idols, apply their war paint and barrack the opposition.
▪ Patterns can be applied before paint dries: experiment with household objects such as hair comb, sponge, or edge of brush.
▪ After rubbing down, apply bitumastic paint inside and outside.
▪ Before you start mixing think about the way you intend to apply the paint.
buy
▪ Didn't anyone ever buy paint, for goodness' sake?
▪ However, it is only more economical to buy paint in tins provided that you use it quickly, within weeks.
cover
▪ The Ideal Home Decorating School gives you details of exclusive readers' courses that cover everything from paint effects to dried flowers.
▪ The children were found in the garage wearing only soiled diapers; one of them was covered with paint.
draw
▪ They loved to write and draw and paint, and they talked all day long.
▪ Colescott got started the way most artists do, as a kid who liked to draw and paint.
▪ Finally, draw a moistened paint brush along the junctions of cove and backgrounds.
▪ In this subject you are not faced with the problem of telling or showing children how to draw and paint.
▪ Art means far more than just learning to draw and paint.
▪ I want to draw and paint - sometimes.
▪ Nearly every child if properly taught loves to draw and paint.
▪ During the weekend we went out as a group to draw and paint.
flake
▪ Up the flight of steps was a very old door, covered in flaking green paint.
mix
▪ The walls are simply painted but they mix their own paint meticulously, experimenting until they get the colour just right.
▪ I even tried mixing my own paint without any success.
▪ If you mix white paint and black paint together, what you get is grey paint.
▪ If you mix grey paint and grey paint together, you can't reconstruct either the original white or the original black.
peel
▪ Mildew and mold grow on the peeling paint like gray fur.
▪ Its peeling paint and broken windows stand testimony that it went out of business because it had become too costly to maintain.
▪ An abandoned circus wagon with peeling paint is in the background, in it a hopeless dark woman imprisoned behind bars.
▪ If there is peeling paint, sand it heavily to remove as much as practicable.
▪ Water stains, peeling paint and cracked plaster show the roof leaks.
▪ She lived in a red-brick tenement in Chelsea, an old walk-up building with gloomy stairwells and peeling paint on the walls.
remove
▪ Use a shave hook to remove build up of paint from drip grooves.
▪ As you remove paint from the tin, air will replace it and initiate the drying of the remaining paint.
▪ They remove wood or paint very quickly and aggressively.
strip
▪ They are ideal for stripping off old paint from fixed joinery such as windows and skirtings.
▪ He has painstakingly stripped the cheap latex paint away from an elaborately painted mural recalling grander days.
use
▪ From the outside, it didn't look particularly inviting: it could have used some paint and polish.
▪ One painter says to use latex finish paint.
▪ The use of Colour Index Generic Names, enables us to know which pigments are being used in each paint.
▪ Richter is not a conventional painter: he is an artist who happens to use paint as a medium.
▪ Whichever substance you use, put it on in as concentrated a form as you can using a large paint brush.
▪ We must encourage them to use paint intelligently and give them suitable colours.
▪ This 7,224-ton daughter of the industrial revolution is repainted every seven years, using 40 tons of paint.
▪ There are many different types, all of which can be used with any paint of a creamy to milky consistency.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lick of paint/colour etc
▪ Julie Mills moved into her Edwardian town house in London expecting to just give it a lick of paint.
▪ Rooms have recently had a lick of paint, but nothing too drastic, making this an unbeatable central London bargain.
gaily coloured/painted/decorated etc
▪ Above me, the gaily painted signs of the taverns and food shops creaked in the wind and mocked my hunger.
▪ It took up half a block of Tollemarche Avenue and was gaily painted in red and white.
▪ The gaily painted striped poles of the merry-go-round figure in almost every work.
have your hair cut/your house painted etc
not be as black as you are painted
paint/nail varnish/stain etc remover
▪ If they are undamaged remove the polish with nail varnish remover.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a painting class
▪ I'm not very good at painting.
▪ There was an old iron bed, with rust showing through the white paint.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But she could find no paint.
▪ Curious faces turned in her direction, faces some plain some pretty but all innocent of paint and powder.
▪ I holders cutters around nosed pliers a medium grade sandpaper, silver spray paint.
▪ In recent years, lead levels have fallen as regulations have curbed lead in paint, gas and other products.
▪ Manufacturers of the device said it would add about 25 cents to the cost of a can of spray paint.
▪ The kit is sold complete apart from paint, with the machining work carried out by Rotorway.
▪ The state Air Resources Board can not ban spray paint.
▪ The use of Colour Index Generic Names, enables us to know which pigments are being used in each paint.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
brightly
▪ He said that the last of the 14 fences was too brightly painted and frightened some of the horses.
▪ Our cottage was at the end of a fisherman's row, brightly painted, and owned by Mr Jake Nisbet.
▪ Traces of yellow pigment were found on the craft, suggesting that it was brightly painted.
over
▪ They were painted over, but some one had scraped away a small area of paint, exposing the clear glass.
▪ Apply a wood preservative that can be painted over or varnished afterwards.
▪ It can be painted over, so the seams disappear.
▪ Remove the failed bud, clean off any browning on the stem and paint over with a protective fungicidal paint such as Arbrex.
▪ The fact that Mondrian had painted over the back of the canvas had helped keep the painting in particularly fine condition.
▪ Don't keep painting over chipped or worn polish.
▪ This provides a smooth surface to paint over and ensures that the colours come up clean and bright.
■ NOUN
artist
▪ Elizabeth Durack was one of the first white artists to adopt indigenous painting techniques.
▪ Yes, a painter worries about whether it will sell, but still, what an artist paints is entirely his own.
▪ Certainly every artist around London must paint them.
▪ The artist has painted her submerged, sinking through the water.
▪ The unknown artist had painted the fur with such a delicate brush you felt you might stroke it.
▪ Was this why the Cro-Magnon artists chose to paint and engrave their work in caves?
▪ Constable was a commercial artist who needed to paint visually stunning works to make enough money to support his family.
▪ He preferred not to think that everyone knew the artist had painted his best-known work from the window overlooking Dzerjhinsky Square.
colours
▪ Yet these painted colours refer only rather loosely to the ten colour-terms listed in the text.
▪ Scattered around were many houses made entirely of china and painted in the brightest colours.
▪ The most obvious addition is the carbon-fibre body-work, painted in the colours of McWilliams' race bike.
▪ Each boat had been freshly painted in bright colours for the occasion, and beside them stood their sinewy weather-beaten owners.
▪ And yet, he painted delicate water colours which sold for high prices.
▪ The site has sponsored two buses, painted in company colours, which promote Preston Guild.
▪ Completion date is planned for the autumn when it will be painted in the colours of the 1936 Burns Flea.
▪ I could only see in black and white but it was easy to paint in the colours.
face
▪ Stanley Spencer said that when you paint a face, it's like crawling across the landscape of that face.
▪ Having painted my face with white clay, they gave me a crystal and a hollow reed.
▪ I paint her face and do her hair.
▪ James Harrison signed them both in bold script right on their painted wood faces.
▪ On their heads were painted faces, each with a pair of huge, blank, staring eyes.
▪ Go stand in a field somewhere, paint each other's faces, make some puppets.
▪ I paint my face, cover myself in beads.
▪ You have to paint your face if you wear a fur.
green
▪ The walls are painted an avocado green and they are uncovered, but for a caricature sketch of Isabelle above the television set.
▪ The 517-foot-long truss is painted ballpark green and resembles a large bridge.
▪ The 707 taxied in between rows of screens painted military green, where pierced-steel planking flashed in the sun.
▪ The bathroom was painted a dark green half-way up the walls and, above that, cream.
▪ Their back door was painted a trendy sludge green and it had a large keyhole as well as a Yale lock.
▪ And when I chanced one last look round I saw they'd painted the front door green too.
hand
▪ Sometimes they painted their hands and faces too.
▪ In an age when many shops use decals or masking tape and spray paint, Olin still paints his pinstripes by hand.
▪ In the end they were made of specially manufactured rubber and painted by hand.
▪ In the latter, the distraught man is painted with his hands across his chest.
▪ For the first time since 1997 many demonstrators painted their hands white to represent innocence untainted with blood.
house
▪ Conversely, by painting your house you make the whole street look nicer and give consumption benefits to your neighbours.
▪ During the week I found work in town painting houses, laying carpets and delivering telephone books.
▪ They painted Astrid's house and made love all the time.
▪ Huong would also rent you a ski or paint your beach house.
▪ Then she began to clean and paint the house room by room.
picture
▪ These other possible connections to income taxation require separate investigation for a fuller picture to be painted.
▪ The media are merely the messengers, sometimes further sensationalizing and then passing along the false picture that has been painted.
▪ But there is, unfortunately, every reason to suppose that the general picture she paints is still accurate.
▪ Then she went into the lighthouse and secured the picture that Rhayader had painted of her.
▪ However for many who live and/or work in such communities the picture he paints is recognisable.
▪ They like the picture Piaget painted.
▪ But we do not need to solve this conundrum, for the picture painted is unreal.
▪ Each of these 3D pictures is painted over a series of triangular strips of wood, glued vertically.
portrait
▪ The youngest girl, only two, had her portrait painted by him.
▪ The portraits she paints are deeply moving and sympathetic.
▪ It could not be the portrait that he had painted.
▪ When André Warnod came home on leave he asked him politely whether he would like to have his portrait painted in uniform.
▪ The six state portraits are charmingly painted.
▪ Hellens did not like the portrait painted of him but later came to recognize its prophetic qualities.
▪ Lunia was flattered at having her portrait painted by a gifted artist, but at first she felt rather intimidated by the experience.
▪ Of the earlier Gittels we find nothing; none ever rose high enough in life to get their portrait painted.
red
▪ The Steam Tank body itself was painted in the vivid reds, blues and yellows that are typical of the Engineers Guild.
▪ The churches are painted an earthy red, with red domes and cupolas, and thick red velvet curtains decorate the insides.
▪ Window frames painted a vermilion red and decorated with colored glass were polished over and over.
▪ The walls were painted tomato red, with matching red drapes drawn against the chill dusk.
▪ Seven dried lima beans, painted bright red.
scene
▪ It's changed since Willem painted the scene in 1880, but we could still see the softly sloping dunes.
▪ The outside walls were painted as well: scenes of judgment, resurrection and martyrdom.
▪ Another time he painted a scene of the angel appearing to the shepherds to tell them of the Nativity.
▪ Intensely painted scenes depict the gruesome martyrdom of countless saints.
▪ Ma paints his scenes with a deceptive and delicate artistry.
▪ But he has a particular fondness for painting scenes remembered from his native Montana.
▪ The walls and ceiling would be painted with scenes from the Buddha's life and the presentation of gifts by benefactors.
▪ He made painted screens showing pastoral scenes with red houses.
town
▪ Tonight we're going to paint the town red. b. Tonight we're going to colour the city scarlet. 38a.
wall
▪ We want to render the wall and then paint it.
▪ These walls would be painted or wallpapered to provide the interior finishes.
▪ Cave walls painted with Aboriginal drawings, a gorge about a quarter mile deep, filled with only eucalyptus and birds.
▪ On an outside wall of this was painted a Madonna and Child.
▪ Beyond them, under cover, the walls are painted yellow and further covered by scores more artifacts and displays.
▪ The walls have been painted with a white emulsion.
▪ And that despite a really sensational wall painting by LeWitt, adding some needed color to the gray and black atrium.
■ VERB
begin
▪ He began to paint feverishly, as if he had time to make up.
▪ The final story began when Jane painted a picture.
▪ He soon began painting the structures with fluorescent colors and displaying them with backlight.
▪ When he began to paint, during the Occupation, he had looked to Matisse and Bonnard.
▪ Next day the raftbuilders began the task of painting the bamboos, and the results were dramatic.
▪ She began to paint after the birth of her first child in 1973.
▪ His was an example she would put to use when she began to paint ten years later.
draw
▪ All my children could draw and paint beautifully.
▪ I wanted to draw, paint and write.
▪ Instead of copying coats of arms, she drew and painted freehand.
▪ Thereafter, the artistic user can both draw and paint.
▪ As interested in art as Margarett was in theater, she drew and painted a little herself.
▪ A figure drawing or painting is not a portrait, so an accurate facial likeness isn't essential.
▪ She has a drawing for the painting Tabarant reproduced in his article.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lick of paint/colour etc
▪ Julie Mills moved into her Edwardian town house in London expecting to just give it a lick of paint.
▪ Rooms have recently had a lick of paint, but nothing too drastic, making this an unbeatable central London bargain.
gaily coloured/painted/decorated etc
▪ Above me, the gaily painted signs of the taverns and food shops creaked in the wind and mocked my hunger.
▪ It took up half a block of Tollemarche Avenue and was gaily painted in red and white.
▪ The gaily painted striped poles of the merry-go-round figure in almost every work.
he's/she's no oil painting
not be as black as you are painted
paint/nail varnish/stain etc remover
▪ If they are undamaged remove the polish with nail varnish remover.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the children had painted their faces.
▪ Anna usually paints in the afternoons.
▪ Don't wear that shirt when you're painting.
▪ Geraint was sitting on the beach, painting the seagulls and the fishing boats.
▪ Her lips and fingernails were painted bright red.
▪ I'm going to paint a picture of the church.
▪ I'm going to paint the bathroom tomorrow.
▪ My neighbor painted that picture.
▪ Sarah painted the table blue.
▪ The exhibition focuses on the urban pictures painted by Camille Pissarro in the last decade of his career.
▪ The pictures in Paul Gunn's exhibition were all landscapes, most beautifully painted in oils.
▪ The walls were painted tomato red, with matching red drapes.
▪ We really need to paint the bedroom.
▪ What colour did you paint the doors?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Background painted with 3030 B70G, Collector, matt emulsion from the Definitions range by Dulux, £15.49/2.5 litres.
▪ He is going to paint my portrait.
▪ It was easily sixty feet high, and painted a flat silver from its top to its base.
▪ Next day the raftbuilders began the task of painting the bamboos, and the results were dramatic.
▪ They are painted as having received too much government.
▪ Walls are painted white drifting to dove gray.
▪ When André Warnod came home on leave he asked him politely whether he would like to have his portrait painted in uniform.
▪ Yes, the recent big paintings are painted quite thinly.