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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
paintbrush
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apply enough pressure to force surplus putty out of the rebate 8 Lightly smooth with your fingers or with an old paintbrush.
▪ Brush clean using an old paintbrush 4 Wearing rubber gloves, pour a little Ronseal Wood Hardener into the lid.
▪ Bwick uses his whole body for a paintbrush and has hair like Whoopi Goldberg.
▪ His paintbrush does not lie - this countryside is idyllic.
▪ If necessary, dust off the window and sill with a clean paintbrush.
▪ On colour monitors, the pointer can be used as a paintbrush.
▪ Unfortunately, I dropped the paintbrush, which of course went down the loo.
▪ Well, on opening the box, they certainly looked like artist's paintbrushes, finished in silver grey.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
paintbrush

paintbrush \paint"brush`\ n. A brush used to apply paint.

Wiktionary
paintbrush

n. A thin brush for applying paint.

WordNet
paintbrush

n. a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint)

Wikipedia
Paintbrush (disambiguation)

A paintbrush is a brush for applying ink or paint.

Paintbrush may also refer to:

  • Paint (software) (for some time renamed Paintbrush for Windows, also known as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint), a simple graphics program bundled with Microsoft Windows
  • Paintbrush (software), a free graphics editing application for Mac OS X.
  • PC Paintbrush, a graphics editing software created by the ZSoft Corporation
  • Paintbrush (confectionery), a type of confectionery made by Impact Creations
  • Indian Paintbrushes, the semi-parasitic Castilleja plant genus, Orobanchaceae
  • Paintbrushes, certain Haemanthus plants, Amaryllidaceae
Paintbrush (software)

Paintbrush is a raster image editor for Mac OS X. It aims to replace MacPaint, an image editor for older versions of Mac OS last released in 1988. It also is an alternative to MS Paint. It has basic raster image editing capabilities and a simple interface designed for ease of use. It exports as PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, and TIFF. The application also is often used for pixel art because of its grid option, and is not made for large scale images or GIMP or Photoshop-like editing.

Paintbrush

A paintbrush is a brush used to apply paint or sometimes ink. A paintbrush is usually made by clamping the bristles to a handle with a ferrule.

Usage examples of "paintbrush".

The hills were carpeted with bluebonnets and Indian paintbrushes, while the more rocky crags were cloaked in dark green juniper.

Fields of bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush dotted the grass alongside the highway.

She watched Eros pick up the bowl and raise the paintbrush to each nipple, leaving red dye in its place.

Over the surface of Hova, the blackening moved like some colossal paintbrush.

Making reassuring noises in her throat, Rosie locked her eyeball onto a rolling bovine pupil and, her workbag with its sketchpads, paints and paintbrushes banging clumsily against her thigh, climbed carefully down off the stile onto the grass.

Rio Grande, where the wind rolled grandly through the pines, hawks spun lazy high circles on the afternoon thermals, and the brilliant clear light blazed on white starflowers and Indian paintbrush.

Indian paintbrush, bright yellow cinquefoil, blue lupine and pink fireweed.

Krysty identified mimulus and collinsia, with the delicate orange of columbine and the flaming daggers of the Indian paintbrush.

In garden beds densely planted with purple-flowering broom bush, red and yellow desert paintbrush, and white-furred old man cactus, large, variegated desert agaves grew over six feet high and twice as wide, their curving spiked leaves striped in blue and yellow.

The place was a maze, a rat warren of halfbuilt stores and shops, discarded lengths of pipe, piles of cinderblock and boards, shacks and rusted Quonset huts, all overgrown with scrubby junipers and laurels and witch-grass and blue spruce, blackberry and blackthorn, devil's paintbrush and denuded goldenrod.

She slipped her head around the corner, wincing at a blast of wind that ruffled her fur and charged her nose with smells of brome grass and Indian paintbrush and old booze and older brick.

She was on her hands and knees on the temple floor with a soft-bristled paintbrush, gently clearing away dust and tiny bits of rubble from a burial garment.

In the open spaces grew bright green manzanita and what was left of the wild irises and white and purple lupine and bugle flowers and desert paintbrush.

After several minutes of looking, Talon found the phone cord in the wall and trailed it to the old-fashioned dial phone, which was hiding in a kitchen drawer that also contained a wide assortment of dry paintbrushes and tubes of acrylics.

I have seen Harrison called from his bunk to put properly away a misplaced paintbrush, and the two watches below haled from their tired sleep to accompany him and see him do it.