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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
painter
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
abstract
▪ But the abstract painters don't want to produce decoration, they want to produce High Art.
▪ Nadler, a serious abstract painter, displays a small gem at Davis Dominguez.
▪ The fourth dimension also played a part in uniting a number of abstract painters and sculptors in the inter-war period.
▪ Sean Scully is one senior abstract painter whose work is both personal and ostentatious.
amateur
▪ The series is geared towards the needs of amateur painters starting out on the road to success.
▪ Indeed, he was both an amateur painter and a musician in a rock band that met at weekends.
▪ He is also known as an amateur painter.
contemporary
▪ The market in modern art was not yet developed and contemporary painters rarely had a one-man show.
▪ Over at Etherton Gallery, three contemporary painters provide three widely divergent interpretations.
famous
▪ Yet Lowry was a popular hero who, when he died in 1977, was the most famous painter in Britain.
▪ He was a famous painter once more now, not simply a local eccentric to encounter on the beach.
▪ The most famous painters, musicians and writers chose to live and work in Venice above all other cities.
▪ In the past there have been roads named after Shakespeare characters, famous painters and even Nottingham Forest footballers!
great
▪ Would they stop a great painter painting just because his eyes were going and his brushwork wasn't as good?
▪ The great nature painter John James Audubon agreed.
▪ She would be a great actress or a great painter, or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister.
▪ Bloomsbury said that Cezanne is a great painter.
▪ In this way modern analytical techniques are providing the basis for greater appreciation of some of the world's greatest painters.
▪ The progress has been as dynamic, and certainly more precise, than anything produced by those great painters.
▪ She was not destined to be a great painter but she had the confidence and luck to be a successful one.
▪ The city was and is home to many great painters, sculptors, poets and composers ... a city of romance.
other
▪ We've just had a week painting with a group of other painters.
▪ And no other painter was such an important influence in the formation of Cubism.
▪ It was terribly interesting to see other painters in action - painters whose work we're familiar with.
young
▪ A lot of the young painters here started painting very big works because that was the fashion coming from the States.
▪ It is without my knowledge that certain young painters have made use of my latest researches.
▪ This is a problem a lot of young portrait painters have.
■ NOUN
landscape
▪ He's a landscape painter, he's a good influence.
▪ I have never really regarded myself as a landscape painter.
▪ She shooed it off, vindictively giving it an urge to become a great landscape painter in place of its rope obsession.
portrait
▪ The problem for a portrait painter is the incisiveness of your observation - how deeply you choose to look into your subject.
▪ She was actually foreshortening, as skilled portrait painters do.
▪ When this ended, he set himself up first as a portrait painter.
▪ No less distinguished was his achievement as a portrait painter, his approach extending from the satirical to the deeply affectionate.
▪ This is a problem a lot of young portrait painters have.
■ VERB
become
▪ As well as looking after your daughters and your home, she has also become a painter.
▪ How can I ever become a good painter when I know so little geometry and mathematics?
▪ Mary became a painter, Grace a mathematician.
▪ In fact, I only became a half decent painter after I got into art college.
▪ She became a painter and decorator on a government scheme for a year.
▪ She shooed it off, vindictively giving it an urge to become a great landscape painter in place of its rope obsession.
▪ Years later when I became a painter, many of my subjects were Biblical.
work
▪ In the evenings after the two painters had been working, they would often stroll towards the café.
▪ Other painters have worked collaboratively as well.
▪ Or what if the painter works for other people in his free time in return for cash?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a house painter
▪ a landscape painter
▪ Adolf Hitler worked as a house painter in Austria before becoming involved in politics.
▪ Michelangelo, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, died in 1564.
▪ Sir Henry Raeburn, the famous Scots portrait painter
▪ The painters are upstairs painting the offices at the moment.
▪ This is by the great Spanish painter, Goya.
▪ Turner was probably the greatest landscape painter that England has ever produced.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was the chief architect in charge of the then-burgeoning rapid transit system - and it turns out he was also a painter.
▪ How dare, Lamb demanded, these mere painters inflict their visions of Juliet and Rosalind upon the public?
▪ Modigliani arrived quite sober for the occasion but when the two painters came to discuss their work the conversation became dangerously frigid.
▪ One painter says to use latex finish paint.
▪ The great nature painter John James Audubon agreed.
▪ Vincent would soon see the struggle to turn himself into what he called a Peasant painter as his prime aim.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
painter

Poonah painting \Poo"nah paint`ing\ [From Poona, in Bombay Province, India.] A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work.

Note: Hence:

Poonah brush,

paper,

painter, etc.

painter

Puma \Pu"ma\ (p[=u]"m[.a]), n. [Peruv. puma.] (Zo["o]l.) A large American carnivore ( Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.

painter

Boat \Boat\ (b[=o]t), n. [OE. boot, bat, AS. b[=a]t; akin to Icel. b[=a]tr, Sw. b[*a]t, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. Bateau.]

  1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

    Note: Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.

  2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

  3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

    Note: Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped.

    Advice boat. See under Advice.

    Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc.
    --Totten.

    Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter.

    In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.]
    --F. W. Newman.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
painter

"artist who paints pictures," early 14c., from Old French peintor, from Latin pictor "a painter," from pingere (see paint (v.)). Sense of "workman who colors surfaces with paint" is from c.1400. As a surname, Painter is attested from mid-13c. but it is difficult to say which sense is meant. Related: Painterly.

painter

mid-14c., "rope or chain that holds an anchor to a ship's side," from Old French peintor, ultimately from Latin pendere "to weigh" (see pendant).

Wiktionary
painter

Etymology 1 n. 1 An artist who paints pictures. 2 A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means. 3 (label en US) A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther". Etymology 2

n. 1 (label en obsolete) A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use. (14th-17th c.) 2 (label en nautical) A rope connected to the bow of a boat, used to attach it to e.g. a jetty or another boat. (from 17th c.)

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WordNet
painter

  1. n. an artist who paints

  2. a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint

  3. a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)

  4. large American feline resembling a lion [syn: cougar, puma, catamount, mountain lion, panther, Felis concolor]

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Gazetteer
Painter, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 246
Housing Units (2000): 117
Land area (2000): 0.633974 sq. miles (1.641985 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.633974 sq. miles (1.641985 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60296
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.585632 N, 75.783445 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 23420
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Painter (band)

Painter was a Canadian rock band formed in 1970 in Calgary.

Painter (rope)

A painter is a rope that is attached to the bow of a dinghy, or other small boat, and used for tying up or towing.

Ideally, the length of the painter should be no longer than the length of the boat, especially on small craft, to prevent fouling the propeller of an outboard engine.

Painter (disambiguation)

A painter is a creative artist in the medium of painting.

Painter may also refer to:

  • House painter, a tradesman responsible for the painting of buildings
  • Painter (surname)
  • Painter (band), a Canadian rock band
  • The Painter, a 1981 album by KC and the Sunshine Band
  • Painter (rope), a rope that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up or for towing
  • Painter, Virginia
  • Corel Painter
  • Cougar or painter
Painter (comics)

Wilhelm van Vile, better known as The Painter, is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in Marvel Comics-published comics. The character was created by plotter Stan Lee, writer Robert Bernstein and artist Jack Kirby. He first appeared in Strange Tales #108 (1963).

Painter (surname)

Painter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Curtis Painter (born 1985), American footballer
  • David Painter, 16th-century Scottish courtier
  • Gary Painter (born 1947), Texas sheriff
  • George Painter (1914–2005), British author and biographer of Marcel Proust
  • Ian Painter (born 1964), English footballer
  • Joe Painter (born 1965), British geographer & academic
  • John Painter (cricketer) (1856–1900), English cricketer
  • John Painter (supercentenarian) (1888–2001), American soldier & long survivor
  • John Mark Painter (born 1967), American musician
  • Kevin Painter (born 1967), British darts player
  • Kristin Painter, American novelist
  • Lance Painter (born 1967), British baseball coach
  • Marcos Painter (born 1986), English footballer
  • Matt Painter (born 1970), American basketball coach
  • Patrick Paniter or Painter (born c.1470), Scottish courtier
  • Patrick Painter (born 1954) American art dealer
  • Robbie Painter (born 1971), English footballer
  • Roy Painter (born c. 1930), British politician
  • Sidney Painter (1902–1960), American medievalist
  • Theophilus Painter (1889–1969), American zoologist
  • William Hunt Painter (1835-1910), English botanist
  • William Painter (author) (c. 1540–1594), English author
  • William Painter (inventor) (1838–1906), American
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Usage examples of "painter".

To the painter I wrote that I felt that I had deserved the shameful insult he had given me by my great mistake in acceding to his request to honour him by staying in his house.

But less than three hours later, Tom was back at the Rose and Crown with information that an Italian painter by the name of Giorgio Donatelli could be found at Number Thirty-two, Almonry Terrace, Westminster.

Il Frate, as a painter, is attributed great softness and harmony, and even majesty, though, like Fra Angelico, he was often deficient in strength.

In the days of Fra Angelico and the Van Eycks, art was the means by which painters brought before men sacred subjects, to whose design painters looked with more or less of conviction and feeling.

The atelier of the American painter was furnished with a harmonious sumptuousness which real artists know how to gather around them.

Shah Tahmasp, who was himself a master miniaturist and spent his youth in his own workshop, closed down his magnificent atelier as his death approached, chased his divinely inspired painters from Tabriz, destroyed the books he had produced and suffered interminable crises of regret.

Simon Painter sat on one side of the azoic Raven on the folding seats in the rear.

A painter would have stopped to admire the night effects of this scene, but Marie, not wishing to enter into conversation with Barbette, who sat up in bed and began to show signs of amazement at recognizing her, left the hovel to escape its fetid air and the questions of its mistress.

He considers himself a follower of yours, copies before your Bathers every day, gives lectures on it to new painters.

Annabel favored lighter canvases with frolicsome color and romantic subject matter, like the Impressionists or the eighteenth-century French painters Boucher, Fragonard, and Watteau.

Just think, Caddie, if you had a painter begging you to let him do your portrait.

He ordered building materials and sent to Baja California for craftsmen smiths, ceramists, woodcarvers, painters who in no time at all added a second floor, long arched corridors, tile floors, a balcony in the dining room, a bandstand in the patio, the better to enjoy the musicians, small Moorish fountains, wrought-iron railings, carved wood doors, and windows with painted panes.

The whole formed a living picture to which the most skilful painter could not have rendered full justice.

He enquired from the painter whether the original could be brought to Versailles, and the artist, not supposing there would be any difficulty, promised to attend to it.

She set to work cleaning, washing and clothing the young beauty, and two or three days after they went to Versailles with the painter to see what could be done.