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–adjective

1.	reproduced or represented in paint: a painted image.

2.	covered with a coating of paint: a painted chair.

3.	unreal; artificial; feigned: a painted life.

4.	exaggerated or misrepresented: a luridly painted version of what really happened.

5.	covered with makeup, esp. to excess.

6.	brightly colored or multicolored (used in combinations).

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME; see paint, -ed²

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n.

1. A liquid mixture, usually of a solid pigment in a liquid vehicle, used as a decorative or protective coating.
2. The thin dry film formed by such a mixture when applied to a surface.
3. The solid pigment before it is mixed with a vehicle.
A cosmetic, such as rouge, that is used to give color to the face; makeup.
See pinto.

v. paint·ed, paint·ing, paints

v. tr.

To make (a picture) with paints.
1. To represent in a picture with paints.
2. To depict vividly in words.
To coat or decorate with paint: paint a house.
To apply cosmetics to.
To apply medicine to; swab: paint a wound.
To shine a laser beam on, especially in order to designate a target for laser-guided munitions.

v. intr.

To practice the art of painting pictures.
To cover something with paint.
To apply cosmetics to oneself: "Let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come" (Shakespeare).
To serve as a surface to be coated with paint: These nonporous surfaces paint badly with a brush.

[From Middle English painten, to paint, from Old French peintier, from peint, past participle of peindre, from Latin pingere; see peig- in Indo-European roots.]

paint'a·bil'i·ty n., paint'a·ble adj.

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paint·ed Audio Help (pān'tĭd) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Represented in paint.
1. Covered or decorated with paint.
2. Brightly colored; gaudy.
Excessively made up with cosmetics.

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painted
adjective
1.	coated with paint; "freshly painted lawn furniture" [ant: unpainted]
2.	lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting; "in public he wore a painted smile"
3.	having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces" [ant: unpainted]
4.	having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley]

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Painted Post, NY (village, FIPS 56088) Location: 42.16290 N, 77.09187 W
Population (1990): 1950 (888 housing units)
Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 14870

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Painted

Paint\ (p[=a]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Painted; p. pr. & vb. n. Painting.] [OE. peinten, fr. F. peint, p. p. of peindre to paint, fr. L. pingere, pictum; cf. Gr. poiki`los many-colored, Skr. pi[,c] to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, Pigment, Pint.]

1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. --2 Kings ix. 30.

2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.

Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. --Shak.

Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight. --Shak.

3. To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.

Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. --Shak.

If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. --Pope.

Syn: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe.

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