Pain vs Paint - What's the difference?
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(countable, and, uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
(countable) An annoying person or thing.
(uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
Labour; effort; pains.
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
(obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
(in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
* 2007 , Jesse Guthrie, Catherine's Addiction (page 116)
(basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with ''the''.
(uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.
(poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
(computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
* 1993 , Emil Ihrig, CorelDRAW! 4 made easy
* 1998 , Kit Laybourne, The animation book: a complete guide to animated filmmaking
* 2001 , Maureen Sprankle, Problem Solving for Information Processing
To apply paint to.
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, chapter=1 To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To create (an image) with paints.
To practise the art of painting pictures.
(computing) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
* 1991 , Ernest R Tello, Object-oriented Programming for Windows
(figuratively) To depict or portray.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
(transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.
In transitive terms the difference between pain and paint
is that pain is to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve while paint is to create (an image) with paints.As a proper noun Pain
is an English surname, variant of Paine.pain
English
Noun
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain .
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- Your mother is a right pain .
- You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
- We will, by way of mulct or pain , lay it upon him. — Bacon
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.Synonyms
* (an annoying person or thing) pest * See alsoAntonyms
* pleasureHyponyms
* agony * anguish * pang * neuropathic pain * nociceptive pain * phantom pain * psychogenic painDerived terms
* pain in the arse * pain in the ass * pain in the back * pain in the bum * pain in the butt * pain in the neck * painkiller * painyVerb
(en verb)- The wound pained him.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.
References
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*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----paint
English
(wikipedia paint)Noun
- René went back into the kitchen and put a pot of coffee on, got out his paints and started on a new painting. He felt inspired.
- The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint .
- I am running low on paint for my marker.
- It combines traditional paint capabilities with photograph enhancement features.
- Computer paint software operates similarly but adds features that are delightfully familiar and useful to artists trained in traditional graphics materials.
- If using a paint package, you must specify the color before you draw the line or shape.
Derived terms
* face paint * finger paint * like watching paint dry * Paint / Paint Horse * paintbrush * paint job * war paintReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces
- not painted with the crimson spots of blood
- Cuckoo buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight.
- to paint a portrait or a landscape
- I've been painting since I was a young child.
- Sent to a minimized window when the icon's background must be filled before it is painted .
- Disloyal? / The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
- If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
- Let her paint an inch thick.
