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Painting vs Amate - What's the difference?

painting | amate |

As verbs the difference between painting and amate

is that painting is while amate is (label) to dishearten, dismay or amate can be (obsolete) to be a mate to; to match.

As nouns the difference between painting and amate

is that painting is (lb) an illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s) while amate is paper produced from the bark of adult ficus trees.

painting

English

(wikipedia painting)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s).
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  • *:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
  • (lb) The action of applying paint to a surface.
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  • (lb) The same activity as an art form.
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    • Synonyms

    The same activity as an art form * third art

    Derived terms

    * oil painting

    Related terms

    * painter

    Anagrams

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    amate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) papel .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
  • An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) amater, amatir.

    Verb

    (amat)
  • (label) To dishearten, dismay.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.
  • * , I.i:
    • Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate , / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?
  • * 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, xii:
    • Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.
  • * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:
    • For the last, he will be much amazed, he will be much amated .
  • * c.1815 , (John Keats), "To Chatterton":
    • Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate .

    Etymology 3

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    Verb

    (amat)
  • (obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.
    • (Spenser)

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