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Painting vs Quadrature - What's the difference?

painting | quadrature |

As nouns the difference between painting and quadrature

is that painting is (lb) an illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s) while quadrature is the process of making something square; squaring.

As a verb painting

is .

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

    Anagrams

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    quadrature

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of making something square; squaring.
  • (mathematics) The act or process of constructing a square that has the same area as a given plane figure, or of computing that area.
  • The act or process of finding the indefinite integral.
  • (astronomy) a situation in which three celestial bodies form a right-angled triangle, the observer being located at the right angle
  • When the Moon is in quadrature, it appears in the sky as a half-moon.
  • (physics) the condition in which the phase angle between two alternating quantities is 90°.
  • (arts) A painting painted on a wooden panel.
  • Derived terms

    * quadratural