paint meaning
EN
[peɪnt] [-eɪnt] 
US WPaint
- Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color, or provide texture to objects.
EN Paint 
- NounPLpaints
- 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.
- (basketball) SLA The free-throw lane, construed with the.
- The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
- NU (paintball, slang) Paintballs.
- I am running low on paint for my marker.
- (poker) SLA A face card (king, queen, or jack).
- (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
- Makeup.
- They were as plain and homely as a table-top dancer when the rains had wiped the paint and powder from her face.
- 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.
- VerbSGpaintsPRpaintingPT, PPpainted
- VT To apply paint to.
- The half-dozen pieces [ …] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
- VT To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
- VT To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
- VT To create (an image) with paints.
- to paint a portrait or a landscape
- VI To practise the art of painting pictures.
- I've been painting since I was a young child.
- VT (computing) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
- VT (figuratively) To depict or portray.
- She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.
- VI To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
- VT (military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.
- VT To apply paint to.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- He casually prescribed throat paint and some antibiotic drugs.
- The walls were never painted during my tenantry, becoming dingier and dingier as the years went by.
- I expected his new play to be as good as the last, but it was like watching paint dry.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- When will the appraiser attest the date of the painting?
- They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint.
- They defaced the garden fence with splatterings of paint.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of paint in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
- en painted
- en painting
- en painter
- en paintings
- en paintbrush
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "paint" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.