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单词 painter
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painter1

noun ˈpeɪntəˈpeɪn(t)ər
  • 1An artist who paints pictures.

    画家

    a German landscape painter

    德国风景画家。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Both look at the whole working careers of the artists, and both artists are key painters in the British figurative tradition.
    • Our city is renowned for its historic interest but little is known about its wealth of artists, which includes painters, potters, photographers, weavers and printmakers.
    • Born in 1872, he aspired to become a landscape painter, but realized that a career in book illustrations would be more lucrative.
    • They are usually painted by nonacademic artists and unknown painters.
    • Even at the first glance, almost all the paintings on display betray the meditative mood of the painter when the artist was at work.
    • By the time he was 40, he stopped producing commercial art and became a painter of pictures and illustrations.
    • Showing alongside this exhibition is a collection of works by French landscape painters who inspired Monet's work, including Corot and Courbet.
    • Unfortunately however, they were the only landscapes that painters and illustrators were in the habit of imagining.
    • The two of them spent their lives working as stage designers and landscape painters in various provincial towns, ending up in Vladimir.
    • Each year the Salon, in addition to new pictures by contemporary painters, included exhibitions by older masters whose influence remained strong.
    • Liao is known for his comic cartoon work and others include sculptors, oil painters and print artists.
    • Discuss with your students how such minimalist painters could influence an artist who uses color and light in such an expressive variety.
    • He is a painter, cartoonist, landscape artist and filmmaker who has been living in the capital for more than fifteen years.
    • There's even an artist - a painter to keep an illustrated record of the trip.
    • In another era, many of these artists would have been landscape painters.
    • Her artists range across ages, levels of experience, and focus, with graphic designers, painters, tattoo artists, and more represented.
    • An artist-in-residence has been teaching the children about artists and painters 50 years ago.
    • He felt that painters and artists should not be content with traditional themes.
    • Engineers and architects use spatial intelligence, as do visual artists like sculptors and painters.
    • She also exhibited as a painter and sculptor and illustrated the several books she wrote on her life and work.
  • 2A person whose job is painting buildings.

    a self-employed painter and decorator
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A painter's tack rag or turpentine-dampened rag will help pick up much of this dirt.
    • Working manfully through the tower of invoices and feeding their details into the computer, he reflected upon the frustrating job held by the painters of the Forth bridge, and decided they had it easy.
    • A painter agreed to paint the entire of the owner's house for a fixed sum.
    • But Jim, a retired painter and decorator, never fancied his own chances in front of the camera.
    • Volunteers became painters and decorators to mark the re-launch of a community action group.
    • Instead, after working as a painter and decorator, he joined the police.
    • And he heard it from a servant in the building where the painter lives.
    • Annie worked as a burler and mender and Roy became a self-employed painter and decorator, which saw him through to retirement.
    • Catherine's partner Geoff, 41, is a self-employed painter and decorator and can also help out with childcare.
    • Police are now on the verge of allowing painters, plumbers, decorators and joiners into the house to begin clearing up and repairing fittings damaged during the extensive examination of the house.
    • Louise wants to work in computers, Andy as a painter and decorator.
    • The work was done by both professional fancy painters and amateur home decorators.
    • Masons became builders; painters became contractors; speculating became an industry, and small business fancied up itself into an association.
    • Social experts have also suggested that these people have the potential to be trained and used as either garden workers or painters.
    • Indeed, one new report says that we will have to import painters and decorators from abroad by 2020 if trends continue.
    • Since you are worried that your second bedroom ‘will not last’ Hillary suggests you get the painters in and redecorate it, and don't answer your phone.
    • Inevitably, then, some people under the proposed age limit will require spray paints for apprenticeships and business such as painters, builders and mechanics, as well as for personal use.
    • What surprises me a lot is, even the workers decorating my house have their mobiles - the em>painters, the decorators, the mason, the electricity, and the carpenter.
    • He was a trained painter and decorator with a steady job and a loving family.
    • The building is being renovated with carpenters, painters and maintenance workers moving all over.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French peintour, based on Latin pictor, from the verb pingere 'to paint'.

painter2

noun ˈpeɪntəˈpeɪn(t)ər
  • A rope attached to the bow of a boat for tying it to a quay.

    艇首缆,系艇索

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He doesn't have a painter on his boat [a painter being a rope attached to the bow/front of the boat] despite it being a normal fitting, and his boat having the hole through which it should run.
    • Just as the sun was about to go down, a slight tug on the painter ended my solitude.
    • Toby leapt ashore with the painter and dropped a clove-hitch over a tree stump with two twists of his wrists.
    • Reaching up, I tied the painter to her stern, attaching my lifeline, my umbilicus, to my own boat.
    • If I squinted my eyes tight enough, I could also see the cleat near the stern where I used to attach the painter from the punt.

Origin

Middle English: of uncertain origin; compare with Old French pentoir 'something from which to hang things'.

painter3

noun ˈpeɪntəˈpeɪn(t)ər
US dialect
  • another term for puma
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma.

Origin

Mid 18th century: variant spelling of panther.

painter1

nounˈpeɪn(t)ərˈpān(t)ər
  • 1An artist who paints pictures.

    画家

    a German landscape painter

    德国风景画家。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Our city is renowned for its historic interest but little is known about its wealth of artists, which includes painters, potters, photographers, weavers and printmakers.
    • Her artists range across ages, levels of experience, and focus, with graphic designers, painters, tattoo artists, and more represented.
    • An artist-in-residence has been teaching the children about artists and painters 50 years ago.
    • In another era, many of these artists would have been landscape painters.
    • Even at the first glance, almost all the paintings on display betray the meditative mood of the painter when the artist was at work.
    • Both look at the whole working careers of the artists, and both artists are key painters in the British figurative tradition.
    • By the time he was 40, he stopped producing commercial art and became a painter of pictures and illustrations.
    • She also exhibited as a painter and sculptor and illustrated the several books she wrote on her life and work.
    • Engineers and architects use spatial intelligence, as do visual artists like sculptors and painters.
    • Born in 1872, he aspired to become a landscape painter, but realized that a career in book illustrations would be more lucrative.
    • Discuss with your students how such minimalist painters could influence an artist who uses color and light in such an expressive variety.
    • He felt that painters and artists should not be content with traditional themes.
    • He is a painter, cartoonist, landscape artist and filmmaker who has been living in the capital for more than fifteen years.
    • Each year the Salon, in addition to new pictures by contemporary painters, included exhibitions by older masters whose influence remained strong.
    • There's even an artist - a painter to keep an illustrated record of the trip.
    • Unfortunately however, they were the only landscapes that painters and illustrators were in the habit of imagining.
    • Liao is known for his comic cartoon work and others include sculptors, oil painters and print artists.
    • They are usually painted by nonacademic artists and unknown painters.
    • Showing alongside this exhibition is a collection of works by French landscape painters who inspired Monet's work, including Corot and Courbet.
    • The two of them spent their lives working as stage designers and landscape painters in various provincial towns, ending up in Vladimir.
  • 2A person who paints buildings, walls, ceilings, and woodwork, especially as a job.

    油漆匠

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A painter agreed to paint the entire of the owner's house for a fixed sum.
    • Annie worked as a burler and mender and Roy became a self-employed painter and decorator, which saw him through to retirement.
    • Instead, after working as a painter and decorator, he joined the police.
    • He was a trained painter and decorator with a steady job and a loving family.
    • What surprises me a lot is, even the workers decorating my house have their mobiles - the em>painters, the decorators, the mason, the electricity, and the carpenter.
    • But Jim, a retired painter and decorator, never fancied his own chances in front of the camera.
    • Inevitably, then, some people under the proposed age limit will require spray paints for apprenticeships and business such as painters, builders and mechanics, as well as for personal use.
    • And he heard it from a servant in the building where the painter lives.
    • Police are now on the verge of allowing painters, plumbers, decorators and joiners into the house to begin clearing up and repairing fittings damaged during the extensive examination of the house.
    • Louise wants to work in computers, Andy as a painter and decorator.
    • A painter's tack rag or turpentine-dampened rag will help pick up much of this dirt.
    • Social experts have also suggested that these people have the potential to be trained and used as either garden workers or painters.
    • Catherine's partner Geoff, 41, is a self-employed painter and decorator and can also help out with childcare.
    • Since you are worried that your second bedroom ‘will not last’ Hillary suggests you get the painters in and redecorate it, and don't answer your phone.
    • Masons became builders; painters became contractors; speculating became an industry, and small business fancied up itself into an association.
    • Indeed, one new report says that we will have to import painters and decorators from abroad by 2020 if trends continue.
    • Working manfully through the tower of invoices and feeding their details into the computer, he reflected upon the frustrating job held by the painters of the Forth bridge, and decided they had it easy.
    • The work was done by both professional fancy painters and amateur home decorators.
    • The building is being renovated with carpenters, painters and maintenance workers moving all over.
    • Volunteers became painters and decorators to mark the re-launch of a community action group.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French peintour, based on Latin pictor, from the verb pingere ‘to paint’.

painter2

nounˈpeɪn(t)ərˈpān(t)ər
  • A rope attached to the bow of a boat for tying it to a quay.

    艇首缆,系艇索

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Just as the sun was about to go down, a slight tug on the painter ended my solitude.
    • Reaching up, I tied the painter to her stern, attaching my lifeline, my umbilicus, to my own boat.
    • He doesn't have a painter on his boat [a painter being a rope attached to the bow/front of the boat] despite it being a normal fitting, and his boat having the hole through which it should run.
    • Toby leapt ashore with the painter and dropped a clove-hitch over a tree stump with two twists of his wrists.
    • If I squinted my eyes tight enough, I could also see the cleat near the stern where I used to attach the painter from the punt.

Origin

Middle English: of uncertain origin; compare with Old French pentoir ‘something from which to hang things’.

painter3

nounˈpeɪn(t)ərˈpān(t)ər
US dialect
  • another term for cougar
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma.

Origin

Mid 18th century: variant spelling of panther.

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