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单词 airbrush
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Definition of airbrush in English:

airbrush

noun ˈɛːbrʌʃˈɛrˌbrəʃ
  • An artist's device for spraying paint by means of compressed air.

    (用压缩空气在表面上喷洒颜料的)气笔,气刷

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The other innovation was to use a spray instead of brush for painting, rather different from using an airbrush, he says.
    • From his father he had learned the use of the airbrush and this now became the principal tool of his trade.
    • Bear Air Express is the world's largest supplier of airbrushes and airbrush-related products.
    • These pens feature a unique mouthpiece, which when blown into, sprays ink in the same manner as an airbrush.
    • And makeup artists are already experimenting with airbrushes, misting their clients' faces with thin glazes that don't look too pancakey.
    • Often the seams were concealed by painting with airbrushes.
    • In fact, Kimble admits that racing led him to his biggest crossroad in life, deciding whether to pursue a career behind the wheel or behind an airbrush.
    • For some years he had worked in the advertising field as a mechanical draftsman, and he had learned, among other techniques, the use of the airbrush.
    • Then I cobbled it together in a painting using an airbrush and masking film.
    • Next, ‘age’ the inscription using an airbrush filled with quartz powder, before creating its ‘ancient’ patina by grinding stone into a watery paste.
    • After politics I can go home and have a look at some compressors for my airbrush.
    • We basically sprayed acrylic paint around their eyes with an airbrush and painted the eyes.
    • Soft focus and an airbrush can do wonders for your appearance.
    • Visually retreating to an indeterminate distance are soft-focus spots or clouds of unbroken color clunkily applied with an airbrush.
    • Helnwein's paintings, however, are based on his photographs, which he transfers onto canvas using an airbrush, inkjet printing or, at times, traditional paintbrushes.
    • Using an undercoat by spattering acrylics, I finish off the surface of the sculpture with oil paints with the aid of an airbrush.
    • All paints sprayed through an airbrush must have the consistency of milk.
    • Using airbrush, spray paint, glitter and acrylic, she depicts subjects ranging from a military operation in Iraq to a piece of Chinese porcelain, in a kind of fuzzy, watercolorish manner.
    • The dots are produced by bursts from an airbrush.
    • A ten to 15-minute session, using an airbrush to spray the substance on the skin, causes the tan to develop over the next 24 hours and it lasts between five and ten days.
verb ˈɛːbrʌʃˈɛrˌbrəʃ
[with object]
  • 1Paint with an airbrush.

    用气笔作画

    the cab was airbrushed with a mural of a sunset

    喷画有落日的出租车。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This particular 1987 Porsche 924 had a tiger-woman airbrushed onto the side of it.
    • Yokosuka's Morale, Welfare and Recreation department is responsible for providing Tanner with the opportunity to paint and airbrush different buildings around the base.
    • Then they spray me down, they airbrush the rest of me with blue makeup.
    • The work's neon-bright surfaces range from the impeccably airbrushed to lumpy aquarium rocks drenched in paint and glued on.
    • The clouds shone like they were airbrushed gold, while the sky around them was a mix of dark blue and a golden magenta.
    • On each side a jumping dolphin had been airbrushed beautifully along the groove of the helmet.
    • To create a uniform appearance for photography, the material was blackened either with black impermanent ink airbrushed onto the actual fossils, or by using lampblack or other dry colored powder dusted onto the silicone rubber cast.
    • Each field is built up of gesso, each layer sanded to a flawless finish, the last one airbrushed smoother than any shell.
    • In some spots, these self-consciously gestural strokes have been airbrushed blue.
    • While walking with Raymond, an inmate suggested airbrushing a giant mural of Jesus on the side of the prison.
    • The series includes special graphics designed by James and personally airbrushed by one of California's top artists.
    • I had it sprayed gold and the art work airbrushed onto the side panels.
    • Here the same thing is happening - less spectacularly, more subtly - as in the pictures by popular fantasy artists, who airbrush imaginary landscapes and populate them with monsters and buxom ladies.
    • After he was airbrushed with silver paint, he lay down in the pool for the overhead photo and hooked his legs around an aluminum pool rail.
    • The ship's machine shop was occupied alternately by everyone airbrushing the paint onto their armor for the next six hours.
    • The medium is the enamel airbrushed on a prepared surface of cement and other materials.
    Synonyms
    colour, apply paint to, decorate, tint, dye, stain, distemper, whitewash, emulsion, gloss, spray, spray-paint, roller, coat, cover
    daub, smear, plaster, spray, spray-paint
    1. 1.1 Alter or conceal (a photograph or a detail in one) using an airbrush.
      用气笔修改,掩盖(照片或照片中某部分)
      a picture of a man with wings airbrushed on to his shoulders

      在他肩膀上用气笔画上双翅的人像。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I've had hours of makeup and hair and good lighting and then the photos are airbrushed.
      • Being photographed for magazines myself, I know that they airbrush you and they make you look much better than you do in real life.
      • Her photo had been so airbrushed, with two ribs removed and legs lengthened, she didn't recognise herself.
      • That's because, these days, almost every photo is digitally enhanced - or airbrushed - to make the model appear flawless.
      • Which is fine by me, but don't believe the airbrushed photos or footage from 20 years ago of her.
      • It's not just fancy makeup, photography or airbrushing; her spirit shines through all of it!
      • In terms of photography and airbrushing, this ad is excellent.
      • interns, why can't they get their campaign photos airbrushed?
      • The cover photo showed Michael in closeup, his eyes airbrushed blue.
      • Jason had finished Isabel's airbrushed photo and I was back online.
      • Can we airbrush out that newspaper tacked onto the skirting boards, please?
      • Photography studios that specialize in school photos are now offering airbrushing and retouching services to interested students.
      • She looked great - there's no airbrushing done of this woman's photos.
      • In fact, she airbrushed half of that pimple away so you can still see a little bit of it.
      • It reminds me of Stalin airbrushing Trotsky out of the photos.
      • But not nearly so, um, airbrushed as she is in photographs.
      • I'd just ceded my computer hours to Jason so he could airbrush hundreds of scars out of a photograph of an eight year old girl who was still somehow convinced that she was a princess, somehow convinced that everything was going to get better.
      • Does anyone remember that pledge card - that little credit card with the airbrushed photo of the Prime Minister?
      • First, take a look at Darren's blog to see his work on airbrushing my family photos.
      • The photo shows me aloft (they airbrushed the photograph to camouflage the torn clothing).
    2. 1.2 Represent or describe as better or more beautiful than in reality.
      〈喻〉粉饰
      many lived through the disasters and know that the past has been airbrushed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But since governments also occasionally do the same, likewise claiming to act with the sanction of the people, both parties are united sooner or later in the resolve to airbrush such realities out of the record.
      • In airbrushing the brutality of slavery, we make it possible to ignore the tremendous power that race had - and continues to have - in shaping this society.
      • She does not try to airbrush his flaws nor does she indulge in pop psychology.
      • In contrast one of the most important dates in English history - one which represents one of the greatest catastrophes ever to befall an English monarch - has been airbrushed from national consciousness.
      • I've stated my views before, but I think it is dangerous for the future if we too easily airbrush the major errors of the past.
      • It also seems honest, not some airbrushed MTV stylised version of youth and, of course, it's really funny.
      • Her voice might be sweet like chocolate but she's more concerned with the bruising reality of real-life relationships than the airbrushed fantasy-land favoured by your usual hooting divas.
      • It is here that Kundera points to the tyranny of totalitarian power which airbrushes the past to control the future, so that questions and issues that might be raised are mocked out of existence.
      • This Government believes in airbrushing history.
      • A nation where the unpleasant aspects of human existence are simply airbrushed away.
      • In fact it was quite cheering in many ways, that the past isn't just airbrushed away.
      • Herzog subtly chronicles this mighty, pathos-laden struggle, treating it with the seriousness it deserves without airbrushing its blind moments or gestures of excess.
      • Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
      • Although the press airbrushed the problem out of the picture during the economic euphoria of the late 1990s, the trade deficits never went away.

Rhymes

hairbrush

Definition of airbrush in US English:

airbrush

nounˈerˌbrəSHˈɛrˌbrəʃ
  • An artist's device for spraying paint by means of compressed air.

    (用压缩空气在表面上喷洒颜料的)气笔,气刷

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In fact, Kimble admits that racing led him to his biggest crossroad in life, deciding whether to pursue a career behind the wheel or behind an airbrush.
    • The dots are produced by bursts from an airbrush.
    • From his father he had learned the use of the airbrush and this now became the principal tool of his trade.
    • After politics I can go home and have a look at some compressors for my airbrush.
    • Then I cobbled it together in a painting using an airbrush and masking film.
    • Next, ‘age’ the inscription using an airbrush filled with quartz powder, before creating its ‘ancient’ patina by grinding stone into a watery paste.
    • The other innovation was to use a spray instead of brush for painting, rather different from using an airbrush, he says.
    • All paints sprayed through an airbrush must have the consistency of milk.
    • We basically sprayed acrylic paint around their eyes with an airbrush and painted the eyes.
    • Using an undercoat by spattering acrylics, I finish off the surface of the sculpture with oil paints with the aid of an airbrush.
    • Visually retreating to an indeterminate distance are soft-focus spots or clouds of unbroken color clunkily applied with an airbrush.
    • Helnwein's paintings, however, are based on his photographs, which he transfers onto canvas using an airbrush, inkjet printing or, at times, traditional paintbrushes.
    • A ten to 15-minute session, using an airbrush to spray the substance on the skin, causes the tan to develop over the next 24 hours and it lasts between five and ten days.
    • And makeup artists are already experimenting with airbrushes, misting their clients' faces with thin glazes that don't look too pancakey.
    • Using airbrush, spray paint, glitter and acrylic, she depicts subjects ranging from a military operation in Iraq to a piece of Chinese porcelain, in a kind of fuzzy, watercolorish manner.
    • Soft focus and an airbrush can do wonders for your appearance.
    • Often the seams were concealed by painting with airbrushes.
    • Bear Air Express is the world's largest supplier of airbrushes and airbrush-related products.
    • These pens feature a unique mouthpiece, which when blown into, sprays ink in the same manner as an airbrush.
    • For some years he had worked in the advertising field as a mechanical draftsman, and he had learned, among other techniques, the use of the airbrush.
verbˈerˌbrəSHˈɛrˌbrəʃ
[with object]
  • 1Paint with an airbrush.

    用气笔作画

    the cab was airbrushed with a mural of a sunset

    喷画有落日的出租车。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While walking with Raymond, an inmate suggested airbrushing a giant mural of Jesus on the side of the prison.
    • The series includes special graphics designed by James and personally airbrushed by one of California's top artists.
    • Here the same thing is happening - less spectacularly, more subtly - as in the pictures by popular fantasy artists, who airbrush imaginary landscapes and populate them with monsters and buxom ladies.
    • To create a uniform appearance for photography, the material was blackened either with black impermanent ink airbrushed onto the actual fossils, or by using lampblack or other dry colored powder dusted onto the silicone rubber cast.
    • This particular 1987 Porsche 924 had a tiger-woman airbrushed onto the side of it.
    • I had it sprayed gold and the art work airbrushed onto the side panels.
    • Each field is built up of gesso, each layer sanded to a flawless finish, the last one airbrushed smoother than any shell.
    • The work's neon-bright surfaces range from the impeccably airbrushed to lumpy aquarium rocks drenched in paint and glued on.
    • Then they spray me down, they airbrush the rest of me with blue makeup.
    • The medium is the enamel airbrushed on a prepared surface of cement and other materials.
    • The ship's machine shop was occupied alternately by everyone airbrushing the paint onto their armor for the next six hours.
    • The clouds shone like they were airbrushed gold, while the sky around them was a mix of dark blue and a golden magenta.
    • Yokosuka's Morale, Welfare and Recreation department is responsible for providing Tanner with the opportunity to paint and airbrush different buildings around the base.
    • On each side a jumping dolphin had been airbrushed beautifully along the groove of the helmet.
    • In some spots, these self-consciously gestural strokes have been airbrushed blue.
    • After he was airbrushed with silver paint, he lay down in the pool for the overhead photo and hooked his legs around an aluminum pool rail.
    Synonyms
    colour, apply paint to, decorate, tint, dye, stain, distemper, whitewash, emulsion, gloss, spray, spray-paint, roller, coat, cover
    daub, smear, plaster, spray, spray-paint
    1. 1.1 Alter or conceal (a photograph or a detail in one) using an airbrush.
      用气笔修改,掩盖(照片或照片中某部分)
      a picture of a man with wings airbrushed onto his shoulders

      在他肩膀上用气笔画上双翅的人像。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • That's because, these days, almost every photo is digitally enhanced - or airbrushed - to make the model appear flawless.
      • The cover photo showed Michael in closeup, his eyes airbrushed blue.
      • It's not just fancy makeup, photography or airbrushing; her spirit shines through all of it!
      • It reminds me of Stalin airbrushing Trotsky out of the photos.
      • But not nearly so, um, airbrushed as she is in photographs.
      • Her photo had been so airbrushed, with two ribs removed and legs lengthened, she didn't recognise herself.
      • In fact, she airbrushed half of that pimple away so you can still see a little bit of it.
      • She looked great - there's no airbrushing done of this woman's photos.
      • Which is fine by me, but don't believe the airbrushed photos or footage from 20 years ago of her.
      • Can we airbrush out that newspaper tacked onto the skirting boards, please?
      • Being photographed for magazines myself, I know that they airbrush you and they make you look much better than you do in real life.
      • Jason had finished Isabel's airbrushed photo and I was back online.
      • Does anyone remember that pledge card - that little credit card with the airbrushed photo of the Prime Minister?
      • In terms of photography and airbrushing, this ad is excellent.
      • Photography studios that specialize in school photos are now offering airbrushing and retouching services to interested students.
      • interns, why can't they get their campaign photos airbrushed?
      • First, take a look at Darren's blog to see his work on airbrushing my family photos.
      • I've had hours of makeup and hair and good lighting and then the photos are airbrushed.
      • The photo shows me aloft (they airbrushed the photograph to camouflage the torn clothing).
      • I'd just ceded my computer hours to Jason so he could airbrush hundreds of scars out of a photograph of an eight year old girl who was still somehow convinced that she was a princess, somehow convinced that everything was going to get better.
    2. 1.2 Represent or describe (someone or something) as better or more beautiful than they in fact are.
      〈喻〉粉饰
      an airbrushed vision of the decade

      被粉饰过的十年梦幻。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
      • Although the press airbrushed the problem out of the picture during the economic euphoria of the late 1990s, the trade deficits never went away.
      • She does not try to airbrush his flaws nor does she indulge in pop psychology.
      • In contrast one of the most important dates in English history - one which represents one of the greatest catastrophes ever to befall an English monarch - has been airbrushed from national consciousness.
      • Herzog subtly chronicles this mighty, pathos-laden struggle, treating it with the seriousness it deserves without airbrushing its blind moments or gestures of excess.
      • It also seems honest, not some airbrushed MTV stylised version of youth and, of course, it's really funny.
      • It is here that Kundera points to the tyranny of totalitarian power which airbrushes the past to control the future, so that questions and issues that might be raised are mocked out of existence.
      • In fact it was quite cheering in many ways, that the past isn't just airbrushed away.
      • I've stated my views before, but I think it is dangerous for the future if we too easily airbrush the major errors of the past.
      • Her voice might be sweet like chocolate but she's more concerned with the bruising reality of real-life relationships than the airbrushed fantasy-land favoured by your usual hooting divas.
      • This Government believes in airbrushing history.
      • In airbrushing the brutality of slavery, we make it possible to ignore the tremendous power that race had - and continues to have - in shaping this society.
      • A nation where the unpleasant aspects of human existence are simply airbrushed away.
      • But since governments also occasionally do the same, likewise claiming to act with the sanction of the people, both parties are united sooner or later in the resolve to airbrush such realities out of the record.
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