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repaint en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹiːpeɪnt/
  • rēʹpānt
  • /ɹiːˈpeɪnt/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pinéḱti Proto-Italic *pingō Latin pingō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin pictus Vulgar Latin *pinctus French peint Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Old French peintierder. Middle English peynten English paint English repaint From re- + paint (“verb”).

Meanings

  1. The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.
    • They didn't like the color so we had to do a repaint.
    • More join us at Colwall and at the lovely station at Great Malvern, although the place is in need of some TLC nowadays. The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air. 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
  2. The act of drawing or rendering again on the display.
    • WPF will call your OnRender function when it needs to know what content your visual displays, but the way graphics acceleration works in WPF means that this happens far less often than the equivalent repaints in Win32. 2005, Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths, Programming Windows Presentation Foundation:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
repaints Number=Plur lexicographic

repaint en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹiːpeɪnt/
  • rē-pāntʹ
  • /ɹiːˈpeɪnt/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pinéḱti Proto-Italic *pingō Latin pingō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin pictus Vulgar Latin *pinctus French peint Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Old French peintierder. Middle English peynten English paint English repaint From re- + paint (“verb”).

Meanings

  1. To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.
    • Nearly all of their locomotives have never been repainted, which is as much as 24 years in the case of some of the DB Cargo units. 2022 September 21, “Network News: Freight firms continue repaints on Class 66s”, in RAIL, number 966, page 17:
    • to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture
  2. (ambitransitive) To draw or render again on the display.
    • To force a window to repaint itself programmatically, you call the inherited Invalidate() method[…] 2010, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, page 1551:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
repainting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
repaints Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
repainted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
repainted Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

unrepainted · repainter · repaintable

Translations (17)

fr repeindre (to paint again) · de neu streichen (to paint again) · uk перефарбо́вувати (to paint again) · uk перефарбува́ти (to paint again) · ia repinger (to paint again) · pl przemalowywać (to paint again) · es repintar (to paint again) · ru перекра́шивать (to paint again) · cy ailbeintio (to paint again) · ca repintar (to paint again) · hu újrafest (to paint again) · eo repentri (to paint again) · it ridipingere (to paint again) · cs přemalovat (to paint again) · ru перекра́сить (to paint again) · pl przemalować (to paint again) · eo refarbi (to paint again)