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# painted

verb past and past participle (paint, paints, painted, painting); adjective (painted)

«painted» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Painted is the past form of paint: colour was put on it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#m1)
2. Painted means made as a picture with paint: «She painted a horse». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#m2)
3. Painted describes something covered in paint: a painted fence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#m3)
4. Painted can also mean false or pretended, covering up what is really there. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#m4)

### In the lessons

In maths: an action already done: things painted so far, or what is still to paint; painted faces of cubes. In art and everyday life: a painted wall, painted nails. In science: animals with «painted» patterns, like the painted lady butterfly. In stories: «the painted door».

### Examples

- She painted 5 of the 12 walls. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x1)
- He painted 3 pictures yesterday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x2)
- How many walls are not painted yet? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x3)
- The painted fence is 20 meters long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x4)
- The children painted the classroom door bright red. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x5)
- A painted lady is a kind of butterfly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x6)
- The big cube is painted on all sides and cut into small cubes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x7)
- Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x8)
- They went home painted victors and loud-voiced singers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/#x9)

### Note

What is painted is done; what is left = total − painted. Trap: «painted» and «not painted» add up to the total. In cube puzzles, count painted faces carefully: corner cubes have 3, edge cubes 2.

## In Jewish tradition

It describes Jezebel who painted her eyes before Jehu came, and a house colored with red paint by an unjust king.

**Interpretation.** Tradition sees Jezebel's act as proud defiance before her death, and the king's fine house as wrong when built on injustice.

### Examples

- And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window. (Prophets 2KI.9.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/painted/#x1)
- That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. (Prophets JER.22.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/painted/#x2)

### Note

What is painted is done; what is left = total − painted. Trap: «painted» and «not painted» add up to the total. In cube puzzles, count painted faces carefully: corner cubes have 3, edge cubes 2.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «painted» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/painted/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«painted» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/painted.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «painted» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/painted/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«painted» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/painted.html) on Mova free.