'Painter' definitions:
Definition of 'painter'
(from WordNet)
noun
An artist who paints
noun
A worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
noun
A line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)
noun
Large American feline resembling a lion [syn: cougar, puma, catamount, mountain lion, painter, panther, Felis concolor]
Definition of 'Painter'
From: GCIDE
- Painter \Paint"er\, n. [Corrupt. of panther.] (Zool.) The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.] --J. F. Cooper. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Painter'
From: GCIDE
- Painter \Paint"er\ (p[=a]nt"[~e]r), n. [OE, pantere a noose, snare, F. panti[`e]re, LL. panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. panqh`ra; pa^s all + qh`r beast; cf. Ir. painteir a net, gin, snare, Gael. painntear.] (Naut.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Painter'
From: GCIDE
- Painter \Paint"er\, n. [See 1st Paint.] One whose occupation is to paint; esp.: (a) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint. (b) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- Painter's colic. (Med.) See Lead colic, under Colic.
- Painter stainer. (a) A painter of coats of arms. --Crabb. (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'painter'
From: GCIDE
- Puma \Pu"ma\ (p[=u]"m[.a]), n. [Peruv. puma.] (Zool.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, {mountain lion}, and panther or painter. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'painter'
From: GCIDE
- Poonah painting \Poo"nah paint`ing\ [From Poona, in Bombay Province, India.] A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work.
- Note: Hence:
- Poonah brush,
- paper,
- painter, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'painter'
From: GCIDE
- Boat \Boat\ (b[=o]t), n. [OE. boot, bat, AS. b[=a]t; akin to Icel. b[=a]tr, Sw. b[*a]t, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. Bateau.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped. [1913 Webster]
- Advice boat. See under Advice.
- Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. --Totten.
- Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter.
- In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] --F. W. Newman. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'painter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aquarellist,
- Bacon,
- Bellows,
- Benton,
- bobcat,
- Botticelli,
- Boucher,
- Buffet,
- Cassatt,
- cat-a-mountain,
- catamount,
- cheetah,
- Chirico,
- colorist,
- Constable,
- Copley,
- Corot,
- Correggio,
- cougar,
- Courbet,
- Daumier,
- David,
- de Kooning,
- Degas,
- Delacroix,
- Dubuffet,
- Duchamp,
- Dufy,
- Eakins,
- El Greco,
- Ensor,
- Feininger,
- Fra Angelico,
- Fragonard,
- Friesz,
- Gainsborough,
- Gauguin,
- Gleizes,
- Goya,
- Graves,
- Greuze,
- Gris,
- Grosz,
- Hals,
- historical painter,
- Hodler,
- Hogarth,
- Homer,
- Hopper,
- Ingres,
- jaguar,
- Kent,
- Kirchner,
- landscapist,
- Leger,
- Leo,
- leopard,
- Limburg,
- lion,
- Lippi,
- luminarist,
- luminist,
- lynx,
- Manet,
- Mantegna,
- Marc,
- Marin,
- marine painter,
- Marquet,
- Masaccio,
- Masolino,
- Masson,
- Michelangelo,
- Millet,
- miniaturist,
- Mondrian,
- Monet,
- monochromist,
- Moses,
- mountain lion,
- Munch,
- Murillo,
- Nolde,
- ocelot,
- oil-colorist,
- Orozco,
- Ozenfant,
- panther,
- pavement artist,
- Picabia,
- Picasso,
- Pissarro,
- polychromist,
- portrait painter,
- portraitist,
- Poussin,
- puma,
- Raphael,
- Redon,
- Rembrandt,
- Remington,
- Riley,
- Rivera,
- Romney,
- Rousseau,
- Ryder,
- Sargent,
- scene painter,
- scenewright,
- scenographer,
- Siberian tiger,
- simba,
- still-life painter,
- tiger,
- Titian,
- Turner,
- Vandyke,
- watercolorist,
- Whistler,
- wildcat,
- Wood
Painter, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Painter, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000) :
246
Housing Units (2000) :
117
Land area (2000) :
0.633974 sq. miles (1.641985 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.633974 sq. miles (1.641985 sq. km)
FIPS code :
60296
Located within :
Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location :
37.585632 N, 75.783445 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
23420
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.