Repaint

Definitions: Repaint

Repaint

Verb

1. Paint again; "He repainted the same scenery many times during his life".

2. Paint again or anew; "We had to repaint the gutters with linseed oil".

3. Paint again.

Date "repaint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Crosswords: Repaint

Specialty definitions using "repaint": MOLD CLEANER. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Repaint

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Photo Album: Repaint

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	Local schoolchildren from the Half Moon Bay area repaint the decoys that were used to attract common murres back to Devil Slide Rock.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		The Mobile Bomb Renovation Plant at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, blasts a Mk 82 500-pound general-purpose bomb. Anderson AFB has 70,000 Mk 82 bombs to repaint using the new renovation tool. (Courtesy photo).
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Repaint

"Repaint" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 62.07% of the time. "Repaint" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	62.07%	18	82,615
Lexical Verb (base form)	20.69%	6	143,867
Noun (singular)	17.24%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	29	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Repaint

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
car repaint	20
repaint	18
repaint furniture	7
doll repaint	5
barbie repaint	5
cabinet kitchen repaint	2
bath repaint tub	2
car cost repaint	2
cabinet repaint	2
fs2002 repaint tutorial	2
auto repaint	2
gene repaint	2
aircraft fs2002 repaint	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Repaint

Language		Translations for "repaint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rilyej (do over). (various references)

Bulgarian		пребоядисвам (dye over again, redecorate). (various references)

Chinese		重漆 (refinish). (various references)

Czech		přemalovat (do smth. over). (various references)

Finnish		maalata uudelleen (paint over). (various references)

French		repeindre (redecorate). (various references)

German		übermalen (overdraw, over-paint, paint out, paint over). (various references)

Greek		χρωματίζω πάλι. (various references)

Hungarian		átfest (overdye, paint over, to discolour). (various references)

Italian		riverniciare, ridipingere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		塗り替える (to repaint). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぬりかえる (to repaint). (various references)

Manx		aapheintal. (various references)

Pig Latin		epaintray

Romanian		vopsi din nou. (various references)

Russian		ремонт (overhaul, refit, repair, upkeep). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prefarbati (dye over again, over-paint). (various references)

Spanish		repintar. (various references)

Turkish		rötuş yapmak (finish, retouch, touch up), yeniden boyamak (redye), üzerine başka resim yapmak. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Repaint

Derivations
	Words beginning with "repaint": repainted, repainting, repaints. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Repaint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jerpoint, Neopaint, redpoint, repai, repaing, repoint, Reppion, reptain. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Repaint"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "repaint" (pronounced rēpā"nt)
4	-p ā" n t	paint.
3	-ā" n t	acquaint, complaint, constraint, faint, feint, quaint, restraint, Saint, taint.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Repaint

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: painter, pertain.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: arpent, enrapt, entrap, panier, pantie, parent, patine, pineta, pirate, pterin, rapine, ratine, retain, retina, trepan.
	-2 letters: antre, apter, arpen, atrip, entia, inapt, inept, inert, inter, irate, niter, nitre, paint, paten, pater, patin, peart, pieta, pinta, prate, print, repin, retia, riant, ripen, taper, tapir, tenia, terai, tinea, train, trine, tripe.
	-3 letters: airn, airt, ante.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: antirape, aperient, atropine, dipteran, interlap, painters, paintier, pantries, perianth, pertains, pinaster, pretrain, pristane, repaints, retaping, tapering, terrapin, trapline, triplane, triptane.
	+2 letters: antipress, aperients, appertain, atropines, carpeting, crepitant, departing, dipterans, implanter, interlaps, interplay, operating, operation, painterly, paltering, parenting, pargeting, paternity, patienter, patronise, patronize, pattering, perianths, perinatal, peritonea, pertained, pinasters, pistareen, preacting, predating, predation, pretaping, pretorian, pretrains, printable, printhead, pristanes, protamine, reappoint, reimplant, repainted, repasting, repeating, replating, reptilian, sparteine, spearmint, tampering, terrapins, threaping, transpire, trapesing, traplines, trepidant, triplanes, triptanes, uptearing.
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