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paintbox

paintbox noun: a box used to hold an artist's paints.

Noun

paintbox (plural paintboxes)

  1. A box used to hold an artist's paints.
  2. (broadly) Computer hardware or software for creating or editing graphics.
    • Nolan visits the Quantel computer laboratory to experiment with its vast digital paintbox.2015, Nancy Underhill, Sidney Nolan: A Life

Forms of paintbox

pluralpaintboxes

Origin of paintbox

From paint + box.

Questions about paintbox

What does paintbox mean?
Paintbox means a box used to hold an artist's paints.
What part of speech is paintbox?
Paintbox is a noun.
What is the plural of paintbox?
The plural of paintbox is paintboxes.

Words near paintbox in the dictionary

  1. paintballed
  2. paintballer
  3. paintballers
  4. paintballing
  5. paintballs
  6. paintbox
  7. paintboxes
  8. paintbrush
  9. paintbrushes
  10. painted
  11. painted a rosy picture

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