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paintbrush

/ˈpeɪntˌbɹʌʃ/

paintbrush noun: a thin brush for applying paint.

paintbrush: a thin brush for applying paint
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Noun

paintbrush (plural paintbrushes)

  1. A thin brush for applying paint.

paintbrush meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Sanskrit

paintbrush in Hindi

thin brush
तूलिका tūlikā

paintbrush in Tamil

thin brush
தூரிகை tūrikai

paintbrush in Bengali

paintbrush
তুলি tuli

paintbrush in Sanskrit

a paintbrush
वर्तिका vartikā
More languagesFewer languages
paintbrush in Assamese
তুলি tuli, তূলী tuli
paintbrush in Tagalog
pinsel, brotsa
paintbrush in Arabic
فُرْشَاة الطِلَاء
paintbrush in Thai
พู่กัน pûu-gan

Examples of paintbrush in a sentence

  • You can use the paintbrush this way to run the colors into each other.
  • He shows me how to lay off the paint — and moves his paintbrush across the section he had already painted, again and again.
  • It uses a robotic arm, purchased online and re-programmed, with an attached paintbrush.

All 10 example sentences with paintbrush

Forms of paintbrush

pluralpaintbrushes

Plural of paintbrush: paintbrushes

Origin of paintbrush

From paint + brush.

Words formed from paintbrush

Questions about paintbrush

What does paintbrush mean?
Paintbrush means a thin brush for applying paint.
What is paintbrush in Hindi?
Paintbrush in Hindi is तूलिका (tūlikā). See Paintbrush meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is paintbrush?
Paintbrush is a noun.
How do you pronounce paintbrush?
Paintbrush is pronounced /ˈpeɪntˌbɹʌʃ/.
What is the plural of paintbrush?
The plural of paintbrush is paintbrushes.

Words near paintbrush in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paintbrush (page history and authors); তুলি (Bengali) (page history and authors); वर्तिका (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); তুলি (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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