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paintpots

paintpots is the plural of paintpot.

Meaning of paintpot

Noun

paintpot (plural paintpots)

  1. A pot for holding paint.
    • Mr. Ruskin, in a famous libel case, said that a man had no right to throw a paintpot at a canvas and call it a picture.1885, The Methodist New Connexion Magazine and Evangelical Repository, page 80
  2. (dated) A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image.
    • […] vertical joystick or 'paintpot' may be used, that will pivot hemispherically to any degree within a color circle.2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 390

Phrases with paintpots

Questions about paintpots

What is paintpots the plural of?
Paintpots is the plural of paintpot.

Words near paintpots in the dictionary

  1. paintmakers
  2. paintmaking
  3. paintover
  4. paintovers
  5. paintpot
  6. paintpots
  7. paintproof
  8. paintress
  9. paintresses
  10. paintrices
  11. paintrix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paintpots (page history and authors); paintpot (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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