repaint
/ɹiːˈpeɪnt/
repaint verb: to paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.
Verb
repaint (third-person singular simple present repaints, present participle repainting, simple past and past participle repainted)
- To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.
- to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture
- Nearly all of their locomotives have never been repainted, which is as much as 24 years in the case of some of the DB Cargo units.2022 September 21, “Network News: Freight firms continue repaints on Class 66s”, in RAIL, number 966, page 17
- To draw or render again on the display.
- To force a window to repaint itself programmatically, you call the inherited Invalidate() method[…]2010, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, page 1551
Noun
repaint (plural repaints)
- The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.
- They didn't like the color so we had to do a repaint.
- More join us at Colwall and at the lovely station at Great Malvern, although the place is in need of some TLC nowadays. The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67
- The act of drawing or rendering again on the display.
- WPF will call your OnRender function when it needs to know what content your visual displays, but the way graphics acceleration works in WPF means that this happens far less often than the equivalent repaints in Win32.2005, Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths, Programming Windows Presentation Foundation
repaint meaning in Tamil
repaint in Tamil
- மீண்டும் வண்ணம் பூசு
Examples of repaint in a sentence
- I was really smitten by the color combination, and soon repainted the entire house.
- I devoted this afternoon to repainting my study, and nothing will get in my way.
- All the flaking paint had to be scraped off before repainting; fortunately, it came off easily.
Forms of repaint
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | repaints |
| present participle | repainting |
| past participle | repainted |
| past | repainted |
| Noun | |
| plural | repaints |
Origin of repaint
From re- + paint (“verb”).
Words formed from repaint
Words that rhyme with repaint
Questions about repaint
- What does repaint mean?
- Repaint means to paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.
- What is repaint in Tamil?
- Repaint in Tamil is மீண்டும் வண்ணம் பூசு. See Repaint meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is repaint?
- Repaint can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce repaint?
- Repaint is pronounced /ɹiːˈpeɪnt/.
- What is the past tense of repaint?
- The past tense of repaint is repainted.
Words near repaint in the dictionary
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