painter ~ painter
[the same pronunciation; for the right pronunciation, please click here.]
building painter
“Painter” (noun) is ‘a person (an artist) who paints pictures; a person who applies paint (colours) to buildings as a job’,
e.g.
My brother is a portrait painter. [i.e. he paints people’s pictures – an artist]
A painter must know how to mix different paints to get suitable hues.
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“Painter”, for the right pronunciation, please click here,
(noun) is ‘a length of strong rope used for tying a small boat to a ship or to a pole on the ground’,
This word is probably from the French word ‘pentoir‘ which means ‘a strong rope’.
e.g.
Some time during the storm, the painter of my boat came loose and my boat drifted away.
