Norwegian English Dictionary

Norsk - English

maling in English:

1. paint paint


painting nails
My grandfather had completed the wood work and my grandmother finished the piece with paint.
To paint a bird, start by painting a cage with an open door.
Did you know that if you mixed red and blue paint you obtained purple?
If you paint it yellow, you'll kill two birds with one stone: it'll stand out, and you'll save money because you can use paint you already have.
So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.
He was a pitiable spectacle of neglect and wretchedness as he sat there on an upturned pail, eating his bread and cheese with fingers that, like his clothing, were grimed with paint and dirt.
If I could draw well, I would paint pictures in "Where is Waldo?"-style, but leave out Waldo.
Oil on canvas can never paint a petal so delicate.
We should lay on a second coat of paint for better protection against the weather.
You have to paint the whole house all by yourself? You sure have your work cut out for you.
Picasso painted Guernica in 1937.
We found paint chips under her fingernails.
a coloured liquid that you put on a surface to change its colour or that you use for making a picture. a set of small blocks or tubes containing paint of different colours that you use for making pictures
These pictures were all painted by local artists. We've painted the kitchen yellow.