What's the difference between limn and paint?

Limn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush.
  • (v. t.) To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification.
  • (2) Thus, the numbers of ventral horn cells remaining after early amputation is a measure of the numbers of cells in the normal animal that are still independent of the limb (Phase I cells) and hence by subtraction, the other cells (post-Phase I cells) are those that only survive by virtue of having contacted the limn.
  • (3) With the development of new chemolitholytic substances and the crushing of the stone on endoscopic and extracorporal way new perspectives again begin to limn themselves in the conservative treatment of cholelithiasis.
  • (4) I think it is part of Dadd's predilection for double-speak and dangerous puns: "Elimination" contains the word "limn" which is a good word for painting, but also is part of Dadd's habit of decrying painting as pointless and worthless.
  • (5) The imposing limestone monument, crowned by a shiny copper dome and limned with John Steuart Curry’s luminous murals, has just undergone a $325m facelift.
  • (6) However, it limns oneself already that it is possible with its help to establish many endangered persons and patients and to subject them to the primary and secondary prevention.
  • (7) Some, such as a condition of detachment, reminiscent of the archetypal 'blissful indolence' of the lotus-eaters of Greek tradition as limned by the poet Homer, are obvious to the lay observer.
  • (8) There is less accord about whether the frames are pure structural configurations or limnings of meaning.

Paint


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.
  • (v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.
  • (v. t.) To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.
  • (v. t.) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
  • (n.) A pigment or coloring substance.
  • (n.) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.
  • (n.) A cosmetic; rouge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Also on display in the hallway is a painting of Carson with Jesus.
  • (3) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
  • (4) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
  • (5) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (6) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
  • (7) These results indicate that, following a single painting of DNFB onto Langerhans cell-deficient skin, the numbers of Lyt2+ cells do not change significantly, but do change functionally.
  • (8) Case mothers were more likely to report occupational exposure to metals (odds ratio [OR] = 8.0, P = 0.01), petroleum products (OR = 3.7, P = 0.03), and paints or pigments (OR = 3.7, P = 0.05).
  • (9) PT painting resulted in rather higher sensitivity with Triton X-100 than with sodium lauryl sulphate.
  • (10) On the one hand, he has used it as an opportunity to paint Ukip as demonised by a media in hock to the politically correct establishment.
  • (11) A Landolt ring (diameter 43.5 cm; contrast 1:1.5) served as a test stimulus; it was painted on a disc 87 cm in diameter that could be rotated in steps of 45 degrees.
  • (12) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
  • (13) She said it was hard to tell whether the paintings were stolen to order or would be offered on the black market, but added that they would be easy to transport out of Switzerland.
  • (14) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
  • (15) Injuries from paint require emergency surgical débridement and exploration because of the extreme tissue toxicity of the injected material.
  • (16) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
  • (17) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
  • (18) Trauma to the hand caused by injection of paint or grease solvents results in tissue destruction and later necrosis and fibrosis.
  • (19) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
  • (20) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.