What's the difference between paint and varnish?

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.

Varnish


Definition:

  • (n.) A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.
  • (n.) That which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance.
  • (n.) An artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct; outside show; gloss.
  • (n.) To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting.
  • (n.) To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prolonged coating duration from 24 hours to 1 week did not increase uptake and penetration of fluoride from both varnishes.
  • (2) The varnish seemed to be better with respect to the posology as the total dose of miconazole is minimal and only one application is necessary.
  • (3) In methods A and B the round biopsy field was bordered by copalite varnish, while method C utilized a scotch tape border.
  • (4) The unesterified resins are mainly used in paper size and the esters in printing inks, varnishes and adhesives.
  • (5) A clinical and radiographic examination of all children was performed immediately prior to the first application of varnish and 1 year later.
  • (6) Three applications of 2.3% Duraphat were slightly more effective than any of the other varnish treatments, but one treatment with 2.3% varnish was not more effective than treatments with 1.1% varnish.
  • (7) The preliminary treatment with a copal-ether varnish (Copalite) was of insignificant value.
  • (8) Forty molar and premolar teeth had non-retentive cavities prepared and restored with amalgam using (1) copal varnish (control), (2) a pin, (3) Amalgambond or (4) Panavia-Ex.
  • (9) Duraphat varnish was topically applied for 6 hours to the air dried surfaces of ten teeth (group 1).
  • (10) The sealing abilities of three therapeutic varnishes were compared with that of a conventional copal varnish in vitro under Tytin silver amalgam restorations.
  • (11) British Cycling under the spotlight after Jess Varnish allegations Read more Opening up right now are big opportunities for women’s sport and its sponsors.
  • (12) After storage in 100% humidity at 37 degrees C for 48 h, the root surfaces were coated with nail varnish (except at the apex) and placed in 2% methylene blue dye solution and centrifuged at 3 x g for 3 min.
  • (13) The caries preventive effect of topical application of fluoride varnish (Duraphat), ferric-aluminum-fluoride solution (FeAlF) and chlorhexidine gel was compared in 2-yr clinical study.
  • (14) The varnish also serves as a guide to facilitate removal of excess resin beyond the cavosurface margin.
  • (15) After the long-term administration of doxilane-diolane, cresacin, antioxidant S-1 and fluorine varnish to mongrel albino rats and mice no difference in the level of spontaneous tumours both in the control and experimental groups of animals was observed.
  • (16) Fluoride varnishes are clinically effective but have not been shown to be superior to topical solutions or gels.
  • (17) Since then, the ink, manufactured only by Mysore Paints and Varnish, has been used in every local and national Indian election, as well as in key elections across the world, including in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • (18) The stylish, varnished wooden interior and whitewashed walls has a slightly Danish feel, but General Merchant’s brunch-y, all-day menu is inspired by Australian cafe culture, where good coffee and pan-global fusion plates are the norm.
  • (19) Southern viewers may occasionally require a translator, for moments such as when one girl explains she doesn't want to take off her nail varnish because her hands will look "proper scratty" (scruffy).
  • (20) When cavity varnish use was compared with no use of cavity varnish, significantly less microleakage was noted with the nonburnished control, single-burnish, and double-burnish techniques utilizing the cavity varnish.