repaint
/ɹiːˈpeɪnt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "To force a window to repaint itself programmatically, you call the inherited Invalidate() method[…]"
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pinéḱti Proto-Italic *pingō Latin pingō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin pictus Vulgar Latin *pinctus French peint Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Old French peintierder. Middle English peynten English paint English repaint From re- + paint (“verb”).