Taint vs. Paint — What's the Difference?

To affect or associate with something undesirable or reprehensible

Paint is any pigmented liquid, liquefiable, or solid mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color, or provide texture to objects.

To expose to an infectious agent, toxin, or undesirable substance

A liquid mixture, usually of a solid pigment in a liquid vehicle, used as a decorative or protective coating.

To subject to decay or putrefaction

The thin dry film formed by such a mixture when applied to a surface.

An undesirable or corrupting influence or association

The solid pigment before it is mixed with a vehicle.

An undesirable quality; a defect or shortcoming

A cosmetic, such as rouge, that is used to give color to the face; makeup.

The perineum.

(Basketball) The free throw lane.

A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.

A Paint horse.

A tinge, trace or touch.

(Slang) The face cards in a deck of cards

A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.

To make (a picture) with paints.

(obsolete) Tincture; hue; colour.

To represent in a picture with paints.

(obsolete) Infection; corruption; deprivation.

To depict vividly in words.

(programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

To coat or decorate with paint

A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

To apply cosmetics to.

An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

To apply medicine to; swab

The perineum.

To shine a laser beam on, especially in order to designate a target for laser-guided munitions.

(transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.

To practice the art of painting pictures.

(transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.

To cover something with paint.

(intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.

To apply cosmetics to oneself

(intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

To serve as a surface to be coated with paint

To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.

A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.

To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

(in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.

(transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

The free-throw lane, construed with the.

(intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

Paintballs.

A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

A face card (king, queen, or jack).

An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.

Tincture; hue; color; tinge.

(uncountable) Makeup.

Infection; corruption; deprivation.

Tattoo work.

A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.

(dated) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.

To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

The appearance of an object on a radar screen.

To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

(transitive) To apply paint to.

To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.

(transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.

To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.

To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.

Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.

(transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.

To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

(transitive) To create (an image) with paints.

To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.

(intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.

Aphetic form of Attaint.

To draw an element in a graphical user interface.

The state of being contaminated

To depict or portray.

Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon;

(intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

Contaminate with a disease or microorganism

To direct a radar beam toward.

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.

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.

To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict; as, to paint a political opponent as a traitor.

To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.

To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

A pigment or coloring substance.

A cosmetic; rouge.

A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating

(basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court;

Makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks

Make a painting;

Apply paint to; coat with paint;

Make a painting of;

Apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil