"paintpot" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "paint",
        "3": "pot"
      },
      "expansion": "paint + pot",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From paint + pot.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paintpots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "paintpot (plural paintpots)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1885, The Methodist New Connexion Magazine and Evangelical Repository, page 80:",
          "text": "Mr. Ruskin, in a famous libel case, said that a man had no right to throw a paintpot at a canvas and call it a picture.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 59:",
          "text": "At the sight of Bradly up there, staring down at her, she seemed to get the shock of an unprecedented intrusion on her privacy too, and remained gaping up at him, brush in one hand and paint-pot in the other.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, Randolph Goodman, Drama on Stage, page 424:",
          "text": "A fifth man is busied with paintpot and brush. He is kneeling on the ground, painting a strip of canvas […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pot for holding paint."
      ],
      "id": "en-paintpot-en-noun-9ieI4mXh"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Television",
          "orig": "en:Television",
          "parents": [
            "Broadcasting",
            "Mass media",
            "Media",
            "Telecommunications",
            "Culture",
            "Communication",
            "Technology",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 390:",
          "text": "[…] vertical joystick or 'paintpot' may be used, that will pivot hemispherically to any degree within a color circle.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image."
      ],
      "id": "en-paintpot-en-noun-x0-H2gx~",
      "links": [
        [
          "television",
          "television"
        ],
        [
          "lever",
          "lever"
        ],
        [
          "telecine",
          "telecine"
        ],
        [
          "machine",
          "machine"
        ],
        [
          "range",
          "range"
        ],
        [
          "color",
          "color"
        ],
        [
          "image",
          "image"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, television) A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "broadcasting",
        "media",
        "television"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "paint pot"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "paint-pot"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paintpot"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "paint",
        "3": "pot"
      },
      "expansion": "paint + pot",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From paint + pot.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paintpots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "paintpot (plural paintpots)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1885, The Methodist New Connexion Magazine and Evangelical Repository, page 80:",
          "text": "Mr. Ruskin, in a famous libel case, said that a man had no right to throw a paintpot at a canvas and call it a picture.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 59:",
          "text": "At the sight of Bradly up there, staring down at her, she seemed to get the shock of an unprecedented intrusion on her privacy too, and remained gaping up at him, brush in one hand and paint-pot in the other.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, Randolph Goodman, Drama on Stage, page 424:",
          "text": "A fifth man is busied with paintpot and brush. He is kneeling on the ground, painting a strip of canvas […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pot for holding paint."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Television"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 390:",
          "text": "[…] vertical joystick or 'paintpot' may be used, that will pivot hemispherically to any degree within a color circle.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "television",
          "television"
        ],
        [
          "lever",
          "lever"
        ],
        [
          "telecine",
          "telecine"
        ],
        [
          "machine",
          "machine"
        ],
        [
          "range",
          "range"
        ],
        [
          "color",
          "color"
        ],
        [
          "image",
          "image"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, television) A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "broadcasting",
        "media",
        "television"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "paint pot"
    },
    {
      "word": "paint-pot"
    }
  ],
  "word": "paintpot"
}