"trade paint" meaning in English

See trade paint in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: trades paint [present, singular, third-person], trading paint [participle, present], traded paint [participle, past], traded paint [past]
Etymology: When a car or similar vehicle bumps into or scrapes another car, some of the paint may come off. Head templates: {{en-verb|trades paint|trading paint|traded paint|traded paint}} trade paint (third-person singular simple present trades paint, present participle trading paint, simple past and past participle traded paint)
  1. make physical contact between two motorized vehicles while driving
    Sense id: en-trade_paint-en-verb-rw1zkPPV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trade, paint.
    Sense id: en-trade_paint-en-verb-jlZxgWcx

Download JSON data for trade paint meaning in English (2.5kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "When a car or similar vehicle bumps into or scrapes another car, some of the paint may come off.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trades paint",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trading paint",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "traded paint",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "traded paint",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "trades paint",
        "2": "trading paint",
        "3": "traded paint",
        "4": "traded paint"
      },
      "expansion": "trade paint (third-person singular simple present trades paint, present participle trading paint, simple past and past participle traded paint)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Hot Rod, volume 24, Trend, page 38",
          "text": "Petty kept his place at the the pack, and Allison traded paint with Isaac.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Leila Hadley, A Journey with Elsa Cloud, Books & Company/Turtle Point, page 500",
          "text": "Then the bus is gone, juddering past us by such a narrow margin I feel we have “traded paint,” as Robert would have said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Shaun Assael, Wide Open: Days and Nights on the NASCAR Tour, Ballantine Books, page 301",
          "text": "John Andretti was in front of Sterling, who cared no more for John than Bobby did. How long before they traded paint?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Triumph, Dale Earnhardt: Remembering the Intimidator, Triumph Books, page 37",
          "text": "He and friend Jeff Gordon \"traded paint\" at one point during the race. And then there were several instances when The Intimidator nudged rookies Ron Hornaday and Kurt Busch.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Road & Track - Volume 56, CBS Publications, page 160",
          "text": "Not since the 1970s when the best drivers from America traded paint with the elite of Europe have we seen a more remarkable display of driving.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "make physical contact between two motorized vehicles while driving"
      ],
      "id": "en-trade_paint-en-verb-rw1zkPPV"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trade, paint."
      ],
      "id": "en-trade_paint-en-verb-jlZxgWcx",
      "links": [
        [
          "trade",
          "trade#English"
        ],
        [
          "paint",
          "paint#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "trade paint"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "When a car or similar vehicle bumps into or scrapes another car, some of the paint may come off.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "trades paint",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trading paint",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "traded paint",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "traded paint",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "trades paint",
        "2": "trading paint",
        "3": "traded paint",
        "4": "traded paint"
      },
      "expansion": "trade paint (third-person singular simple present trades paint, present participle trading paint, simple past and past participle traded paint)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Hot Rod, volume 24, Trend, page 38",
          "text": "Petty kept his place at the the pack, and Allison traded paint with Isaac.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Leila Hadley, A Journey with Elsa Cloud, Books & Company/Turtle Point, page 500",
          "text": "Then the bus is gone, juddering past us by such a narrow margin I feel we have “traded paint,” as Robert would have said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Shaun Assael, Wide Open: Days and Nights on the NASCAR Tour, Ballantine Books, page 301",
          "text": "John Andretti was in front of Sterling, who cared no more for John than Bobby did. How long before they traded paint?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Triumph, Dale Earnhardt: Remembering the Intimidator, Triumph Books, page 37",
          "text": "He and friend Jeff Gordon \"traded paint\" at one point during the race. And then there were several instances when The Intimidator nudged rookies Ron Hornaday and Kurt Busch.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Road & Track - Volume 56, CBS Publications, page 160",
          "text": "Not since the 1970s when the best drivers from America traded paint with the elite of Europe have we seen a more remarkable display of driving.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "make physical contact between two motorized vehicles while driving"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trade, paint."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trade",
          "trade#English"
        ],
        [
          "paint",
          "paint#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "trade paint"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.