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Definitions: Airbrush |
AirbrushNoun1. An atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air. Verb1. Paint with an airbrush; "The old car looks like new now that we airbrushed it". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Airbrush |
| Specialty definitions using "airbrush": ARTIST, MANNEQUIN COLORING ♦ COLORER ♦ DECORATOR, MANNEQUIN ♦ FIGURE REFINISHER AND REPAIRER ♦ PAINTER, AIRBRUSH, PAINTER, SIGN ♦ TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATOR. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An airbrush works by passing a stream of fast moving air through a venturi, which creates a negative pressure (suction) that draws paint up from a reservoir. The paint is mixed with the air and blown through a very fine nozzle, which atomises it into tiny droplets. The paint is carried onto the paper or other medium. The operator controls the amount of paint using a variable trigger which opens more or less of the nozzle using a very fine tapered needle. This extremely fine degree of control is what allows an artist to create such smooth blending effects using the device.
The technique allows for the meshing of two or more colors in a seamless way, with one color slowly becoming another color. The images have a floating quality, with undefined edges between colors, and between foreground and background colors.
Airbrushing has long been used to alter photographs in the pre-digital era. In skilled hands it can be used to extensively "doctor" an image. Many photographs of officials from the Stalinist regime show extensive airbrushing, often entire people have been removed. The term "airbrushed out" has come to mean rewriting history to pretend that something was never there.
The airbrush led to the development of the spray gun, a larger, more industrial type of paint applicator used for larger areas. Airbrushing itself started being used on cars in the 1940s to make hot rods, specialty cars and then spread to the general car repainting industry.
Many street artists use airbrushing to create names and pictures for tourists, such as around Jackson Square in New Orleans.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Airbrush."
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| "Airbrush" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.36% of the time. "Airbrush" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.36% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
airbrush | 1,267 | airbrush salon tanning | 41 |
airbrush tanning | 856 | airbrush body art | 39 |
airbrush tan | 203 | airbrush car | 38 |
airbrush art | 197 | custom airbrush | 37 |
airbrush tattoo | 144 | aztec airbrush | 37 |
airbrush make up | 95 | iwata airbrush | 36 |
airbrush supply | 93 | airbrush picture | 35 |
airbrush design | 90 | airbrush murals | 31 |
badger airbrush | 81 | airbrush magazine | 31 |
airbrush t shirt | 77 | airbrush flame | 27 |
airbrush stencil | 72 | motorcycle airbrush | 27 |
airbrush compressor | 65 | airbrush tanning supply | 27 |
airbrush painting | 62 | airbrush sunless tanning | 26 |
airbrush artist | 58 | airbrush tanning solution | 26 |
airbrush paint | 55 | paasche airbrush | 25 |
airbrush kit | 53 | temporary airbrush tattoo | 24 |
airbrush nail design | 53 | shirt airbrush | 24 |
airbrush helmet | 46 | airbrush action | 23 |
airbrush nail | 45 | motorcycle helmet airbrush | 23 |
airbrush technique | 43 | airbrush tanning system | 23 |
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| Language | Translations for "airbrush"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | æ°"刷. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verfspuit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spritzpistole (paint spray, paint sprayer, pistol, spray gun, spray pistol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | festékszóró pisztoly, dukkózó pisztoly. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | aerografo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ã‚¨ãƒ¼ãƒ«å¤§å¦ (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | エアブラシ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airbrushay aerógrafo. (various references) аÑрограф. (various references) aerógrafo (aerograph). (various references) розпилювач (blow-gun, diffuser, duster, nebulizer, pulverizer, sprayer), пульверизатор (atomizer, pulverizer, sprayer, sprinkler, vaporizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "airbrush": airbrushed, airbrushes, airbrushing. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "airbrush": hairbrush. (additional references) | |
Words containing "airbrush": hairbrushes. (additional references) | |
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"Airbrush" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aufbruch, ausbruch, qirrish. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-r-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: airbus, briars, bursar, hubris, sirrah, uraris, urbias. | |
-3 letters: abris, arris, auris, birrs, brash, briar, brush, buhrs, buras, burrs, bursa, habus, hairs, sabir, sahib, shirr, shrub, sirra, subah, surah, surra, urari, urbia. | |
-4 letters: abri, airs, arbs, bars, bash, bias, birr, bras, bris, buhr, bura, burr, burs, bush, habu, hair, hubs, isba, rash, rhus, rias. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-h-i-r-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: hairbrush. | |
+2 letters: airbrushed, airbrushes, herbariums. | |
+3 letters: airbrushing, hairbrushes, rabbitbrush, rhabdovirus. | |
+4 letters: harquebusier. | |
+5 letters: harquebusiers, heartburnings, hyperurbanism, rabbitbrushes, rhabdoviruses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 72 62 72 75 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. .-. -... .-. ..- ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01110010 01100010 01110010 01110101 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i r b r u s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0072 0062 0072 0075 0073 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3575846884878574 |
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