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painter ~ painter
[the same pronunciation]
“Painter” (noun) is ‘a person (an artist) who paints pictures; a person who applies paint (colours) to buildings as a job’,
a painter painting a picture
e.g.
My brother is a portrait painter. [i.e. he paints people’s pictures – an artist]
A painter must know how to mix different paints to get suitable hues.
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“Painter” (noun) is ‘a length of strong rope used for tying a small boat to a ship or to a pole on the ground’, {This word is probably from the French word ‘pentoir‘ which means ‘a strong rope’.}
(a boat is being tied with its painter)
e.g.
Some time during the storm, the painter of my boat came loose and my boat drifted away.
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