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DISTEMPER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("distemper" is a kind of...):

painting (creating a picture with paints)

Derivation:

distemper (paint with distemper)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("distemper" is a kind of...):

painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)

Derivation:

distemper (paint with distemper)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("distemper" is a kind of...):

paint; pigment (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)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An angry and disagreeable mood

Synonyms:

distemper; ill humor; ill humour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("distemper" is a kind of...):

humor; humour; mood; temper (a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distemper"):

moodiness (a sullen gloomy feeling)

choler; crossness; fretfulness; fussiness; irritability; peevishness; petulance (an irritable petulant feeling)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Any of various infectious viral diseases of animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("distemper" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distemper"):

canine distemper (a viral disease of young dogs characterized by high fever and respiratory inflammation)

equine distemper; strangles (an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes)

Derivation:

distemper (paint with distemper)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paint with distemper

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "distemper" is one way to...):

paint (make a painting)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

distemper (a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery)

distemper (a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder)

distemper (any of various infectious viral diseases of animals)

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