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Definition of the noun airbrush
What does airbrush mean as a name of something?
noun - plural: airbrushes
- an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air
Alternative definition of the noun airbrush
- A miniature, handheld paint sprayer, powered by compressed air or other gas, used for delicate, artistic painting, or sometimes retouching of photographs.
Definition of the verb airbrush
What does airbrush mean as a doing word?
verb - inflections: airbrushed | airbrushing | airbrushes
- paint with an airbrush
Alternative definition of the verb airbrush
- To paint using an airbrush.
- To touch up or enhance a photograph, often with intent to mislead.
Airbrush: An airbrush is a small, air-operated tool that sprays various media including ink and dye, but most often paint by a process of nebulization. Spray guns were developed from the airbrush and are still considered a type of airbrush.
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Realistic Painting by Daniel K Tennant
The airbrush is a small pen-sized tool that uses compressed air to spray paint. It was invented in 1893 by Charles...
Auto Body Repair Technology (2014)
by James E. Duffy
Airbrushes An airbrush is a small spray gun designed to do custom painting. It can be used to apply a fine line of paint or to blend paint over a custom pattern when doing complex shapes in a paint job. Refer to Figure 24–52. It is important to ...
Everybody's Complete and Practical Guide by Graham T. Richardson
An airbrush is a sophisticated, adjustable version of a spray can of paint, with fingertip control of the amount of color taken from the liquid reservoir by the air passing through the nozzle (Figs. 8–75). There are, however, two drawbacks: the ...
by Daniel Burrill, Jeffrey Zurschmeide
An airbrush is the preferred method for applying the colored gel coat to the repair, but you can use a Preval sprayer, or even a paint brush, if need be. As we mentioned earlier, gel coat does not surface cure, and it remains tacky where it is ...
Milady Standard Makeup (2012)
by Michelle D’Allaird
AIRBRUSH EQUIPMENT An airbrush is a tool used in conjunction with an air compressor to spray liquids (Figure 16—3). Together, the compressor and the airbrush produce different forms of art from delicate makeup designs on the face to ...
by Peter Lane
AIR-BRUSHING The airbrush is a wonderfully versatile tool. There are many different types available from which to choose one best-suited to the work in hand . The most basic models provide a constant spray pattern but far greater control is ...
Manufacturing Rationality (2002)
The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution by Yehouda A. Shenhav
The airbrush is an instrument that allows painting by means of a flow of pulverized, or atomized, colored liquid. The control of this flow largely depends on the pressure of the air that the pulverization produces, on the consistency of the paint, ...
by Elaine R. S. Hodges, Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (U.S.)
An airbrush is a sophisticated spray gun designed to apply pigmented liquid medium to a surface by means of air pressure. The spray can be controlled to produce the fine lines, soft tonal gradations, translucency, tints, and stippling required in ...
Essential Lightwave 3D 8 (2005)
The Fastest and Easiest Way to Master LightWave by Timothy Albee, Steve Warner, Robin Wood
Map | General | Airbrush is a tool that lets you ...
by Peter Beard
the beauty of the airbrush is that it can be used free hand in a similar way to the graffiti drawings that are common these days. By adjusting its distance from the surface. the airbrush can ...
The Encyclopedia of Nails (2006)
by Jacqui Jefford, Anne Swain
the airbrush. The paint enters the airbrush from the reservoir and is fed x through to the nozzle. When using a lot of colours a smaller cup is much > more convenient than having to keep cleaning a large bottle or cup between h colour changes.
The A to Z Desktop Reference of Photoshop by Philip Andrews
The airbrush moved from the toolbar in Photoshop 7.0 and now appears in the brush tool's options bar. Now you simply choose airbrush as a style and select how you want it to work from the Brush palette. Hold down the mouse and drag it ...
by Gerald W. R. Ward
Airbrush. Hand-held painting instrument, of about the same size as or slightly larger than a pen, that delivers paint in a controlled spray. It is connected to a supply of compressed air by a flexible hose and draws paint from an integral reservoir ...
by Susan Pickering Rothamel
Airbrush 1 . A hand tool that, when using either canned air under pressure or an air compressor, evenly distributes paint, ink, or dye in a fine mist ( Fig. 6). 2. A method of retouching illustrations, black-and-white photos, or color photos, ...
airbrush a tool available in some paint programs that simulates ...
The Encyclopedia of Surfing (2005)
by Matt Warshaw
airbrush Surfboard-coloring method using water- soluble acrylic...
Airbrush designs range from clean and simple to wildly extravagant; the process adds between $20 and $200 to the board's retail cost.
by Oxford Dictionaries,
airbrush noun a device for spraying paint by means of compressed air. •verb paint a ...
airbrush Adevice with anozzle forapplyingpaint with compressed air. airbrush air chamber In water piping, a vertical pipe containing entrapped air to absorb the pressure shock when a valve is ...
by Thomas E. Zurinskas
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by Ian Chilvers
airbrush An instrument for spraying paint or similar substance (ink, dye, varnish) by means of ...
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What's going on up there !
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- Airbrush artist
During the goings-on, this man was working on a new painting.
Photo credit: soycamo
- Airbrush sunset
Again, these colors are pretty accurate, very minimal post editing. Just a beautiful thing to have your tent staked here
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Scrabble value of A1I1R1B3R1U1S1H4
The value of this 8-letter word is 13 points. It is included in the first and second editions of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
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